Verse 16

And God maketh the two great luminaries, the great luminary for the rule of the day, and the small luminary -- and the stars -- for the rule of the night;

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 8:3 : 3 For I see Thy heavens, a work of Thy fingers, Moon and stars that Thou didst establish.
  • Deut 4:19 : 19 `And lest thou lift up thine eyes towards the heavens, and hast seen the sun, and the moon, and the stars, all the host of the heavens, and thou hast been forced, and hast bowed thyself to them, and served them, which Jehovah thy God hath apportioned to all the peoples under the whole heavens.
  • Ps 136:7-9 : 7 To Him making great lights, For to the age `is' His kindness. 8 The sun to rule by day, For to the age `is' His kindness. 9 The moon and stars to rule by night, For to the age `is' His kindness.
  • Isa 40:26 : 26 Lift up on high your eyes, And see -- who hath prepared these? He who is bringing out by number their host, To all of them by name He calleth, By abundance of strength (And `he is' strong in power) not one is lacking.
  • Ps 148:5 : 5 They do praise the name of Jehovah, For He commanded, and they were created.
  • Ps 148:3 : 3 Praise ye Him, sun and moon, Praise ye Him, all stars of light.
  • Job 38:7 : 7 In the singing together of stars of morning, And all sons of God shout for joy,
  • Ps 74:16 : 16 Thine `is' the day, also Thine `is' the night, Thou hast prepared a light giver -- the sun.
  • Rev 16:8-9 : 8 And the fourth messenger did pour out his vial upon the sun, and there was given to him to scorch men with fire, 9 and men were scorched with great heat, and they did speak evil of the name of God, who hath authority over these plagues, and they did not reform -- to give to Him glory.
  • Rev 21:23 : 23 and the city hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon, that they may shine in it; for the glory of God did lighten it, and the lamp of it `is' the Lamb;
  • Isa 13:10 : 10 For the stars of the heavens, and their constellations, Cause not their light to shine, Darkened hath been the sun in its going out, And the moon causeth not its light to come forth.
  • Isa 24:23 : 23 And confounded hath been the moon, And ashamed hath been the sun, For reigned hath Jehovah of Hosts In mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, And over-against His elders -- honour!
  • Isa 45:7 : 7 Forming light, and preparing darkness, Making peace, and preparing evil, I `am' Jehovah, doing all these things.'
  • Hab 3:11 : 11 Sun -- moon -- hath stood -- a habitation, At the light thine arrows go on, At the brightness, the glittering of thy spear.
  • Matt 24:29 : 29 `And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken;
  • Matt 27:45 : 45 And from the sixth hour darkness came over all the land unto the ninth hour,
  • 1 Cor 15:41 : 41 one glory of sun, and another glory of moon, and another glory of stars, for star from star doth differ in glory.
  • Josh 10:12-14 : 12 Then speaketh Joshua to Jehovah in the day of Jehovah's giving up the Amorites before the sons of Israel, and he saith, before the eyes of Israel, `Sun -- in Gibeon stand still; and moon -- in the valley of Ajalon;' 13 and the sun standeth still, and the moon hath stood -- till the nation taketh vengeance `on' its enemies; is it not written on the Book of the Upright, `and the sun standeth in the midst of the heavens, and hath not hasted to go in -- as a perfect day?' 14 And there hath not been like that day before it or after it, for Jehovah's hearkening to the voice of a man; for Jehovah is fighting for Israel.
  • Job 31:26 : 26 If I see the light when it shineth, And the precious moon walking,
  • Ps 19:6 : 6 From the end of the heavens `is' his going out, And his revolution `is' unto their ends, And nothing is hid from his heat.