98 Bible Verses about Night

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Genesis 1:14-18

And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years: and let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made the two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.read more.
And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

Judges 19:9

And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the damsel's father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thy heart may be merry; and to-morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.

John 11:9-10

Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If a man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.

Genesis 15:12

And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.

Genesis 28:11

And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set. And he took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.

Job 4:13

In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men,

Psalm 42:3

My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

Jeremiah 9:1

Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

Jeremiah 14:17

And thou shalt say this word unto them, Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.

Nehemiah 1:6

Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee. Yea, I and my father's house have sinned:

Joshua 1:8

This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate thereon day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

Acts 26:7

unto which promise our twelve tribes, earnestly serving God night and day, hope to attain. And concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, O king!

Revelation 4:8

and the four living creatures, having each one of them six wings, are full of eyes round about and within: and they have no rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.

Revelation 7:15

Therefore are they before the throne of God; and they serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall spread his tabernacle over them.

1 Chronicles 9:33

And these are the singers, heads of fathers houses of the Levites, who dwelt in the chambers and were free from other service ; for they were employed in their work day and night.

2 Thessalonians 3:8

neither did we eat bread for nought at any man's hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you:

Lamentations 2:19

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.

Judges 7:19

So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.

Exodus 14:24

And it came to pass in the morning watch, that Jehovah looked forth upon the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and discomfited the host of the Egyptians.

Mark 13:35

Watch therefore: for ye know not when the lord of the house cometh, whether at even, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or in the morning;

Matthew 14:25

And in the fourth watch of the night he came unto them, walking upon the sea.

Mark 6:48

And seeing them distressed in rowing, for the wind was contrary unto them, about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them, walking on the sea; and he would have passed by them:

Luke 12:38

And if he shall come in the second watch, and if in the third, and find them'so blessed are those'servants .

John 13:30

He then having received the sop went out straightway: and it was night.

Job 30:26

When I looked for good, then evil came; And when I waited for light, there came darkness.

Luke 22:53

When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched not forth your hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.

Proverbs 2:13

Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;

John 3:19-20

And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his works should be reproved.

Job 24:14

The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief.

Proverbs 7:8-9

Passing through the street near her corner; And he went the way to her house, In the twilight, in the evening of the day, In the middle of the night and in the darkness.

1 Thessalonians 5:7

For they that sleep sleep in the night: and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.

Jeremiah 49:9

If grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, would they not destroy till they had enough?

John 12:35-36

Jesus therefore said unto them, Yet a little while is the light among you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness overtake you not: and he that walketh in the darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. While ye have the light, believe on the light, that ye may become sons of light. These things spake Jesus, and he departed and hid himself from them.

Matthew 24:42-44

Watch therefore: for ye know not on what day your Lord cometh. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through. Therefore be ye also ready; for in an hour that ye think not the Son of man cometh.

Mark 13:36-37

lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.

Psalm 107:13-14

Then they cried unto Jehovah in their trouble, And he saved them out of their distresses. He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, And brake their bonds in sunder.

Isaiah 59:9

Therefore is justice far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

Psalm 6:6

I am weary with my groaning; Every night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

Lamentations 1:2

She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; Among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her enemies.

Psalm 22:2

O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou answerest not; And in the night season, and am not silent.

Psalm 77:6

I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart; And my spirit maketh diligent search.

Psalm 139:1-2

O Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and known me . Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; Thou understandest my thought afar off.

Psalm 149:5

Let the saints exult in glory: Let them sing for joy upon their beds.

Isaiah 30:29

Ye shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come unto the mountain of Jehovah, to the Rock of Israel.

Psalm 63:6

When I remember thee upon my bed, And meditate on thee in the night-watches.

Psalm 119:55

I have remembered thy name, O Jehovah, in the night, And have observed thy law.

Isaiah 26:9

With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee earnestly: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

1 Samuel 3:4

that Jehovah called Samuel; and he said, Here am I.

2 Chronicles 7:12

And Jehovah appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice.

Daniel 2:19

Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.

Daniel 7:2

Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of heaven brake forth upon the great sea.

Zechariah 1:8

I saw in the night, and, behold, a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle-trees that were in the bottom; and behind him there were horses, red, sorrel, and white.

Acts 23:11

And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer: for as thou hast testified concerning me at Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.

Genesis 20:3

But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, because of the woman whom thou hast taken. For she is a man's wife.

Genesis 31:24

And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said unto him, Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

1 Kings 3:5

In Gibeon Jehovah appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.

Job 33:15

In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falleth upon men, In slumberings upon the bed;

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Genesis 32:24

And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.

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Exodus 12:42

It is a night to be much observed unto Jehovah for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of Jehovah, to be much observed of all the children of Israel throughout their generations.

Night » Divided into watches

1 Samuel 11:11

And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch, and smote the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to pass, that they that remained were scattered, so that not two of them were left together.

Exodus 14:24

And it came to pass in the morning watch, that Jehovah looked forth upon the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and discomfited the host of the Egyptians.

Nehemiah 12:9

Also Bakbukiah and Unno, their brethren, were over against them according to their offices.

Lamentations 2:19

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.

Matthew 14:25

And in the fourth watch of the night he came unto them, walking upon the sea.

Night » Type of ignorance and sin

Revelation 21:25

And the gates thereof shall in no wise be shut by day (for there shall be no night there):

Night » God frequently » Revealed his will in

Genesis 31:24

And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said unto him, Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

Numbers 22:30

And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden all thy life long unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee? and he said, Nay.

Daniel 7:2

Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of heaven brake forth upon the great sea.

Night » God frequently » Executed his judgments in

2 Kings 19:35

And it came to pass that night, that the angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

Exodus 12:12

For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Jehovah.

Job 27:20

Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest stealeth him away in the night.

