Bible Verses About Astronomy: Sidereal phenomena

Then, on the day ADONAI handed over the Emori to the people of Isra'el, Y'hoshua spoke to ADONA I; in the sight of Isra'el he said, "Sun, stand motionless over Giv'on! Moon, you too, over Ayalon Valley!"

So the sun stood still and the moon stayed put, till Isra'el took vengeance on their enemies.

This is written in the book of Yashar. The sun stood still in the sky and was in no rush to set for nearly a whole day. There has never been a day like that before or since, when ADONAI listened to the voice of a man; it happened because ADONAI was fighting on Isra'el's behalf.

He shakes the earth from its place; its supporting pillars tremble.

He commands the sun, and it fails to rise; he shuts up the stars under his seal.

He alone spreads out the sky and walks on the waves in the sea.

He made the Great Bear, Orion, the Pleiades and the hidden constellations of the south.

When I extinguish you, I will cover the sky and make its stars black; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light.

All the shining lights in the sky I will darken above you; I will spread darkness over your land,' says Adonai ELOHIM.

In those days, after that trouble, the sun will grow dark, the moon will stop shining,

the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers in heaven will be shaken.z

It was now about noon, and darkness covered the whole Land until three o’clock in the afternoon;

the sun did not shine. Also the parokhet in the Temple was split down the middle.

I will perform miracles in the sky above and signs on the earth below — blood, fire and thick smoke.

The sun will become dark and the moon blood before the great and fearful Day of Adonai comes.

Then I watched as he broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake, the sun turned black as sackcloth worn in mourning, and the full moon became blood-red.

The stars fell from heaven to earth just as a fig tree drops its figs when shaken by a strong wind.

The sky receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.

The third angel sounded his shofar; and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky onto a third of the rivers and onto the springs of water.

The name of the star was “Bitterness,” and a third of the water became bitter, and many people died from the water that had been turned bitter.

The fourth angel sounded his shofar; and a third of the sun was struck, also a third of the moon and a third of the stars; so that a third of them were darkened, the day had a third less light, and the night likewise.

The fifth angel sounded his shofar; and I saw a star that had fallen out of heaven onto the earth, and he was given the key to the shaft leading down to the Abyss.

He opened the shaft of the Abyss, and there went up smoke from the shaft like the smoke of a huge furnace; the sun was darkened, and the sky too, by the smoke from the shaft.

Next I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven. He was dressed in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head; his face was like the sun, his legs like columns of fire;

and he had a little scroll lying open in his hand. He planted his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land,