Astronomy
40 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
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? …
- 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 The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands. …
- 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. …
- 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.
- 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.
- Isaiah 47:13 You are wearied by your many counselors; let them come forward now and save you— your astrologers who observe the stars, who monthly predict your fate.
- Jeremiah 31:35–37 Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar — the LORD of Hosts is His name: …
- Jeremiah 33:22 As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me.”
- Amos 5:8 He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth — the LORD is His name —
- 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.
- Jude 13 They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
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.” …
- Job 9:6–9 He shakes the earth from its place, so that its foundations tremble. …
- 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. …
- 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; …
- Luke 21:25 There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.
- Luke 23:44–45 It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over all the land until the ninth hour. …
- Acts 2:19–20 I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke. …
- 2 Peter 3:10 But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and its works will be laid bare.
- Revelation 6:12–14 And I watched as the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red, …
- Revelation 8:10–12 Then the third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star burning like a torch fell from heaven and landed on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. …
- Revelation 9:1–2 Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and it was given the key to the pit of the Abyss. …
- Revelation 10:1–2 Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head. His face was like the sun, and his legs were like pillars of fire. …
- Revelation 12:3–4 Then another sign appeared in heaven: a huge red dragon with seven heads, ten horns, and seven royal crowns on his heads. …
- Revelation 13:13 And the second beast performed great signs, even causing fire from heaven to come down to earth in the presence of the people.
- Revelation 16:8–9 Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given power to scorch the people with fire. …
- Revelation 19:11–14 Then I saw heaven standing open, and there before me was a white horse. And its rider is called Faithful and True. With righteousness He judges and wages war. …
- Revelation 21:1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
Related topics
StarsSunMeteorology and Celestial PhenomenaEclipse of the Sun and MoonThe StarsMoon
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.