Genesis 1:16

New King James Version

Then 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.

Cross References

Genesis 1:15

and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so.

Job 31:26

If I have observed the sun when it shines, Or the moon moving in brightness,

Job 38:7

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

Psalm 148:3

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

Psalm 148:5

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

Psalm 19:6

Its rising is from one end of heaven, And its circuit to the other end; And there is nothing hidden from its heat.

Psalm 74:16

The day is Yours, the night also is Yours; You have prepared the light and the sun.

Psalm 8:3

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

Isaiah 13:10

For the stars of heaven and their constellations Will not give their light; The sun will be darkened in its going forth, And the moon will not cause its light to shine.

Isaiah 24:23

Then the moon will be disgraced And the sun ashamed; For the Lord of hosts will reign On Mount Zion and in Jerusalem And before His elders, gloriously.

Isaiah 40:26

Lift up your eyes on high, And see who has created these things, Who brings out their host by number; He calls them all by name, By the greatness of His might And the strength of His power; Not one is missing.

Isaiah 45:7

I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create calamity; I, the Lord, do all these things.’

Jeremiah 31:35

Thus says the Lord, Who gives the sun for a light by day, The ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night, Who disturbs the sea, And its waves roar (The Lord of hosts is His name):

Habakkuk 3:11

The sun and moon stood still in their habitation; At the light of Your arrows they went, At the shining of Your glittering spear.

Matthew 24:29

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

Matthew 27:45

Now from the sixth hour until the ninth hour there was darkness over all the land.

1 Corinthians 15:41

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.

Deuteronomy 4:19

And take heed, lest you lift your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, you feel driven to worship them and serve them, which the Lord your God has given to all the peoples under the whole heaven as a heritage.

Revelation 21:23

The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light.