Genesis 1:16

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

And God made the 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 heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

Job 31:26

If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness;

Job 38:7

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

Psalm 148:3

Praise ye him, sun and moon; Praise him, all ye stars of light.

Psalm 148:5

Let them praise the name of the LORD: For he commanded, and they were created.

Psalm 19:6

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.

Psalm 74:16

The day is thine, the night also is thine: Thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

Psalm 8:3

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

Isaiah 13:10

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.

Isaiah 24:23

Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

Isaiah 40:26

Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath created these, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and for that he is strong in power, not one is lacking.

Isaiah 45:7

I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil; I am the LORD, that doeth all these things.

Jeremiah 31:35

Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which stirreth up the sea, that the waves thereof roar; the LORD of hosts is his name:

Habakkuk 3:11

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

Matthew 24:29

But 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 heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

Matthew 27:45

Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until 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 one star differeth from another star in glory.

Deuteronomy 4:19

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, thou be drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all the peoples under the whole heaven.

Revelation 21:23

And the city hath no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine upon it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the lamp thereof is the Lamb.