Verse 16

And God made two great lyghtes: a greater lyght to rule the day, and a lesse lyght to rule the nyght, and he made starres also.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 8:3 : 3 For I will consider thy heauens, euen the workes of thy fingers: the moone and the starres whiche thou hast ordayned.
  • Deut 4:19 : 19 Yea, and lest thou lift vp thyne eyes vnto heauen, and when thou seest the sunne, the moone, and the starres, with all the hoast of heauen, shouldest be driuen to worship them, & serue them, and shouldest worship and serue the thynges, which the Lorde thy God hath made to serue all nations vnder the whole heauen.
  • Ps 136:7-9 : 7 Who hath made great lightes: for his mercy endureth for euer. 8 The sunne to rule in the day: for his mercy endureth for euer. 9 The moone and the starres to gouerne in the night: for his mercy endureth for euer.
  • Isa 40:26 : 26 Lift vp your eyes on high, and consider who hath made those thinges which come out by so great heapes, and he calleth them al by their names: there is nothing hid from the greatnesse of his power, strength, and might.
  • Ps 148:5 : 5 Euen they shoulde prayse the name of God: for he commaunded, and they were created.
  • Ps 148:3 : 3 Prayse ye hym sunne and moone: praise hym all ye starres that geue lyght.
  • Job 38:7 : 7 Where wast thou when the morning starres praysed me together, and all the children of God reioyced triumphantly?
  • Ps 74:16 : 16 The day is thine, & the nyght is thine: thou hast prepared the light & the sunne.
  • Rev 16:8-9 : 8 And the fourth angell powred out his viall on the sunne, & power was geuen vnto hym to vexe men with heate of fyre. 9 And men boyled in great heate, and blasphemed the name of God whiche hath power ouer these plagues, & they repented not, to geue hym glorie.
  • Rev 21:23 : 23 And the citie hath no neede of the sunne, neither of the moone to lighten it: For the glorie of God dyd lighten it, and the Lambe is the lyght of it.
  • Isa 13:10 : 10 For the starres and planettes of heauen shall not geue their light, the sunne shalbe darkened in the rising, and the moone shall not shine with her light.
  • Isa 24:23 : 23 The moone shalbe abashed, and the sunne ashamed, when the Lorde of hoastes shal raigne in mount Sion and in Hierusalem with worship, and in the sight of suche as shalbe of his counsell.
  • Isa 45:7 : 7 It is I that created light and darknesse, I make peace and trouble: yea euen I the Lorde do all these thinges.
  • Hab 3:11 : 11 The sonne and moone stoode still in their habitation, at the light of thyne arrowes they went, and at the bright shining of thy speares.
  • Matt 24:29 : 29 Immediatly after the tribulation of those dayes, shal the sunne be darkened, and the moone shall not geue her lyght, and the starres shall fall from heauen, and the powers of heauen shalbe shaken.
  • Matt 27:45 : 45 Fro the sixth houre, was there darknesse ouer all the lande, vnto the nynth houre.
  • 1 Cor 15:41 : 41 There is another glorie of the sunne, and another glorie of the moone, and another glorie of the starres: For one starre differeth from another starre in glorie.
  • Josh 10:12-14 : 12 Then spake Iosuah to the Lorde in the day when the Lorde deliuered the Amorites before the children of Israel, & he sayd in the sight of Israel, Sunne, stande thou styll vpon Gibeon, and thou Moone in the valley of Aialon. 13 And the sunne abode, and the moone stoode styll, vntyll the people auenged them selues vpon their enemies. Is not this written in the booke of the righteous? So the sunne I say abode in the middest of heauen, and hasted not to go downe by the space of a whole day. 14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the Lorde hearde the voyce of a man: for the Lorde fought for Israel.
  • Job 31:26 : 26 Dyd I euer greatly regarde the rysing of the sunne? or had I the goyng downe of the moone in great reputation?
  • Ps 19:6 : 6 His settyng foorth is from the vtmost part of heauen, and his circuite vnto the vtmost part therof: and there is nothing hyd from his heat.