Genesis 1:16

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also.

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  • Ps 8:3 : 3 ¶ When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
  • Deut 4:19 : 19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, [even] all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
  • Ps 136:7-9 : 7 To him that made great lights: for his mercy [endureth] for ever: 8 The sun to rule by day: for his mercy [endureth] for ever: 9 The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.
  • Isa 40:26 : 26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these [things], that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that [he is] strong in power; not one faileth.
  • Ps 148:5 : 5 Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created.
  • Ps 148:3 : 3 Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.
  • Job 38:7 : 7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
  • Ps 74:16 : 16 The day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
  • Rev 16:8-9 : 8 ¶ And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. 9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
  • Rev 21:23 : 23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb [is] the light thereof.
  • Isa 13:10 : 10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
  • Isa 24:23 : 23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
  • Isa 45:7 : 7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things].
  • Hab 3:11 : 11 The sun [and] moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, [and] at the shining of thy glittering spear.
  • Matt 24:29 : 29 ‹Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:›
  • Matt 27:45 : 45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
  • 1 Cor 15:41 : 41 [There is] one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for [one] star differeth from [another] star in glory.
  • Josh 10:12-14 : 12 Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. 13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. [Is] not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. 14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel.
  • Job 31:26 : 26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking [in] brightness;
  • Ps 19:6 : 6 His going forth [is] from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

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    17And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

    18And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that [it was] good.

    19And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

    20¶ And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl [that] may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

    21And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.

    22And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

    23And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

  • Gen 1:13-15
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    13And the evening and the morning were the third day.

    14¶ And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

    15And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

  • Gen 1:1-11
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    1¶ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

    2And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

    3¶ And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

    4And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

    5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

    6¶ And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

    7And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which [were] under the firmament from the waters which [were] above the firmament: and it was so.

    8And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

    9¶ And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry [land] appear: and it was so.

    10And God called the dry [land] Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that [it was] good.

    11And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, [and] the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed [is] in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

  • Gen 2:4
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    4¶ These [are] the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

  • Ps 148:3
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    3Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.

  • Jer 31:35
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    35¶ Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, [and] the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts [is] his name:

  • Ps 19:1-2
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    1¶ To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.

    2Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.

  • Ps 136:7-9
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    72%

    7To him that made great lights: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:

    8The sun to rule by day: for his mercy [endureth] for ever:

    9The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

  • Ps 74:16
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    16The day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

  • Ps 8:3
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    3¶ When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

  • Gen 1:26-27
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    27So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

  • Gen 2:1
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    1¶ Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

  • Jer 10:12
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    12He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.

  • Ps 33:6
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    6By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

  • Ps 78:14
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    14In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.

  • John 1:3
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    3All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

  • 1 Cor 15:41
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    41[There is] one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for [one] star differeth from [another] star in glory.

  • Jer 51:15
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    15He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.

  • Job 38:7
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    7When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

  • 2 Pet 1:19
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    19¶ We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

  • Isa 13:10
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    10For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

  • Jer 4:23
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    23I beheld the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form, and void; and the heavens, and they [had] no light.

  • Ps 104:19
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    19¶ He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.

  • Deut 4:19
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    19And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, [even] all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

  • Job 9:9
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    9Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.

  • Job 26:10
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    10He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.