with the best the sun brings forth and the finest the moon can yield;

• Deuteronomy 33:14

if I have regarded the sun in its radiance or the moon moving in splendor,

• Job 31:26

May he endure as long as the sun, as long as the moon, through all generations.

• Psalm 72:5

Praise him, sun and moon; praise him, all you shining stars.

• Psalm 148:3

The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.

• 1 Corinthians 15:41

This quiz was inspired by an error.  In Jeremiah 33, I was thinking that God told Jeremiah, and through him the people of Judah, that as long as God maintained His covenant with the sun and moon, He would keep a king from David’s line.  I was in error.  The covenant was with day and night.  Oops!  But enjoy the quiz anyway.

This is a quiz about verses containing both the words “sun” and “moon.”

The questions are in biblical order.  And most questions are from the Old Testament.

The Questions:

	Question	Bible References	Answers
1	The first time sun and moon appear in the same verse is in the telling of a dream.  Who had the dream and who were the eleven stars that bowed down to him?
2	Why does Moses, in the book of Deuteronomy forbid worshiping the sun, moon, and stars?
3	A two-part question: When God stopped the sun so that Joshua could defeat his enemies, did the moon also stop and how long did the sun stop?
4	Who was the king of Judah who, once a scroll of the Law was found, made widespread changes including expelling the priests who worshipped, Baal, the sun, the moon, etc.?  The king was roughly 26 when this happened.
5	The psalmist wrote in Psalm 104 that God tells the sun when to rise in the morning and what does the psalmist say the moon does?
6	According to Jeremiah, who appoints the sun to shine, the moon and stars to shine at night, and stirs up the sea to make the waves roar?
7	While Joel talks about the sun and moon being darkened, he also mentions what astronomical event that Peter confirms happened when Jesus was crucified during his sermon on Pentecost?
8	When Jesus was crucified, what happened to the sun and the moon?
9	In prophetic imagery, a woman is seen in the heavens, clothed in the sun with the moon at her feet.  She is pregnant and what red creature waits to devour her child the moment it is born?
10	Why does the sun and moon not need to shine in the New Jerusalem

I had one thought for a quiz that I decided was better done in the summer – just whimsical, since the previous two quizzes like it were in the summer.  That gave me a big hole.  I previously mentioned God’s covenant with Day and Night, from Jeremiah 33, but as I sat in the recliner, praying for some idea, I heard two songs in succession.  These were both romance songs, since I had the television tuned to Singers and Swing, and it was in a four-hour block of “singers.”

The first was Mel Torme singing No Moon at All.  The song is about how the great romantics talk about love in the moonlight, but this was the perfect night for romance – no moon at all.  So, what do “they” know anyway.

The next song, immediately after that one about the moon, was sung by Diana Krall, Midnight Sun.  So, when I was thinking about the covenant with day and night and then heard songs about moon and sun, I hope you can forgive my error.

By the way, although not Christian songs, I have these two renditions below.

Bible References:

	Question	Bible References	Answers
1	The first time sun and moon appear in the same verse is in the telling of a dream.  Who had the dream and who were the eleven stars that bowed down to him?	Genesis 37:9
2	Why does Moses, in the book of Deuteronomy forbid worshiping the sun, moon, and stars?	Deuteronomy 4:19
3	A two-part question: When God stopped the sun so that Joshua could defeat his enemies, did the moon also stop and how long did the sun stop?	Joshua 10:13
4	Who was the king of Judah who, once a scroll of the Law was found, made widespread changes including expelling the priests who worshipped, Baal, the sun, the moon, etc.?  The king was roughly 26 when this happened.	2 Kings 23:5, but the name of the king mentioned in the previous chapter
5	The psalmist wrote in Psalm 104 that God tells the sun when to rise in the morning and what does the psalmist say the moon does?	Psalm 104:19
6	According to Jeremiah, who appoints the sun to shine, the moon and stars to shine at night, and stirs up the sea to make the waves roar?	Jeremiah 31:35
7	While Joel talks about the sun and moon being darkened, he also mentions what astronomical event that Peter confirms happened when Jesus was crucified during his sermon on Pentecost?	Joel 2:31
8	When Jesus was crucified, what happened to the sun and the moon?	Matthew 24:29; Mark 13:24
9	In prophetic imagery, a woman is seen in the heavens, clothed in the sun with the moon at her feet.  She is pregnant and what red creature waits to devour her child the moment it is born?	Revelation 12:1-4
10	Why does the sun and moon not need to shine in the New Jerusalem	Revelation 21:23

