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Joel 2:31

The sun will be turned to darkness

and the moon to blood

before the coming of the great and awesome

Day of the LORD.

Joel 2:31 BSB
  1. a Or dreadful; LXX glorious

Joel 2:31 has 13 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 11 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Revelation 6:12–13 (16 votes) and Matthew 24:29 (13 votes). 46 other verses point back to it. It links with 20 other books, from Genesis 1 to Revelation 8.

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Which verses does Joel 2:31 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Revelation 6:12–1316 votes

    And I watched as the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red, and the stars of the sky fell to the earth like unripe figs dropping from a tree shaken by a great wind.

  2. Matthew 24:2913 votes

    Immediately after the tribulation of those days: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’

  3. Malachi 4:112 votes

    “For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”

  4. Malachi 4:510 votes

    Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.

  5. Joel 3:158 votes

    The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will no longer shine.

  6. Joel 2:107 votes

    Before them the earth quakes; the heavens tremble. The sun and moon grow dark, and the stars lose their brightness.

  7. Zephaniah 1:14–167 votes

    The great Day of the LORD is near—near and coming quickly. Listen, the Day of the LORD! Then the cry of the mighty will be bitter. That day will be a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness, …

  8. Mark 13:24–257 votes

    But in those days, after that tribulation: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’

  9. Isaiah 13:9–106 votes

    Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming—cruel, with fury and burning anger—to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it. For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.

  10. Luke 21:255 votes

    There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.

  11. Joel 3:14 votes
  12. Isaiah 34:4–53 votes
  13. Matthew 27:453 votes

Which verses point to Joel 2:31?

The 10 strongest of 46.