Genesis 1:16
God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. And He made the stars as well.
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Genesis 1:15
and let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth." And it was so.

Job 38:7
while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Psalm 8:3
When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You set in place--

Psalm 136:8
the sun to rule the day, His loving devotion endures forever.

Psalm 136:9
the moon and stars to govern the night. His loving devotion endures forever.

Isaiah 40:26
Lift up your eyes on high: Who created all these? He leads forth the starry host by number; He calls each one by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.

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to rule.

Deuteronomy 4:19
When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars--all the host of heaven--do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.

Joshua 10:12-14
On the day the LORD gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the LORD in the presence of Israel: "O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon." . . .

Job 31:26
if I have regarded the sun in its radiance or at the moon moving in splendor,

Job 38:7
while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Psalm 8:3
When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You set in place--

Psalm 19:6
It rises at one end of the heavens and runs its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth.

Psalm 74:16
The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.

Psalm 136:7, 8, 9
He made the great lights--His loving devotion endures forever. . . .

Psalm 148:3, 5
Praise Him, O sun and moon; praise Him, all you shining stars. . . .

Isaiah 13:10
For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened when it rises, and the moon will not give its light.

Isaiah 24:23
The moon will be confounded and the sun ashamed; for the LORD of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and in the presence of His elders, He will display His glory.

Isaiah 45:7
I form light and create darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.

Habakkuk 3:11
Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining 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 the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.'

Matthew 27:45
From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.

1 Corinthians 15:41
The sun has one degree of splendor, the moon another, and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.

Revelation 16:8, 9
Next, the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given power to scorch the people with fire. . . .

Revelation 21:23
And the city has no need for sun or moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its lamp.

he made the stars also.

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