Genesis 1:16

Bible in Basic English 1965

And God made the two great lights: the greater light to be the ruler of the day, and the smaller light to be the ruler of the night: and he made the stars.

Cross References

Genesis 1:15

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

Job 31:26

If, when I saw the sun shining, and the moon moving on its bright way,

Job 38:7

When the morning stars made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy?

Psalm 148:3

Give praise to him, you sun and moon: give praise to him, all you stars of light.

Psalm 148:5

Let them give praise to the name of the Lord: for he gave the order, and they were made.

Psalm 19:6

His going out is from the end of the heaven, and his circle to the ends of it; there is nothing which is not open to his heat.

Psalm 74:16

The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun.

Psalm 8:3

When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places;

Isaiah 13:10

For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.

Isaiah 24:23

Then the moon will be veiled, and the sun put to shame; for the Lord of armies will be ruling in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before his judges he will let his glory be seen.

Isaiah 40:26

Let your eyes be lifted up on high, and see: who has made these? He who sends out their numbered army: who has knowledge of all their names: by whose great strength, because he is strong in power, all of them are in their places.

Isaiah 45:7

I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.

Jeremiah 31:35

These are the words of the Lord, who has given the sun for a light by day, ordering the moon and stars for a light by night, who puts the sea in motion, causing the thunder of its waves; the Lord of armies is his name.

Habakkuk 3:11

At the light of your arrows they went away, at the shining of your polished spear.

Matthew 24:29

But straight away, after the trouble of those days, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light and the stars will come down from heaven and the powers of heaven will be moved:

Matthew 27:45

Now from the sixth hour it was dark over all the land till the ninth hour.

1 Corinthians 15:41

There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for the glory of one star is different from that of another.

Deuteronomy 4:19

And when your eyes are lifted up to heaven, and you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of heaven, do not let yourselves be moved to give them worship, or become the servants of what the Lord has given equally to all peoples under heaven.

Revelation 21:23

And the town has no need of the sun, or of the moon, to give it light: for the glory of God did make it light, and the light of it is the Lamb.