Joshua 10:11

10:11 As they fled from Israel on the slope leading down from ¹  Beth Horon, the Lord threw down on them large hailstones from the sky, ²  all the way to Azekah. They died – in fact, more died from the hailstones than the Israelites killed with the sword.

Joshua 10:14

10:14 There has not been a day like it before or since. The Lord obeyed ³  a man, for the Lord fought for Israel!

Psalms 19:4

19:4 Yet its voice ⁴  echoes ⁵  throughout the earth;

its ⁶  words carry ⁷  to the distant horizon. ⁸ 

In the sky ⁹  he has pitched a tent for the sun. ¹⁰ 

Psalms 74:16-17

74:16 You established the cycle of day and night; ¹¹ 

you put the moon ¹²  and sun in place. ¹³ 

74:17 You set up all the boundaries ¹⁴  of the earth;

you created the cycle of summer and winter. ¹⁵ 

Psalms 136:7-9

136:7 to the one who made the great lights,

for his loyal love endures,

136:8 the sun to rule by day,

for his loyal love endures,

136:9 the moon and stars to rule by night,

for his loyal love endures,

Psalms 148:3

148:3 Praise him, O sun and moon!

Praise him, all you shiny stars! ¹⁶ 

Isaiah 24:23

24:23 The full moon will be covered up, ¹⁷ 

the bright sun ¹⁸  will be darkened; ¹⁹ 

for the Lord who commands armies will rule ²⁰ 

on Mount Zion in Jerusalem ²¹ 

in the presence of his assembly, in majestic splendor. ²² 

Isaiah 38:8

38:8 Look, I will make the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz.” ²³  And then the shadow went back ten steps. ²⁴ 

Joel 2:10

2:10 The earth quakes ²⁵  before them; ²⁶ 

the sky reverberates. ²⁷ 

The sun and the moon grow dark;

the stars refuse to shine. ²⁸ 

Joel 2:31

2:31 The sunlight will be turned to darkness

and the moon to the color of blood, ²⁹ 

before the day of the Lord comes –

that great and terrible day!

Joel 3:15

3:15 The sun and moon are darkened;

the stars withhold ³⁰  their brightness.

Matthew 5:45

5:45 so that you may be like ³¹  your Father in heaven, since he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

Matthew 24:29

The Arrival of the Son of Man

24:29 “Immediately ³²  after the suffering ³³  of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven will be shaken. ³⁴ 

Acts 2:20

2:20 The sun will be changed to darkness

and the moon to blood

before the great and glorious ³⁵  day of the Lord comes.

Revelation 6:12

6:12 Then ³⁶  I looked when the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and a huge ³⁷  earthquake took place; the sun became as black as sackcloth made of hair, ³⁸  and the full moon became blood red; ³⁹ 

Revelation 8:12

8:12 Then ⁴⁰  the fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them were darkened. And there was no light for a third of the day ⁴¹  and for a third of the night likewise.

Revelation 16:8-9

16:8 Then ⁴²  the fourth angel ⁴³  poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was permitted to scorch people ⁴⁴  with fire. 16:9 Thus ⁴⁵  people ⁴⁶  were scorched by the terrible heat, ⁴⁷  yet ⁴⁸  they blasphemed the name of God, who has ruling authority ⁴⁹  over these plagues, and they would not repent and give him glory.

Revelation 21:23

21:23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God lights it up, and its lamp is the Lamb.

[10:11]  ¹ tn Heb “on the descent of.”

[10:11]  ² tn Or “heaven” (also in v. 13). The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

[10:14]  ³ tn Heb “listened to the voice of.”

[19:4]  ⁴ tc The MT reads, “their measuring line” (קוּם, qum). The noun קַו (qav, “measuring line”) makes no sense in this context. The reading קוֹלָם (qolam, “their voice”) which is supported by the LXX, is preferable.

[19:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “goes out,” or “proceeds forth.”

[19:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “their” (see the note on the word “its” in v. 3).

[19:4]  ⁷ tn The verb is supplied in the translation. The Hebrew text has no verb; יָצָא (yatsa’, “goes out”) is understood by ellipsis.

[19:4]  ⁸ tn Heb “to the end of the world.”

[19:4]  ⁹ tn Heb “in them” (i.e., the heavens).

[19:4]  ¹⁰ sn He has pitched a tent for the sun. The personified sun emerges from this “tent” in order to make its daytime journey across the sky. So the “tent” must refer metaphorically to the place where the sun goes to rest during the night.

