Sun In The Bible: Symbol, Verses and Meaning

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Sun in the Bible

• 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: 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 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. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, …
• Psalm 74:16 The day is yours, and the night is yours: you have prepared the light and the sun .
• Psalm 136:7 To him who made great lights, for his mercy endures forever:
• Jeremiah 31:35 Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day , and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar: The LORD of hosts is his name:

Sunrise and sunset

• Ecclesiastes 1:5 The sun also riseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth unto the place where it arose.

Diurnal movement of

• Psalm 19:4 Their lineage has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. He has set up a tabernacle for the sun there,
• Psalm 19:6

Worship of, forbidden

• Deuteronomy 4:19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, and all the host of heaven be moved to worship them, and to serve them: for the LORD thy God hath divided all nations under the whole heaven.
• Deuteronomy 17:3 And he went and served other gods, and worshipped them, whether the sun, or the moon, or any of the hosts of heaven, which I commanded not:

Adored

• Job 31:26-28 If I had seen the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in the light; 27 And my heart had been secretly deceived, or my mouth had kissed my hand. 28 This also was an iniquity to be punished by the judge, for I had denied the God who is on high.
• Jeremiah 8:2 And they shall spread them out before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor buried; they shall be as dunghill upon the face of the earth.
• Ezekiel 6:4 And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken, and I will cast your slain men before your idols.
• Ezekiel 6:6 In all your habitations the cities shall be desolate, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be desolate and laid waste, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be destroyed.
• Ezekiel 8:16 And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the LORD: and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.

The kings of Judah dedicate horses to

• 2 Kings 23:11 And he took the horses which the kings of Judah had given to the sun, from the door of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariot of the sun with fire.

Miracles concerning

Darkening of

• Exodus 10:21-23 And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness that may be felt. 22 And Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness over all the land of Egypt three days. 23 And they saw one another not, neither rose any man out of his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
• Isaiah 5:30 And in that day they shall roar against them as the roaring of the sea: and if any man look toward the land, behold darkness and gloom, and the light is darkened from the heavens thereof.
• Isaiah 24:23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his elders in glory.
• Ezekiel 32:7 And when I put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark: and I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give it light.
• Joel 2:10 The earth will quake before them, the heavens will shake, the sun and the moon will be darkened, and the stars will withdraw their shining.
• Joel 2:31 The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes.
• Joel 3:15 The sun and the moon will be darkened, and the stars will withdraw their shining.
• Amos 8:9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
• Micah 3:6 Therefore the night shall be unto you, that ye shall not see; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not guess: and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be dark upon them.
• Matthew 24:29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give her light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
• Matthew 27:45 And from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
• Mark 13:24 But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give her light,
• Mark 15:33 And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
• Luke 21:25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and in the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea, and the roaring of the waves;
• Luke 23:44-45 And it was about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. 45 And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
• Acts 2:20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come.
• Revelation 6:12 And I beheld, when he had opened the sixth seal, and, behold, there was a great earthquake: and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood:
• Revelation 8:12 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; and the third part of them were darkened, and the day did not shine for a third part, and the night likewise.
• Revelation 9:2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
• Revelation 16:8 And the fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.

Remained still

• Joshua 10:12-13 Then Joshua spoke to the LORD on the day that the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand still at Gibeon; and you, Moon, in the valley of Aijalon. 13 So the sun stood still, and the moon stood still, until the people had avenged themselves on their enemies. Is it not written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and made no haste to go down about a full day.
• Habakkuk 3:11 The sun and the moon have stood still in their place; they have walked by the light of your arrows, and by the brightness of your glittering spear.

The shadow of Ahaz's sundial rose again

• 2 Kings 20:11 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD, and he turned back the shadow ten degrees from which it had descended in the sundial of Ahaz.
• Isaiah 38:8 Behold, I will bring back the shadow of the degrees, which went down in the sundial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward: so the sun returned ten degrees, even the degrees by which it went down.

Don't shine in the sky

• Revelation 21:23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

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Figurative verses

• Psalm 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
• Malachi 4:2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
• Judges 5:31 Let all thine enemies perish, O LORD; but let them that love him be as the sun when it goeth forth in its might. And the land had rest forty years.
• Isaiah 30:26 And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD shall close the breach of his people, and heal the stroke of their wound.
• Isaiah 60:11 Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and their kings may be brought.
• Jeremiah 15:9 She that bare seven years fainteth; she hath given up the ghost; her sun hath gone down while it was yet day; she is ashamed and confounded: and I will deliver their remnant to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.
• Revelation 1:16 And he had in his right hand seven stars; and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
• Revelation 12:1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars:
• Revelation 19:17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God: