Verses with the word sun in the Apocrypha (35 verses):
1 Esdras 4:34
O ye men, are not women strong? great is the earth, high is the heaven, swift is the sun in his course, for he compasseth the heavens round about, and fetcheth his course again to his own place in one day.
2 Esdras 5:4
But if the most High grant thee to live, thou shalt see after the third trumpet that the sun shall suddenly shine again in the night, and the moon thrice in the day:
2 Esdras 6:45
Upon the fourth day thou commandedst that the sun should shine, and the moon give her light, and the stars should be in order:
2 Esdras 15:20
Behold, saith God, I will call together all the kings of the earth to reverence me, which are from the rising of the sun, from the south, from the east, and Libanus; to turn themselves one against another, and repay the things that they have done to them.
Tobit 2:4
Then before I had tasted of any meat, I started up, and took him up into a room until the going down of the sun.
Tobit 2:7
Therefore I wept: and after the going down of the sun I went and made a grave, and buried him.
Judith 14:2
And so soon as the morning shall appear, and the sun shall come forth upon the earth, take ye every one his weapons, and go forth every valiant man out of the city, and set ye a captain over them, as though ye would go down into the field toward the watch of the Assyrians; but go not down.
Wisdom of Solomon 2:4
And our name shall be forgotten in time, and no man shall have our works in remembrance, and our life shall pass away as the trace of a cloud, and shall be dispersed as a mist, that is driven away with the beams of the sun, and overcome with the heat thereof.
Wisdom of Solomon 5:6
Therefore have we erred from the way of truth, and the light of righteousness hath not shined unto us, and the sun of righteousness rose not upon us.
Wisdom of Solomon 7:18
The beginning, ending, and midst of the times: the alterations of the turning of the sun, and the change of seasons:
Wisdom of Solomon 7:29
For she is more beautiful than the sun, and above all the order of stars: being compared with the light, she is found before it.
Wisdom of Solomon 16:28
That it might be known, that we must prevent the sun to give thee thanks, and at the dayspring pray unto thee.
Wisdom of Solomon 18:3
Instead whereof thou gavest them a burning pillar of fire, both to be a guide of the unknown journey, and an harmless sun to entertain them honourably.
Sirach 17:19
Therefore all their works are as the sun before him, and his eyes are continually upon their ways.
Sirach 17:31
What is brighter than the sun? yet the light thereof faileth; and flesh and blood will imagine evil.
Sirach 23:19
Such a man only feareth the eyes of men, and knoweth not that the eyes of the Lord are ten thousand times brighter than the sun, beholding all the ways of men, and considering the most secret parts.
Sirach 26:16
As the sun when it ariseth in the high heaven; so is the beauty of a good wife in the ordering of her house.
Sirach 33:7
Why doth one day excel another, when as all the light of every day in the year is of the sun?
Sirach 34:16
For the eyes of the Lord are upon them that love him, he is their mighty protection and strong stay, a defence from heat, and a cover from the sun at noon, a preservation from stumbling, and an help from falling.
Sirach 42:16
The sun that giveth light looketh upon all things, and the work thereof is full of the glory of the Lord.
Sirach 43:2
The sun when it appeareth, declaring at his rising a marvellous instrument, the work of the most High:
Sirach 43:4
A man blowing a furnace is in works of heat, but the sun burneth the mountains three times more; breathing out fiery vapours, and sending forth bright beams, it dimmeth the eyes.
Sirach 46:4
Did not the sun go back by his means? and was not one day as long as two?
Sirach 48:23
In his time the sun went backward, and he lengthened the king's life.
Sirach 50:7
As the sun shining upon the temple of the most High, and as the rainbow giving light in the bright clouds:
Additions to Esther 10:6
A little fountain became a river, and there was light, and the sun, and much water: this river is Esther, whom the king married, and made queen:
Additions to Esther 11:11
The light and the sun rose up, and the lowly were exalted, and devoured the glorious.
Letter of Jeremiah 1:59
For sun, moon, and stars, being bright and sent to do their offices, are obedient.
Letter of Jeremiah 1:66
Neither can they shew signs in the heavens among the heathen, nor shine as the sun, nor give light as the moon.
Additions to Daniel 1:40
O ye sun and moon, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever.
1 Maccabees 6:39
Now when the sun shone upon the shields of gold and brass, the mountains glistered therewith, and shined like lamps of fire.
1 Maccabees 10:50
And he continued the battle very sore until the sun went down: and that day was Demetrius slain.
1 Maccabees 12:27
Wherefore so soon as the sun was down, Jonathan commanded his men to watch, and to be in arms, that all the night long they might be ready to fight: also he sent forth centinels round about the host.
2 Maccabees 1:22
When this was done, and the time came that the sun shone, which afore was hid in the cloud, there was a great fire kindled, so that every man marvelled.
2 Maccabees 10:28
Now the sun being newly risen, they joined both together; the one part having together with their virtue their refuge also unto the Lord for a pledge of their success and victory: the other side making their rage leader of their battle
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