98 Bible Verses about Night

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Genesis 1:14-18

God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs to indicate seasons and days and years, and let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." It was so. God made two great lights -- the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light to rule over the night. He made the stars also.read more.
God placed the lights in the expanse of the sky to shine on the earth, to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

Judges 19:9

When the man got ready to leave with his concubine and his servant, his father-in-law, the girl's father, said to him, "Look! The day is almost over! Stay another night! Since the day is over, stay another night here and have a good time. You can get up early tomorrow and start your trip home."

John 11:9-10

Jesus replied, "Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. But if anyone walks around at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."

Genesis 15:12

When the sun went down, Abram fell sound asleep, and great terror overwhelmed him.

Genesis 28:11

He reached a certain place where he decided to camp because the sun had gone down. He took one of the stones and placed it near his head. Then he fell asleep in that place

Job 4:13

In the troubling thoughts of the dreams in the night when a deep sleep falls on men,

Jeremiah 9:1

I wish that my head were a well full of water and my eyes were a fountain full of tears! If they were, I could cry day and night for those of my dear people who have been killed.

Jeremiah 14:17

"Tell these people this, Jeremiah: 'My eyes overflow with tears day and night without ceasing. For my people, my dear children, have suffered a crushing blow. They have suffered a serious wound.

Nehemiah 1:6

may your ear be attentive and your eyes be open to hear the prayer of your servant that I am praying to you today throughout both day and night on behalf of your servants the Israelites. I am confessing the sins of the Israelites that we have committed against you -- both I myself and my family have sinned.

Psalm 88:1

A song, a psalm written by the Korahites; for the music director; according to the machalath-leannoth style; a well-written song by Heman the Ezrachite. O Lord God who delivers me! By day I cry out and at night I pray before you.

Acts 26:7

a promise that our twelve tribes hope to attain as they earnestly serve God night and day. Concerning this hope the Jews are accusing me, Your Majesty!

Revelation 4:8

Each one of the four living creatures had six wings and was full of eyes all around and inside. They never rest day or night, saying: "Holy Holy Holy is the Lord God, the All-Powerful, Who was and who is, and who is still to come!"

1 Chronicles 9:33

The musicians and Levite family leaders stayed in rooms at the sanctuary and were exempt from other duties, for day and night they had to carry out their assigned tasks.

2 Thessalonians 3:8

and we did not eat anyone's food without paying. Instead, in toil and drudgery we worked night and day in order not to burden any of you.

Lamentations 2:19

(Qof) Get up! Cry out in the night when the night watches start! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord! Lift up your hands to him for your children's lives; they are fainting at every street corner.

Judges 7:19

Gideon took a hundred men to the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after they had changed the guards. They blew their trumpets and broke the jars they were carrying.

Exodus 14:24

In the morning watch the Lord looked down on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and cloud, and he threw the Egyptian army into a panic.

Mark 13:35

Stay alert, then, because you do not know when the owner of the house will return -- whether during evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or at dawn --

Matthew 14:25

As the night was ending, Jesus came to them walking on the sea.

Mark 6:48

He saw them straining at the oars, because the wind was against them. As the night was ending, he came to them walking on the sea, for he wanted to pass by them.

Luke 12:38

Even if he comes in the second or third watch of the night and finds them alert, blessed are those slaves!

John 13:30

Judas took the piece of bread and went out immediately. (Now it was night.)

Job 30:26

But when I hoped for good, trouble came; when I expected light, then darkness came.

Luke 22:53

Day after day when I was with you in the temple courts, you did not arrest me. But this is your hour, and that of the power of darkness!"

John 3:19-20

Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.

Job 24:14

Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief.

Proverbs 7:8-9

He was passing by the street near her corner, making his way along the road to her house in the twilight, the evening, in the dark of the night.

Jeremiah 49:9

If grape pickers came to pick your grapes, would they not leave a few grapes behind? If robbers came at night, would they not pillage only what they needed?

John 12:35-36

Jesus replied, "The light is with you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going. While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become sons of light." When Jesus had said these things, he went away and hid himself from them.

Matthew 24:42-44

"Therefore stay alert, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have been alert and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

Mark 13:36-37

or else he might find you asleep when he returns suddenly. What I say to you I say to everyone: Stay alert!"

Psalm 107:13-14

They cried out to the Lord in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles. He brought them out of the utter darkness, and tore off their shackles.

Isaiah 59:9

For this reason deliverance is far from us and salvation does not reach us. We wait for light, but see only darkness; we wait for a bright light, but live in deep darkness.

Psalm 6:6

I am exhausted as I groan; all night long I drench my bed in tears; my tears saturate the cushion beneath me.

Lamentations 1:2

(Bet) She weeps bitterly at night; tears stream down her cheeks. She has no one to comfort her among all her lovers. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.

Psalm 22:2

My God, I cry out during the day, but you do not answer, and during the night my prayers do not let up.

Psalm 77:6

I said, "During the night I will remember the song I once sang; I will think very carefully." I tried to make sense of what was happening.

Psalm 139:1-2

For the music director, a psalm of David. O Lord, you examine me and know. You know when I sit down and when I get up; even from far away you understand my motives.

