The Moon
35 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
26 sections
- (Becoming Blood) of Judgments
- (Withdrawing Her Light) Deep Calamities
- Appointed by an Ordinance for Ever
- Appointed for a Light in the Firmament
- Appointed for Signs and Seasons
- Appointed for the Benefit of All
- Appointed: To Divide Day from Night
- Appointed: To Light the Earth by Night
- Appointed: To Rule the Night
- Bright
- Called the Lesser Light
- Created by God
- Fair
- First Appearance of, a Time of Festivity
- Has a Glory of Its Own
- Influences Vegetation
- Lunacy Attributed to the Influence of
- Made to Glorify God
- Miracles Connected With: Signs In, Before the Destruction of Jerusalem
- Miracles Connected With: Standing Still in Ajalon
- Worshipped As the Queen of Heaven
- Worshipping of Condemned As Atheism
- Worshipping of Forbidden to the Jews
- Worshipping of Jews often Guilty of
- Worshipping of Jews Punished For
- Worshipping of To be Punished with Death
(Becoming Blood) of Judgments
- Revelation 6:12 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,
(Withdrawing Her Light) Deep Calamities
- 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.
- Joel 2:10 Before them the earth quakes; the heavens tremble. The sun and moon grow dark, and the stars lose their brightness.
- Joel 3:15 The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will no longer shine.
- 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.’
Appointed by an Ordinance for Ever
- Psalm 72:5 May they fear him as long as the sun shines, as long as the moon remains, through all generations.
- Psalm 72:7 May the righteous flourish in his days and prosperity abound until the moon is no more.
- Psalm 89:37 like the moon, established forever, a faithful witness in the sky.” Selah
- Jeremiah 31:36 “Only if this fixed order departed from My presence, declares the LORD, would Israel’s descendants ever cease to be a nation before Me.”
Appointed for a Light in the Firmament
- Genesis 1:15 And let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth.” And it was so.
Appointed for Signs and Seasons
- Genesis 1:14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.
- Psalm 104:19 He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows when to set.
Appointed for the Benefit of All
- 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.
Appointed: To Divide Day from Night
- Genesis 1:14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.
Appointed: To Light the Earth by Night
- Jeremiah 31:35 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:
Appointed: To Rule the Night
- 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.
- Psalm 136:9 the moon and stars to govern the night. His loving devotion endures forever.
Bright
- Job 31:26 if I have beheld the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,
Called the Lesser Light
- 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.
Created by God
- Genesis 1:14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.
- Psalm 8:3 When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place —
Fair
- Song of Solomon 6:10 Who is this who shines like the dawn, as fair as the moon, as bright as the sun, as majestic as the stars in procession?
First Appearance of, a Time of Festivity
- 1 Samuel 20:5–6 So David told him, “Look, tomorrow is the New Moon, and I am supposed to dine with the king. Instead, let me go and hide in the field until the third evening from now. …
- Psalm 81:3 Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon, and at the full moon on the day of our Feast.
Has a Glory of Its Own
- 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.
Influences Vegetation
- Deuteronomy 33:14 with the bountiful harvest from the sun and the abundant yield of the seasons,
Lunacy Attributed to the Influence of
- Psalm 121:6 The sun will not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.
- Matthew 4:24 News about Him spread all over Syria, and people brought to Him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering acute pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed, and He healed them.
Made to Glorify God
- Psalm 148:3 Praise Him, O sun and moon; praise Him, all you shining stars.
Miracles Connected With: Signs In, Before the Destruction of Jerusalem
- 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.
Miracles Connected With: Standing Still in Ajalon
- Joshua 10:12–13 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.” …
Worshipped As the Queen of Heaven
- Jeremiah 7:18 The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.
- Jeremiah 44:17–19 Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of …
- Jeremiah 44:25 This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: As for you and your wives, you have spoken with your mouths and fulfilled with your hands your words: ‘We will surely perform our vows that we have made to burn incense to …
Worshipping of Condemned As Atheism
Worshipping of Forbidden to the Jews
- 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.
Worshipping of Jews often Guilty of
- 2 Kings 23:5 Josiah also did away with the idolatrous priests ordained by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem — those who had burned incense to Baal, to the sun …
- Jeremiah 8:2 They will be exposed to the sun and moon, and to all the host of heaven which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered up or buried, but will become like dung lying on the ground.
Worshipping of Jews Punished For
- Jeremiah 8:1–3 “At that time,” declares the LORD, “the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of the officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves. …
Worshipping of To be Punished with Death
- Deuteronomy 17:3–6 and going to worship other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven— which I have forbidden— …
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.