Stars
Heavenly bodies created by God that declare his glory and communicate his purposes. Genesis 1:16 records God creating 'the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night — and also the stars.' God compared Abraham's descendants to the stars (Genesis 15:5). A star announced Jesus' birth (Matthew 2:2). Job 38:7 speaks of creation's dawn 'when the morning stars sang together.' Psalm 147:4 marvels that God 'determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name.' Daniel 12:3 promises, 'Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.'
Verses about Stars
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Genesis 1:16
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.
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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…
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Genesis 22:17
That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea sho…
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Genesis 26:4
And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations o…
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Genesis 37:9
And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the …
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Exodus 32:13
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the sta…
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Numbers 24:17
I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and sha…
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Deuteronomy 1:10
The Lord your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
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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 dri…
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Deuteronomy 10:22
Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the Lord thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.
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Deuteronomy 28:62
And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the Lord thy Go…
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Judges 5:20
They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
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1 Chronicles 27:23
But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the Lord had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the he…
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Nehemiah 4:21
So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
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Nehemiah 9:23
Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their father…
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Job 3:9
Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
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Job 9:7
Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
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Job 22:12
Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
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Job 25:5
Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
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Job 38:7
When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?