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On the day the LORD gave the Amorites over to Israel, Joshua said 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, till the nation avenged itself on its enemies, as it is written in the Book of Jashar. The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day.
There has never been a day like it before or since, a day when the LORD listened to a man. Surely the LORD was fighting for Israel!
Joshua Chapter 10: Verses 12 - 14
He shakes the earth from its place and makes its pillars tremble.
He speaks to the sun and it does not shine; he seals off the light of 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, the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.
Job Chapter 9: Verses 6 - 9
He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.
Job Chapter 26: Verse 7
By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the gliding serpent.
Job Chapter 26: Verse 13
can you join him in spreading out the skies, hard as a mirror of cast bronze?
Job Chapter 37: Verse 18
"Can you bind the beautiful Pleiades? Can you loose the cords of Orion?
Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear with its cubs?
Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up God's dominion over the earth?
Job Chapter 38: Verses 31 - 33
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
Psalms Chapter 8: Verse 3
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 display knowledge.
There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard.
Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens he has pitched a tent for the sun,
which is like a bridegroom coming forth from his pavilion, like a champion rejoicing to run his course.
It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other; nothing is hidden from its heat.
Psalms Chapter 19: Verses 1 - 6
to him who rides the ancient skies above, who thunders with mighty voice.
Psalms Chapter 68: Verse 33
who by his understanding made the heavens, His love endures forever.
who spread out the earth upon the waters, His love endures forever.
who made the great lights, His love endures forever.
the sun to govern the day, His love endures forever.
the moon and stars to govern the night; His love endures forever.
Psalms Chapter 136: Verses 5 - 9
The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises.
Ecclesiastes Chapter 1: Verse 5
The stars of heaven and their constellations will not show their light. The rising sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light.
Isaiah Chapter 13: Verse 10
Therefore I will make the heavens tremble; and the earth will shake from its place at the wrath of the LORD Almighty, in the day of his burning anger.
Isaiah Chapter 13: Verse 13
All the stars of the heavens will be dissolved and the sky rolled up like a scroll; all the starry host will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like shriveled figs from the fig tree.
Isaiah Chapter 34: Verse 4
He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
Isaiah Chapter 40: Verse 22
All the counsel you have received has only worn you out! Let your astrologers come forward, those stargazers who make predictions month by month, let them save you from what is coming upon you.
Isaiah Chapter 47: Verse 13
This is what the LORD says, he who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar, the LORD Almighty is his name:
Jeremiah Chapter 31: Verse 35
I will make the descendants of David my servant and the Levites who minister before me as countless as the stars of the sky and as measureless as the sand on the seashore.' "
Jeremiah Chapter 33: Verse 22
When I snuff you out, 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; I will bring darkness over your land, declares the Sovereign LORD.
Ezekiel Chapter 32: Verses 7 - 8
(he who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns blackness into dawn and darkens day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out over the face of the land, the LORD is his name-
Amos Chapter 5: Verse 8
"Immediately after the distress 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 heavenly bodies will be shaken.'
Matthew Chapter 24: Verse 29
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.The Day and Hour Unknown
Matthew Chapter 24: Verse 35
From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.
Matthew Chapter 27: Verse 45
"There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea.
Luke Chapter 21: Verse 25
It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour,
Luke Chapter 23: Verse 44
I will show wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke.
The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.
Acts Chapter 2: Verses 19 - 20
The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.
1 Corinthians Chapter 15: Verse 41
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 everything in it will be laid bare.
2 Peter Chapter 3: Verse 10
They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
Jude Chapter 1: Verse 13
I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red,
and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind.
The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.
Revelation Chapter 6: Verses 12 - 14
The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water,
the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.
The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night.
Revelation Chapter 8: Verses 10 - 12
The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss.
When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss.
Revelation Chapter 9: Verses 1 - 2
Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven. He was robed in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun, and his legs were like fiery pillars.
Revelation Chapter 10: Verse 1
Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his heads.
His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child the moment it was born.
Revelation Chapter 12: Verses 3 - 4
And he performed great and miraculous signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to earth in full view of men.
Revelation Chapter 13: Verse 13
The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and the sun was given power to scorch people with fire.
Revelation Chapter 16: Verse 8
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.
Revelation Chapter 21: Verse 1
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