Genesis 1:16

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And God made the two great lights–the greater light (the sun) to rule the day and the lesser light (the moon) to rule the night. He also made the stars.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:19

And beware lest you lift up your eyes to the heavens, and when you see the sun, moon, and stars, even all the host of the heavens, you be drawn away and worship them and serve them, things which the Lord your God has allotted to all nations under the whole heaven.

Psalm 8:3

When I view and consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained and established,

Isaiah 40:26

Lift up your eyes on high and see! Who has created these? He Who brings out their host by number and calls them all by name; through the greatness of His might and because He is strong in power, not one is missing or lacks anything.

Psalm 148:5

Let them praise the name of the Lord, for He commanded and they were created.

Psalm 74:16

The day is Yours, the night also is Yours; You have established the [starry] light and the sun.

Psalm 148:3

Praise Him, sun and moon, praise Him, all you stars of light!

Job 38:7

When the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

1 Corinthians 15:41

The sun is glorious in one way, the moon is glorious in another way, and the stars are glorious in their own [distinctive] way; for one star differs from and surpasses another in its beauty and brilliance.

Matthew 27:45

Now from the sixth hour (noon) there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour (three o'clock).

Habakkuk 3:11

The sun and moon stood back [as before Joshua] in their habitation at the light of Your arrows as they sped, at the flash of Your glittering spear. [Josh. 10:12, 13.]

Isaiah 45:7

I form the light and create darkness, I make peace [national well-being] and I create [physical] evil (calamity); I am the Lord, Who does all these things.

Isaiah 13:10

For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be darkened at its rising and the moon will not shed its light.

Psalm 19:6

Its going forth is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the ends of it; and nothing [yes, no one] is hidden from the heat of it.

Revelation 21:23

And the city has no need of the sun nor of the moon to give light to it, for the splendor and radiance (glory) of God illuminate it, and the Lamb is its lamp. [Isa. 24:23; 60:1, 19.]

Isaiah 24:23

Then the moon will be confounded and the sun ashamed, when [they compare their ineffectual fire to the light of] the Lord of hosts, Who will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before His elders will show forth His glory.

Job 31:26

If I beheld [as an object of worship] the sunlight when it shone or the moon walking in its brightness,

Matthew 24:29

Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not shed its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. [Isa. 13:10; 34:4; Joel 2:10, 11; Zeph. 1:15.]

Genesis 1:15

And let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light upon the earth. And it was so.

Jeremiah 31:35

Thus says the Lord, Who gives the sun for a light by day and the fixed order of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, Who stirs up the sea's roaring billows or stills the waves when they roar–the Lord of hosts is His name: