Genesis 1:16

World Messianic Bible British Edition

God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.

Cross References

Genesis 1:15

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

Job 31:26

if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendour,

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 shining stars!

Psalm 148:5

Let them praise the LORD’s name, for he commanded, and they were created.

Psalm 19:6

His going out is from the end of the heavens, his circuit to its ends. There is nothing hidden from its heat.

Psalm 74:16

The day is yours, the night is also 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 the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.

Isaiah 24:23

Then the moon will be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for the LORD of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem; and glory will be before his elders.

Isaiah 40:26

Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. By the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.

Isaiah 45:7

I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am the LORD, who does all these things.

Jeremiah 31:35

The LORD, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar— the LORD of Hosts is his name, says:

Habakkuk 3:11

The sun and moon stood still in the sky at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.

Matthew 24:29

“But immediately after the suffering of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will 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, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differs from another star in glory.

Deuteronomy 4:19

and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.

Revelation 21:23

The city has no need for the sun or moon to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it and its lamp is the Lamb.