17 Bible Verses About Astrology

  • Genesis 1:14 gives the lights in the sky their purpose: to separate day from night and to mark sacred times, days and years.
  • Deuteronomy 4:19 forbids Israel to bow down to the sun, moon and stars, and Deuteronomy 18:10-12 forbids divination and interpreting omens.
  • Isaiah 47:13-14 tells Babylon to let its astrologers, “those stargazers who make predictions month by month,” save the city, and says they cannot save themselves.
  • 2 Kings 23:5 records King Josiah removing the priests who burned incense to the sun, moon, constellations and starry hosts.
  • In Daniel 2 the king’s astrologers say no one on earth can tell his dream, and Daniel answers that “there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries.”

The Bible treats the lights in the sky as things God made and named, forbids his people to worship them or be terrified by signs in the heavens, and mocks the stargazers who make predictions month by month. Genesis 1:14 gives the lights in the sky their work, and Psalm 147:4 says God calls the stars by name. Deuteronomy 4:19 forbids bowing down to the heavenly array, Deuteronomy 18:10-12 forbids divination and interpreting omens, and Jeremiah 10:2 tells Israel not…

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