[74:16]  ¹¹ tn Heb “To you [is] day, also to you [is] night.”

[74:16]  ¹² tn Heb “[the] light.” Following the reference to “day and night” and in combination with “sun,” it is likely that the Hebrew term מָאוֹר (ma’or, “light”) refers here to the moon.

[74:16]  ¹³ tn Heb “you established [the] light and [the] sun.”

[74:17]  ¹⁴ tn This would appear to refer to geographical boundaries, such as mountains, rivers, and seacoasts. However, since the day-night cycle has just been mentioned (v. 16) and the next line speaks of the seasons, it is possible that “boundaries” here refers to the divisions of the seasons. See C. A. Briggs and E. G. Briggs, Psalms (ICC), 2:156.

[74:17]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “summer and winter, you, you formed them.”

[148:3]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “stars of light.”

[24:23]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “will be ashamed.”

[24:23]  ¹⁸ tn Or “glow of the sun.”

[24:23]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “will be ashamed” (so NCV).

[24:23]  ²⁰ tn Or “take his throne,” “become king.”

[24:23]  ²¹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[24:23]  ²² tn Heb “and before his elders [in] splendor.”

[38:8]  ²³ tn Heb “the shadow on the steps which [the sun] had gone down, on the steps of Ahaz, with the sun, back ten steps.”

[38:8]  ²⁴ tn Heb “and the sun returned ten steps on the steps which it had gone down.”

[2:10]  ²⁵ sn Witnesses of locust invasions have described the visual effect of large numbers of these creatures crawling over one another on the ground. At such times the ground is said to appear to be in motion, creating a dizzying effect on some observers. The reference in v. 10 to the darkening of the sun and moon probably has to do with the obscuring of visibility due to large numbers of locusts swarming in the sky.

[2:10]  ²⁶ tn Heb “before it.”

[2:10]  ²⁷ tn Heb “trembles.”

[2:10]  ²⁸ tn Heb “gather their brightness.”

[2:31]  ²⁹ tn Heb “to blood,” but no doubt this is intended to indicate by metonymy the color of blood rather than the substance itself. The blood red color suggests a visual impression here – something that could be caused by fires, volcanic dust, sandstorms, or other atmospheric phenomena.

[3:15]  ³⁰ tn Heb “gather in.”

[5:45]  ³¹ tn Grk “be sons of your Father in heaven.” Here, however, the focus is not on attaining a relationship (becoming a child of God) but rather on being the kind of person who shares the characteristics of God himself (a frequent meaning of the Semitic idiom “son of”). See L&N 58.26.

[24:29]  ³² tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[24:29]  ³³ tn Traditionally, “tribulation.”

[24:29]  ³⁴ sn An allusion to Isa 13:10, 34:4 (LXX); Joel 2:10. The heavens were seen as the abode of heavenly forces, so their shaking indicates distress in the spiritual realm. Although some take the powers as a reference to bodies in the heavens (like stars and planets, “the heavenly bodies,” NIV) this is not as likely.

[2:20]  ³⁵ tn Or “and wonderful.”

[6:12]  ³⁶ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.

[6:12]  ³⁷ tn Or “powerful”; Grk “a great.”

[6:12]  ³⁸ tn Or “like hairy sackcloth” (L&N 8.13).

[6:12]  ³⁹ tn Grk “like blood,” understanding αἷμα (aima) as a blood-red color rather than actual blood (L&N 8.64).

[8:12]  ⁴⁰ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.

[8:12]  ⁴¹ tn Grk “the day did not shine [with respect to] the third of it.”

[16:8]  ⁴² tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.

[16:8]  ⁴³ tn Grk “the fourth”; the referent (the fourth angel) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[16:8]  ⁴⁴ tn Grk “men,” but this is a generic use of ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") and refers to both men and women.

[16:9]  ⁴⁵ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “thus” to indicate the implied result of the bowl poured on the sun.

[16:9]  ⁴⁶ tn Grk “men,” but this is a generic use of ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") and refers to both men and women.

[16:9]  ⁴⁷ tn On this phrase BDAG 536 s.v. καῦμα states, “burning, heat Rv 7:16…καυματίζεσθαι κ. μέγα be burned with a scorching heat 16:9.”

[16:9]  ⁴⁸ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “yet” to indicate the contrast present in this context.

[16:9]  ⁴⁹ tn For the translation “ruling authority” for ἐξουσία (exousia) see L&N 37.35.