The stars

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• Psalms 8:3

  When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

• Psalms 147:4

  He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.

• Amos 5:8

  Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:

• Deuteronomy 4:19

  And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

• Genesis 1:14

  And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

• Daniel 12:3

  And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.

• Job 9:9

  Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.

• Matthew 2:2

  Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.

• Isaiah 40:26

  Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.

• Psalms 136:9

  The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth for ever.

• Psalms 19:1

  To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.

• Psalms 104:5

  Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.

• Isaiah 13:10

  For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

• Genesis 1:1–31

  In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. …

• 2 Kings 23:5

  And 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 round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

• Genesis 1:14–18

  And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. …

• Genesis 15:5

  And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.