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• Genesis 1:14

  God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years;

• Genesis 1:15

  and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth”; and it was so.

• Genesis 1:16

  God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.

• Genesis 1:17

  God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth,

• Genesis 1:18

  and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

• Exodus 10:21

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.”

• Exodus 10:22

  Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.

• Exodus 10:23

  They didn’t see one another, and nobody rose from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

• Deuteronomy 4:19

  and 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.

• Deuteronomy 17:3

  and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the stars of the sky, which I have not commanded;

• Joshua 10:12

  Then 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!”

• Joshua 10:13

  The sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Isn’t this written in the book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the middle of the sky, and didn’t hurry to go down about a whole day.

• Judges 5:31

  “So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.

• 2 Kings 20:11

  Isaiah the prophet cried to Yahweh; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the sundial of Ahaz.

• 2 Kings 23:11

  He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of Yahweh’s house, by the room of Nathan Melech the officer, who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

• Job 31:26

  if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,

• Job 31:27

  and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,

• Job 31:28

  this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above.

• Psalms 19:4

  Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,

• Psalms 19:6

  His going out is from the end of the heavens, his circuit to its ends; There is nothing hidden from its heat.

• Psalms 74:16

  The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.

• Psalms 84:11

  For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

• Psalms 136:7

  To him who made the great lights; for his loving kindness endures forever:

• Ecclesiastes 1:5

  The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.

• Isaiah 5:30

  They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.

• Isaiah 24:23

  Then 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.

• Isaiah 30:26

  Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.

• Isaiah 38:8

  Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down.”’”

• Isaiah 60:11

  Your gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their kings led captive.

• Jeremiah 8:2

  and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the army of the sky, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for dung on the surface of the earth.

• Jeremiah 15:9

  She who has borne seven languishes; she has given up the spirit. Her sun has gone down while it was yet day. She has been disappointed and confounded: and their residue will I deliver to the sword before their enemies,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 31:35

  Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name, says:

• Ezekiel 6:4

  Your altars will become desolate, and your incense altars will be broken. I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

• Ezekiel 6:6

  In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

• Ezekiel 8:16

  He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh’s house; and I saw at the door of Yahweh’s temple, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward Yahweh’s temple, and their faces toward the east; and they were worshiping the sun toward the east.

• Ezekiel 32:7

  When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.

• Joel 2:10

  The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

• Joel 2:31

  The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

• Joel 3:15

  The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

• Amos 8:9

  It will happen in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.

• Micah 3:6

  “Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.

• Habakkuk 3:11

  The sun and moon stood still in the sky, at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.

• Malachi 4:2

  But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

• Matthew 24:29

  But 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;

• Matthew 27:45

  Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.

• Mark 13:24

  But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light,

• Mark 15:33

  When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

• Luke 21:25

  There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves;

• Luke 23:44

  It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.

• Luke 23:45

  The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two.

• Acts 2:20

  The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.

• Revelation 1:16

  He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.

• Revelation 6:12

  I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood.

• Revelation 8:12

  The fourth angel sounded, and one third of the sun was struck, and one third of the moon, and one third of the stars; so that one third of them would be darkened, and the day wouldn’t shine for one third of it, and the night in the same way.

• Revelation 9:2

  He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit.

• Revelation 12:1

  A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.

• Revelation 16:8

  The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire.

• Revelation 19:17

  I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the sky, “Come! Be gathered together to the great supper of God,

• Revelation 21:23

  The 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.