Verse 16

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.

Referenced Verses

  • 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, shoulst be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divid unto all nations unr 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 poud out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fi. 9 And men we scorched with gat heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they pented 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 theof.
  • 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 itation: 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 hua 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.