Genesis 1:16

God makes the sun, moon, and stars to govern day and night. The greatest cosmic bodies are simply God's creatures, made to serve.

Cross-references · 20

• Ps 136:7–9To him who made the great lights; for his loving kindness endures forever:
• Deut 4:19and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
• Ps 8:3When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;
• Ps 74:16The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.
• Isa 40:26Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, Not one is lacking.
• Ps 148:5Let them praise Yahweh’s name, For he commanded, and they were created.
• Job 38:7when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
• Ps 148:3Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars!
• Isa 13:10For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.
• 1 Cor 15:41There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory.
• Matt 27:45Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
• Hab 3:11The sun and moon stood still in the sky, at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.
• Isa 45:7I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.
• Rev 16:8–9The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire.
• Ps 19:6His going out is from the end of the heavens, his circuit to its ends; There is nothing hidden from its heat.
• Isa 24:23Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of Armies will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and before his elders will be glory.
• Job 31:26if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,
• Matt 24:29But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;
• Rev 21:23The city has no need for the sun, neither of the moon, to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.
• Josh 10:12–14Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel. He said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley of Aijalon!”

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