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.

Cross References (20)

  • Psalms 136:7–9 (11)

    He made the great lights—His loving devotion endures forever.

  • Deuteronomy 4:19 (10)

    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

  • Psalms 8:3 (8)

    When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—

  • Psalms 74:16 (7)

    The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.

  • Psalms 148:5 (7)

    Let them praise the name of the LORD, for He gave the command and they were created.

  • Isaiah 40:26 (7)

    Lift up your eyes on high: Who created all these? He leads forth the starry host by number; He calls each one by name. B

  • Job 38:7 (6)

    while the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

  • Psalms 148:3 (6)

    Praise Him, O sun and moon; praise Him, all you shining stars.

  • Revelation 16:8–9 (5)

    Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given power to scorch the people with fire.

  • Isaiah 45:7 (5)

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

  • Matthew 27:45 (5)

    From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.

  • Isaiah 13:10 (5)

    For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moo

  • Habakkuk 3:11 (5)

    Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining spear.

  • 1 Corinthians 15:41 (5)

    The sun has one degree of splendor, the moon another, and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.

  • Psalms 19:6 (5)

    it rises at one end of the heavens and runs its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth.

  • Job 31:26 (4)

    if I have beheld the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,

  • Isaiah 24:23 (4)

    The moon will be confounded and the sun will be ashamed; for the LORD of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem

  • Revelation 21:23 (3)

    And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is i

  • Matthew 24:29 (3)

    Immediately after the tribulation of those days: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the st

  • Joshua 10:12–14 (3)

    On the day that the LORD gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “