Astronomy

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

General scriptures concerning

• Job 26:7 He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.
• Job 26:13 By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
• Job 37:18 can you, like Him, spread out the skies, as strong as a mirror of bronze?
• Job 38:31–33 Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loosen the belt of Orion? Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs? Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?
• Psalm 8:3 When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place —
• Psalm 19:1–6 For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. Without speech or language, without a sound to be heard, their voice has gone out into all the earth…
• Psalm 68:33 to Him who rides upon the highest heavens of old; behold, His mighty voice resounds.
• Psalm 136:5–9 By His insight He made the heavens. His loving devotion endures forever. He spread out the earth upon the waters. His loving devotion endures forever. He made the great lights — His loving devotion endures forever. the sun to rule the day, His loving devotion endures forever. the moon and stars to…
• Isaiah 13:10 For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.
• Isaiah 40:22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

Sidereal Phenomena

• Joshua 10:12–14 On the day that 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.” So the sun stood still and the moon stopped until the nation took vengeance upon its enemies. Is this not writ…
• Job 9:6–9 He shakes the earth from its place, so that its foundations tremble. He commands the sun not to shine; He seals off the stars. He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea. He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion, of the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.
• Ecclesiastes 1:5 The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries back to where it rises.
• Isaiah 13:13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken from its place at the wrath of the LORD of Hosts on the day of His burning anger.
• Isaiah 34:4 All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their stars will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like foliage from the fig tree.
• Ezekiel 32:7–8 When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light. All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you, and I will bring darkness upon your land,’ declares the Lord GOD.
• 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 24:35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
• Matthew 27:45 From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.
• Mark 13:24–25 But in those days, after that tribulation: ‘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.’

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