Night » Used figuratively

Isaiah 15:1

The burden of Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nought; for in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nought.

Isaiah 21:11-12

The burden of Dumah. One calleth unto me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: turn ye, come.

Night » Originally divided into three watches

Exodus 14:24

And it came to pass in the morning watch, that Jehovah looked forth upon the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and discomfited the host of the Egyptians.

Lamentations 2:19

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.

Judges 7:19

So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.

Night » Frequently » Accompanied by heavy dews

Judges 6:38

And it was so; for he rose up early on the morrow, and pressed the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowlful of water.

Numbers 11:9

And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.

Judges 6:40

And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

Night » Divided into four watches by the romans

Matthew 14:25

And in the fourth watch of the night he came unto them, walking upon the sea.

Luke 12:38

And if he shall come in the second watch, and if in the third, and find them'so blessed are those'servants .

Mark 13:35

Watch therefore: for ye know not when the lord of the house cometh, whether at even, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or in the morning;

Night » Continued until sunrise

Psalm 104:22

The sun ariseth, they get them away, And lay them down in their dens.

Mark 16:2

And very early on the first day of the week, they come to the tomb when the sun was risen.

Night » General references to the natural

Psalm 19:2

Day unto day uttereth speech, And night unto night showeth knowledge.

Psalm 134:1

Behold, bless ye Jehovah, all ye servants of Jehovah, That by night stand in the house of Jehovah.

Night » The jews » In affliction spent, in sorrow and humiliation

Psalm 6:6

I am weary with my groaning; Every night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

Joel 1:13

Gird yourselves with sackcloth , and lament, ye priests; wail, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meal-offering and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God.

Night » The moon and stars designed to rule and give light by

Jeremiah 31:35

Thus saith Jehovah, who giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirreth up the sea, so that the waves thereof roar; Jehovah of hosts is his name:

Genesis 1:16-18

And God made the two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

Night » Wild beasts go forth in search of prey during

2 Samuel 21:10

And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water was poured upon them from heaven; and she suffered neither the birds of the heavens to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

Psalm 104:21-22

The young lions roar after their prey, And seek their food from God. The sun ariseth, they get them away, And lay them down in their dens.

Night » Meditations in

Psalm 19:2

Day unto day uttereth speech, And night unto night showeth knowledge.

Psalm 77:6

I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart; And my spirit maketh diligent search.

Psalm 119:148

Mine eyes anticipated the night-watches, That I might meditate on thy word.

Psalm 139:11

If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, And the light about me shall be night;

Night » Frequently » Cold and frosty

Jeremiah 36:30

Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David; and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.

Night » Regular succession of » Established by covenant

Jeremiah 33:20

Thus saith Jehovah: If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;

Night » Favorable to the purposes of the wicked

Genesis 31:39

That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

Job 24:14-15

The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief. The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, Saying, No eye shall see me: And he disguiseth his face.

Night » God frequently » Visited his people in

Psalm 17:3

Thou hast proved my heart; thou hast visited me in the night; Thou hast tried me, and findest nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

1 Kings 3:5

In Gibeon Jehovah appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.

Night » Eastern shepherds watched over their flocks during

Night » Illustrative of » Seasons of severe calamities

Amos 5:8

seek him that maketh the Pleiades and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth (Jehovah is his name);

Isaiah 21:12

The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: turn ye, come.

Night » Illustrative of » Seasons of spiritual desertion

Song of Songs 3:1

By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

Night » Eastern fishermen continued their employment during

Luke 5:5

And Simon answered and said, Master, we toiled all night, and took nothing: but at thy word I will let down the nets.

John 21:3

Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also come with thee. They went forth, and entered into the boat; and that night they took nothing.

Night » The jews » Forbidden to allow malefactors to hang during

Deuteronomy 21:23

his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt surely bury him the same day; for he that is hanged is accursed of God; that thou defile not thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

Night » The jews » Forbidden to keep the wages of servants during

Night » The jews » Often kept lamps burning during

Proverbs 31:18

She perceiveth that her merchandise is profitable: Her lamp goeth not out by night.

Night » No night in heaven

Revelation 21:25

And the gates thereof shall in no wise be shut by day (for there shall be no night there):

Night » Commenced at sunset

Genesis 28:11

And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set. And he took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.

Night » Illustrative of » Spiritual darkness

Night » Frequently » Exceeding dark

Proverbs 7:9

In the twilight, in the evening of the day, In the middle of the night and in the darkness.

Night » The heavenly bodies designed to separate day from

Night » Designed for rest

Night » Caused by God

Psalm 104:20

Thou makest darkness, and it is night, Wherein all the beasts of the forest creep forth.

Night » The darkness first called

Night » Belongs to God

Night » Regular succession of » Ordained for the glory of God

Psalm 19:2

Day unto day uttereth speech, And night unto night showeth knowledge.

Night » The jews » In affliction spent, in prayer

Psalm 22:2

O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou answerest not; And in the night season, and am not silent.

Night » Unsuitable for travelling

John 11:10

But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.

Night » Wearisome to the afflicted

Job 7:3-4

So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me. When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

Night » Illustrative of » death

Night » Divided into hours

Acts 23:23

And he called unto him two of the centurions, and said, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night:

Night » Worship in

Psalm 134:1

Behold, bless ye Jehovah, all ye servants of Jehovah, That by night stand in the house of Jehovah.

Night » Unsuitable for labor

Night » Jesus prays all night

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Genesis 32:24

And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.

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Acting All Night

Exodus 27:21

In the tent of meeting, without the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Jehovah: it shall be a statue for ever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.

Protection Day And Night

1 Samuel 25:16

they were a wall unto us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

Visions At Night

Genesis 40:5

And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.

Walking All Night

1 Samuel 31:12

all the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan; and they came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.

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