Genesis 1:16 Cross References - BBE

¹⁶ And God made the two great lights: the greater light to be the ruler of the day, and the smaller light to be the ruler of the night: and he made the stars.

¹⁹ And when your eyes are lifted up to heaven, and you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of heaven, do not let yourselves be moved to give them worship, or become the servants of what the Lord has given equally to all peoples under heaven.

¹² It was on the day when the Lord gave up the Amorites into the hands of the children of Israel that Joshua said to the Lord, before the eyes of Israel, Sun, be at rest over Gibeon; and you, O moon, in the valley of Aijalon. ¹³ And the sun was at rest and the moon kept its place till the nation had given punishment to their attackers. Is it not recorded in the book of Jashar? So the sun kept its place in the middle of the heavens, and was waiting, and did not go down, for the space of a day. ¹⁴ And there was no day like that, before it or after it, when the Lord gave ear to the voice of a man; for the Lord was fighting for Israel.

²⁶ If, when I saw the sun shining, and the moon moving on its bright way,

⁷ When the morning stars made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy?

³ When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places;

⁶ His going out is from the end of the heaven, and his circle to the ends of it; there is nothing which is not open to his heat.

¹⁶ The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun.

⁷ To him who made great lights: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. ⁸ The sun to have rule by day: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. ⁹ The moon and the stars to have rule by night: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

³ Give praise to him, you sun and moon: give praise to him, all you stars of light.

⁵ Let them give praise to the name of the Lord: for he gave the order, and they were made.

¹⁰ For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.

²³ Then the moon will be veiled, and the sun put to shame; for the Lord of armies will be ruling in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before his judges he will let his glory be seen.

²⁶ Let your eyes be lifted up on high, and see: who has made these? He who sends out their numbered army: who has knowledge of all their names: by whose great strength, because he is strong in power, all of them are in their places.

⁷ I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.

¹¹ At the light of your arrows they went away, at the shining of your polished spear.

²⁹ But straight away, after the trouble of those days, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light and the stars will come down from heaven and the powers of heaven will be moved:

⁴⁵ Now from the sixth hour it was dark over all the land till the ninth hour.

⁴¹ There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for the glory of one star is different from that of another.

⁸ And the fourth let what was in his vessel come out on the sun; and power was given to it that men might be burned with fire. ⁹ And men were burned with great heat: and they said evil things against the name of the God who has authority over these punishments; and they were not turned from their evil ways to give him glory.

²³ And the town has no need of the sun, or of the moon, to give it light: for the glory of God did make it light, and the light of it is the Lamb.