98 Bible Verses about Night

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Genesis 1:14-18

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

Judges 19:9

And when the man rose up to leave, he and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the girl's father said to him, Behold, now the day draws toward evening. Please stay all night. Behold, the day grows to an end. Stay here so that your heart may be merry. And tomorrow go early on your way, so that you may go to your tent.

John 11:9-10

Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble because he sees the light of the world. But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles because there is no light in him.

Genesis 15:12

And it happened as the sun was setting, and a deep sleep fell upon Abram. And, behold, a horror of great darkness fell upon him!

Genesis 28:11

And he came on a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. And he took of the stones of that place, and placed them at his head. And he lay down in that place to sleep.

Job 4:13

In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men,

Psalm 42:3

My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day, Where is your God?

Jeremiah 9:1

Oh that my head were waters, and my 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 you shall speak this word to them: Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and do not let them cease. For the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great break, with a very grievous blow.

Nehemiah 1:6

let Your ear now be open, and Your eyes open, so that You may hear the prayer of Your servant, which I pray before You now, day and night, for the sons of Israel Your servants, and confessing the sins of the sons of Israel which we have sinned against You. Both I and my father's house have sinned.

Psalm 88:1

A Song. A Psalm for the sons of Korah. To the Chief Musician. On Mahalath, to make humble. A Poem of Heman the Ezrahite. O Jehovah, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before You.

Luke 18:7

And shall not God avenge His own elect who cry day and night to Him, though He has been long-suffering over them?

Joshua 1:8

This book of the Law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it by day and by night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall act wisely.

Acts 26:7

to which promise our twelve tribes hope to attain, serving God fervently night and day. For the sake of this hope, king Agrippa, I am accused by the Jews.

1 Chronicles 9:33

And these were the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites in the chambers, they were free of duty, for they were employed in that work day and night.

2 Thessalonians 3:8

neither did we eat any man's bread freely, but we worked with labor and travail night and day, so that we might not be heavy on any of you

Lamentations 2:19

Arise, cry out in the night. At the beginning of the watches, pour out your heart like water before the face of Jehovah. Lift up your hands toward Him for the life of your children who are faint for hunger in the head of every street.

Judges 7:19

So Gideon and the hundred men with him came to the edge of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch. And they had but newly set the watch. And they blew the ram's horns and broke the pitchers that were in their hands.

Exodus 14:24

And in the morning watch it happened that Jehovah looked to the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the army of the Egyptians.

Mark 13:35

Then you watch, for you do not know when the lord of the house is coming, at evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or early;

Matthew 14:25

And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went to them, walking on the sea.

Mark 6:48

And He saw them toiling in rowing, for the wind was contrary to them. And about the fourth watch of the night He came toward them walking on the sea, and would have passed by them.

Luke 12:38

And if he comes in the second watch, or comes in the third watch, and find it so, blessed are those servants.

John 13:30

He then, having received the morsel, went out immediately. And it was night.

Job 30:26

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

Luke 22:53

When I was with you in the temple daily, you did not stretch out your hand on Me. But this is your hour, and the authority of the darkness.

Proverbs 2:13

those who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,

John 3:19-20

And this is the condemnation, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the Light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, lest his deeds should be exposed.

Job 24:14

The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and needy, and in the night he is 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, in the black and dark night.

1 Thessalonians 5:7

For those sleeping sleep in the night, and those being drunken are drunken in the night.

Jeremiah 49:9

If the gatherers of grapes come to you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? If thieves come by night, they will destroy until they have enough.

John 12:35-36

Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while the Light is with you. Walk while you have the Light, lest darkness come upon you. For he who walks in darkness does not know where he goes. While you have the Light, believe in the Light so that you may become sons of Light. Jesus spoke these things and departed and was hidden from them.

Matthew 24:42-44

Therefore watch; for you do not know what hour your Lord comes. But know this, that if the steward of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched and would not have allowed his house to be dug through. Therefore you also be ready, for in that hour you think not, the Son of Man comes.

Matthew 25:13

Therefore watch, for you do not know either the day or the hour in which the Son of Man comes.

Mark 13:36-37

lest he come suddenly and find you sleeping. And what I say to you, I say to all. Watch.

Psalm 107:13-14

Then they cried to Jehovah in their distress, and He saved them out of their troubles. He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bands in two.

Isaiah 59:9

Therefore judgment is far from us; nor does justice overtake us. We wait for light, but behold, dimness; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

Psalm 6:6

I am weary in my groaning; all the night I make my bed swim; I melt my couch with my tears.

Lamentations 1:2

She bitterly weeps in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers, she has none to comfort her. All her friends have dealt deceitfully with her; they became her enemies.

Psalm 22:2

O my God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not answer; and in the night, and am not silent.

