Genesis 1:16

Webster's Bible (1833)

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.

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  • Ps 8:3 : 3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, The moon and the stars, which you have ordained;
  • Deut 4:19 : 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 host 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 136:7-9 : 7 To him who made the great lights; For his loving kindness endures forever: 8 The sun to rule by day; For his loving kindness endures forever; 9 The moon and stars to rule by night; For his loving kindness endures forever:
  • Isa 40:26 : 26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their host 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 148:5 : 5 Let them praise the name of Yahweh, For he commanded, and they were created.
  • Ps 148:3 : 3 Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars!
  • 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 yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.
  • Rev 16:8-9 : 8 The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire. 9 People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn't repent and give him glory.
  • Rev 21:23 : 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.
  • Isa 13:10 : 10 For the stars of the sky and the constellations of it shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine.
  • Isa 24:23 : 23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and before his elders shall be glory.
  • Isa 45:7 : 7 I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.
  • Hab 3:11 : 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.
  • Matt 24:29 : 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;
  • Matt 27:45 : 45 Now from the sixth hour{noon} there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.{3:00 P. M.}
  • 1 Cor 15:41 : 41 There 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.
  • Josh 10:12-14 : 12 Then spoke Joshua to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand you still on Gibeon; You, Moon, in the valley of Aijalon. 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 midst of the sky, and didn't hurry to go down about a whole day. 14 There was no day like that before it or after it, that Yahweh listened to the voice of a man: for Yahweh fought for Israel.
  • Job 31:26 : 26 If I have seen the sun when it shined, Or the moon moving in splendor,
  • Ps 19:6 : 6 His going forth is from the end of the heavens, His circuit to its ends; There is nothing hidden from its heat.

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