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Summary
- Three stars in a row is Orion’s belt, and Orion is named twice in Scripture — Job 38:31 and Amos 5:8 — in passages about who made it.
- Job is asked whether he can loosen Orion’s belt. The constellation is furniture in an argument about scale, not a message.
- Genesis 15:5 makes the stars a promise to a childless man in the dark; Psalm 147:4 says God counts them and calls them each by name — and the next verse is about the brokenhearted.
- Scripture is unambiguous about astrology: Isaiah 47:13 mocks stargazers as unable to save, and Jeremiah 10:2 says not to be terrified by signs in the heavens.
- Even the star of Bethlehem brought the Magi to the wrong palace; the town came from a text quoted by Herod’s scribes.
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Sources: Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (Job 38:31-32; Amos 5:8; Genesis 15:5; Psalm 8; 147:3-4; Isaiah 47:13; Deuteronomy 4:19; Jeremiah 10:2; Matthew 2:1-12; Revelation 22:16). The identification of the three stars in a row as Orion’s belt, and its visibility in the northern hemisphere from late autumn to early spring, are matters of observation.
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