And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars.
to him who made the great lights, for his steadfast love endures forever; the sun to rule over the day, for his steadfast love endures forever; the moon and stars to rule over the night, for his steadfast love endures forever;
And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name; by the greatness of his might and because he is strong in power, not one is missing.
Let them praise the name of the Lord! For he commanded and they were created.
Yours is the day, yours also the night; you have established the heavenly lights and the sun.
Praise him, sun and moon, praise him, all you shining stars!
when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire. They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.
There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
The sun and moon stood still in their place at the light of your arrows as they sped, at the flash of your glittering spear.
I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the Lord, who does all these things.
For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising, and the moon will not shed its light.
Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them, and there is nothing hidden from its heat.
And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb.
Then the moon will be confounded and the sun ashamed, for the Lord of hosts reigns on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and his glory will be before his elders.
if I have looked at the sun when it shone, or the moon moving in splendor,
At that time Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day when the Lord gave the Amorites over to the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still at Gibeon, and moon, in the Valley of Aijalon.” And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stopped in the midst of heaven and did not hurry to set for about a whole day. There has been no day like it before or since, when the Lord heeded the voice of a man, for the Lord fought for Israel.
“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
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