Matthew 27:45
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From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.
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And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.
I clothe the heavens in black and make sackcloth their covering.”
The star opened the pit of the Abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.
It was the third hour when they crucified Him.
Then the fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun and moon and stars were struck. A third of the stars were darkened, a third of the day was without light, and a third of the night as well.