Peter quoted Joel regarding the sun being darkened and the moon being darkened.  But this phenomenon is also prophesied in Isaiah 13:10, Isaiah 34:4, Ezekiel 32:7, Zephaniah 1:15, Revelation 6:12-13, and Revelation 8:12.  The references in Revelation meaning this phenomenon will happen again.

While the astrological event mentioned in Peter’s Pentecost sermon was mentioned in Joel 2:31, with the darkening of both in Joel 2:10, the darkening of sun and moon during the day Jesus was crucified could not have been considered an accident, especially to the religious leaders.  Too many prophets mentioned it.  Of course, the Apostle John had not yet written the Revelation.

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The Answers:

	Question	Bible References	Answers
1	The first time sun and moon appear in the same verse is in the telling of a dream.  Who had the dream and who were the eleven stars that bowed down to him?	Genesis 37:9	Joseph had two dreams, but in this one the sun, moon, and eleven stars bowed down to him and when he told the dream to his eleven brothers, they did not take it well.
2	Why does Moses, in the book of Deuteronomy forbid worshiping the sun, moon, and stars?	Deuteronomy 4:19	We should never turn anything God made into an idol to be worshipped.
3	A two-part question: When God stopped the sun so that Joshua could defeat his enemies, did the moon also stop and how long did the sun stop?	Joshua 10:13	The moon also stopped, and the sun remained stopped for roughly a full day.
4	Who was the king of Judah who, once a scroll of the Law was found, made widespread changes including expelling the priests who worshipped, Baal, the sun, the moon, etc.?  The king was roughly 26 when this happened.	2 Kings 23:5, but the name of the king mentioned in the previous chapter	Josiah
5	The psalmist wrote in Psalm 104 that God tells the sun when to rise in the morning and what does the psalmist say the moon does?	Psalm 104:19	The moon marks the seasons.
6	According to Jeremiah, who appoints the sun to shine, the moon and stars to shine at night, and stirs up the sea to make the waves roar?	Jeremiah 31:35	The Almighty Lord is His name.
7	While Joel talks about the sun and moon being darkened, he also mentions what astronomical event that Peter confirms happened when Jesus was crucified during his sermon on Pentecost?	Joel 2:31	There was a blood moon, a total lunar eclipse where the sun blocks all the light to the moon, except for light that is bent through the earth’s atmosphere, giving it a red hue.
8	When Jesus was crucified, what happened to the sun and the moon?	Matthew 24:29; Mark 13:24	The sun was darkened and the moon did not give its light.
9	In prophetic imagery, a woman is seen in the heavens, clothed in the sun with the moon at her feet.  She is pregnant and what red creature waits to devour her child the moment it is born?	Revelation 12:1-4	A red dragon, but the child is brought to God in Heaven and the red dragon, the serpent, Satan is cast down by Michael and his angels.
10	Why does the sun and moon not need to shine in the New Jerusalem	Revelation 21:23	God will be its Light.

Some of these questions seem a little clunky, but my head is in a fog today.

Whether you did well on this quiz or, ummm, not so well, for the first video.  Here is Mel Torme singing No More at All.

And here is Diana Krall singing Midnight Sun.

And here is Phil Wickham singing Sun and Moon.

If you like these Saturday morning Bible quizzes, but you think you missed a few, you can use this LINK. I have set up a page off the home page for links to these Saturday morning posts. I will continue to modify the page as I add more.

Soli Deo Gloria.  Only to God be the Glory.