Bible Verses About The Moon

God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years;

and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth”; and it was so.

God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.

and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.

and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the stars of the sky, which I have not commanded;

and you are told, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel,

then you shall bring out that man or that woman, who has done this evil thing, to your gates, even that same man or woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.

At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death. At the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.

for the precious things of the fruits of the sun, for the precious things that the moon can yield,

Then Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley of Aijalon!”

The sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Isn’t this written in the book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the midst of the sky, and didn’t hurry to go down about a whole day.

David said to Jonathan, “Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to dine with the king; but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening.

If your father miss me at all, then say, ‘David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city; for it is the yearly sacrifice there for all the family.’

He put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the army of the sky.

if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,

this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above.

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

They shall fear you while the sun endures; and as long as the moon, throughout all generations.

In his days, the righteous shall flourish, and abundance of peace, until the moon is no more.

Blow the shofar at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.

It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.” Selah.

He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows when to set.

The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.

The moon and stars to rule by night; for his loving kindness endures forever:

Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars!