Moon, The

The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.

• Genesis 1:14Torrey Created by God

  ¶ 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:

• Genesis 1:15Torrey APPOINTED — For a light in the firmament

  And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

• Genesis 1:16Torrey Called the lesser light

  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.

• Deuteronomy 4:19Torrey APPOINTED — For the benefit of all

  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…

• Deuteronomy 17:3–6Torrey WORSHIPPING OF — To be punished with death

  And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing…

• Deuteronomy 33:14Torrey Influences vegetation

  And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon,

• Joshua 10:12Torrey MIRACLES CONNECTED WITH — Standing still in Ajalon

  ¶ Then spake Joshua 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 thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.

• Joshua 10:13Torrey MIRACLES CONNECTED WITH — Standing still in Ajalon

  And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

• 1 Samuel 20:5Torrey First appearance of, a time of festivity

  And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field unto the third day at even.

• 1 Samuel 20:6Torrey First appearance of, a time of festivity

  If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Beth-lehem his city: for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.

• 2 Kings 23:5Torrey WORSHIPPING OF — Jews often guilty of

  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…

• Job 31:26Torrey DESCRIBED AS — Bright

  If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;