Psalm 77:6

I remember my song in the night; I speak with my own heart, and my spirit carefully searches.

Psalm 139:1-2

To the Chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O Jehovah, You have searched me and have known me. You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off.

Psalm 149:5

Let the saints be joyful in glory; let them sing aloud on their beds.

Isaiah 30:29

You shall have a song, as in the keeping of a holy feast night; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come into the mountain of Jehovah, to the mighty One of Israel.

Psalm 63:6

when I remember You on my bed and think of You in the night watches.

Psalm 119:55

I have remembered Your name, O Jehovah, in the night, and have kept Your Law.

Isaiah 26:9

With my soul I desired You in the night; yea, with my spirit within me I will seek You early; for when Your judgments are in the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.

1 Samuel 3:4

And Jehovah called Samuel. And he answered, Here am I.

2 Chronicles 7:12

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

Daniel 7:2

Daniel spoke and said, In my vision by night I was looking: and behold, the four winds of the heavens were stirring up the Great Sea.

Zechariah 1:8

I watched by night. And behold! a Man riding on a red horse, and He stood among the myrtle trees in the ravine. And behind Him were red, sorrel and white horses.

Acts 23:11

And the following night the Lord stood by him and said, Be of good cheer, Paul, for as you have testified of Me in Jerusalem, so you also must bear witness at Rome.

Genesis 20:3

But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, you are about to die, for the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man's wife.

Genesis 31:24

And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said to him, Take heed that you do not speak either good or bad to Jacob.

1 Kings 3:5

In Gibeon Jehovah appeared to Solomon in a dream by night. And God said, Ask what I shall give you!

Job 33:15

In a dream, a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men; while they slumber on the bed;

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Genesis 32:24

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

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Exodus 12:42

It is a night to be much kept to Jehovah for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of Jehovah to be kept by all the sons of Israel in their generations.

Night » Divided into watches

1 Samuel 11:11

And it was so on the next day, Saul put the people in three companies, and they came into the middle of the army at the morning watch. And they killed the Ammonites until the heat of the day. And the ones who remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together.

Exodus 14:24

And in the morning watch it happened that Jehovah looked to the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the army of the Egyptians.

Nehemiah 12:9

And Bakbukiah and Unni, their brothers, were next to them in the watches.

Lamentations 2:19

Arise, cry out in the night. At the beginning of the watches, pour out your heart like water before the face of Jehovah. Lift up your hands toward Him for the life of your children who are faint for hunger in the head of every street.

Matthew 14:25

And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went to them, walking on the sea.

Night » Type of ignorance and sin

Revelation 21:25

And its gates may not be shut at all 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 by night, and said to him, Take heed that you do not speak either good or bad to Jacob.

Numbers 22:30

And the ass said to Balaam, Am I not your ass, upon which you have ridden ever since I was yours, to this day? Was I ever known to do so to you? And he said, No.

Daniel 7:2

Daniel spoke and said, In my vision by night I was looking: and behold, the four winds of the heavens were stirring up the Great Sea.

Night » God frequently » Executed his judgments in

2 Kings 19:35

And it happened that night, the Angel of Jehovah went out and struck a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. And they arose early in the morning, and behold, they were all dead bodies.

Daniel 5:30

In that night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was killed.

Exodus 12:12

For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. And I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt. I am Jehovah.

Job 27:20

Terrors overtake him like waters; a tempest steals him away in the night.

Night » Used figuratively

Isaiah 15:1

The burden of Moab. Because in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste; it is cut off; because in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste; it is cut off.

Isaiah 21:11-12

The burden against Dumah: He calls to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? The watchman said, The morning comes, and also the night; if you will inquire, inquire, and come again.

Night » Originally divided into three watches

Exodus 14:24

And in the morning watch it happened that Jehovah looked to the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the army of the Egyptians.

Lamentations 2:19

Arise, cry out in the night. At the beginning of the watches, pour out your heart like water before the face of Jehovah. Lift up your hands toward Him for the life of your children who are faint for hunger in the head of every street.

Judges 7:19

So Gideon and the hundred men with him came to the edge of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch. And they had but newly set the watch. And they blew the ram's horns and broke 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 in the morning and gathered the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full 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 Jesus went to them, walking on the sea.

Luke 12:38

And if he comes in the second watch, or comes in the third watch, and find it so, blessed are those servants.

Mark 13:35

Then you watch, for you do not know when the lord of the house is coming, at evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or early;

Night » Continued until sunrise

Psalm 104:22

The sun rises; they are gathered, and go to their dens to lie down.

Mark 16:2

And very early in the morning, the first day of the week, they came upon the tomb, the sun having risen.

Night » General references to the natural

Psalm 19:2

Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.

Psalm 134:1

A Song of degrees. Behold, bless Jehovah, all servants of Jehovah, who stand by night in the house of Jehovah.

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

Psalm 6:6

I am weary in my groaning; all the night I make my bed swim; I melt my couch with my tears.

Joel 1:13

Gird up and lament, priests; howl, ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, ministers of my God. For the food offering and the drink offering are held back from the house of your God.

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

Jeremiah 31:35

So says Jehovah, who gives the sun for a light by day and the laws of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who divides the sea when its waves roar; Jehovah of Hosts is His name;

Genesis 1:16-18

And God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the smaller light to rule the night, and the stars also. And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night; and to divide between the light and 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 herself upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven. And she did not allow either the birds of the air 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 rises; they are gathered, and go to their dens to lie down.

Night » Meditations in

Psalm 19:2

Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.

Psalm 77:6

I remember my song in the night; I speak with my own heart, and my spirit carefully searches.

Psalm 119:148

My eyes go before the night watches, so that I might think on Your Word.

Psalm 139:11

If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me, even the night shall be light around me.

Night » Frequently » Cold and frosty

Jeremiah 36:30

Therefore so says Jehovah of Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have no one to sit on 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

So says Jehovah: If you can break My covenant of the day and My covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season,

Night » Favorable to the purposes of the wicked

Genesis 31:39

That which was mangled I did not bring to you; I bore the loss of it. You required it at my hand, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night.

Job 24:14-15

The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and needy, and in the night he is a thief. And the eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a covering on his face.

Night » God frequently » Visited his people in

Psalm 17:3

You have proved my heart; You have visited me in the night; You have tried me, and You will find nothing; my thoughts do not pass beyond my mouth.

1 Kings 3:5

In Gibeon Jehovah appeared to Solomon in a dream by night. And God said, Ask what I shall give you!

Night » Eastern shepherds watched over their flocks during

Night » Illustrative of » Seasons of severe calamities

Amos 5:8

seek Him who created the Pleiades and Orion, and who turned the deep darkness into the morning and He darkened the day into night. Seek Him who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the face of the earth; Jehovah is His name;

Isaiah 21:12

The watchman said, The morning comes, and also the night; if you will inquire, inquire, and come again.

Night » Illustrative of » Seasons of spiritual desertion

Song of Songs 3:1

By night on my bed I sought Him whom my soul loved; I sought Him, but I did not find Him.

Night » Eastern fishermen continued their employment during

Luke 5:5

And answering, Simon said to Him, Master, we have toiled all the night and have taken nothing. Yet at Your word I will let down the net.

John 21:3

Simon Peter said to them, I am going out to fish. They said to him, We will go with you also. They went out and entered into a boat immediately. And that night they caught nothing.

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

Deuteronomy 21:23

his body shall not remain all night on the tree. But you shall surely bury him that day (for he that is hanged is accursed of God), so that your land may not be defiled, which Jehovah your God gives you 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 sees that her merchandise is good; her lamp does not go out by night.

Night » No night in heaven

Revelation 21:25

And its gates may not be shut at all by day, for there shall be no night there.

Night » Commenced at sunset

Genesis 28:11

And he came on a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. And he took of the stones of that place, and placed them at his head. And he 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, in the black and dark night.

Night » The heavenly bodies designed to separate day from

Night » Designed for rest

Night » Caused by God

Psalm 104:20

You make darkness, and it is night, in which 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 to day pours forth speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.

Night » The jews » In affliction spent, in prayer

Psalm 22:2

O my God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not answer; and in the night, and am not silent.

Night » Unsuitable for travelling

John 11:10

But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles because there is no light in him.

Night » Wearisome to the afflicted

Job 7:3-4

so I am made to possess months of vanity, and weary nights are appointed to me. When I lie down, I say, When shall I rise? But the night is long, and I am full of tossing to and fro until the dawning of the day.

Night » Illustrative of » death

Night » Divided into hours

Acts 23:23

And he called two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen, at the third hour of the night.

Night » Worship in

Psalm 134:1

A Song of degrees. Behold, bless Jehovah, all servants of Jehovah, who stand by night 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 a Man wrestled there with him until the breaking of the day.

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Acting All Night

Exodus 27:21

in the tabernacle of the congregation, outside the veil which is before the testimony. Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before Jehovah. It shall be a statute forever to their generations on behalf of the sons of Israel.

Protection Day And Night

1 Samuel 25:16

They were a wall to us both by night and day all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

Three Days And Nights

Jonah 1:17

And Jehovah had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

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 cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.

Walking All Night

1 Samuel 31:12

then all the brave men arose, and they traveled all night. And they took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and came to Jabesh, and burned them there.

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