Psalm 149:5

Let the godly rejoice because of their vindication! Let them shout for joy upon their beds!

Isaiah 30:29

You will sing as you do in the evening when you are celebrating a festival. You will be happy like one who plays a flute as he goes to the mountain of the Lord, the Rock who shelters Israel.

Psalm 63:6

whenever I remember you on my bed, and think about you during the nighttime hours.

Psalm 119:55

I remember your name during the night, O Lord, and I will keep your law.

Isaiah 26:9

I look for you during the night, my spirit within me seeks you at dawn, for when your judgments come upon the earth, those who live in the world learn about justice.

1 Samuel 3:4

The Lord called to Samuel, and he replied, "Here I am!"

2 Chronicles 7:12

the Lord appeared to Solomon at night and said to him: "I have answered your prayer and chosen this place to be my temple where sacrifices are to be made.

Daniel 7:2

Daniel explained: "I was watching in my vision during the night as the four winds of the sky were stirring up the great sea.

Zechariah 1:8

I was attentive that night and saw a man seated on a red horse that stood among some myrtle trees in the ravine. Behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.

Acts 23:11

The following night the Lord stood near Paul and said, "Have courage, for just as you have testified about me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify in Rome."

Genesis 20:3

But God appeared to Abimelech in a dream at night and said to him, "You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is someone else's wife."

Genesis 31:24

But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and warned him, "Be careful that you neither bless nor curse Jacob."

1 Kings 3:5

One night in Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream. God said, "Tell me what I should give you."

Job 33:15

In a dream, a night vision, when deep sleep falls on people as they sleep in their beds.

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Exodus 12:42

It was a night of vigil for the Lord to bring them out from the land of Egypt, and so on this night all Israel is to keep the vigil to the Lord for generations to come.

Night » Divided into watches

1 Samuel 11:11

The next day Saul placed the people in three groups. They went to the Ammonite camp during the morning watch and struck them down until the hottest part of the day. The survivors scattered; no two of them remained together.

Exodus 14:24

In the morning watch the Lord looked down on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and cloud, and he threw the Egyptian army into a panic.

Nehemiah 12:9

Bakbukiah and Unni, their colleagues, stood opposite them in the services.

Lamentations 2:19

(Qof) Get up! Cry out in the night when the night watches start! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord! Lift up your hands to him for your children's lives; they are fainting at every street corner.

Matthew 14:25

As the night was ending, Jesus came to them walking on the sea.

Night » Type of ignorance and sin

Revelation 21:25

Its gates will never be closed during the day (and there will be no night there).

Night » God frequently » Revealed his will in

Genesis 31:24

But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and warned him, "Be careful that you neither bless nor curse Jacob."

Numbers 22:30

The donkey said to Balaam, "Am not I your donkey that you have ridden ever since I was yours until this day? Have I ever attempted to treat you this way?" And he said, "No."

Daniel 7:2

Daniel explained: "I was watching in my vision during the night as the four winds of the sky were stirring up the great sea.

Night » God frequently » Executed his judgments in

2 Kings 19:35

That very night the Lord's messenger went out and killed 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When they got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses.

Daniel 5:30

And in that very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, was killed.

Exodus 12:12

I will pass through the land of Egypt in the same night, and I will attack all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of humans and of animals, and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment. I am the Lord.

Job 27:20

Terrors overwhelm him like a flood; at night a whirlwind carries him off.

Night » Used figuratively

Isaiah 15:1

Here is a message about Moab: Indeed, in a night it is devastated, Ar of Moab is destroyed! Indeed, in a night it is devastated, Kir of Moab is destroyed!

Isaiah 21:11-12

Here is a message about Dumah: Someone calls to me from Seir, "Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?" The watchman replies, "Morning is coming, but then night. If you want to ask, ask; come back again."

Night » Originally divided into three watches

Exodus 14:24

In the morning watch the Lord looked down on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and cloud, and he threw the Egyptian army into a panic.

Lamentations 2:19

(Qof) Get up! Cry out in the night when the night watches start! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord! Lift up your hands to him for your children's lives; they are fainting at every street corner.

Judges 7:19

Gideon took a hundred men to the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after they had changed the guards. They blew their trumpets and broke the jars they were carrying.

Night » Frequently » Accompanied by heavy dews

Judges 6:38

The Lord did as he asked. When he got up the next morning, he squeezed the fleece, and enough dew dripped from it to fill a bowl.

Numbers 11:9

And when the dew came down on the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.)

Judges 6:40

That night God did as he asked. Only the fleece was dry and the ground around it was covered with dew.

Night » Divided into four watches by the romans

Matthew 14:25

As the night was ending, Jesus came to them walking on the sea.

Luke 12:38

Even if he comes in the second or third watch of the night and finds them alert, blessed are those slaves!

Mark 13:35

Stay alert, then, because you do not know when the owner of the house will return -- whether during evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or at dawn --

Night » Continued until sunrise

Psalm 104:22

When the sun rises, they withdraw and sleep in their dens.

Mark 16:2

And very early on the first day of the week, at sunrise, they went to the tomb.

Night » General references to the natural

Psalm 19:2

Day after day it speaks out; night after night it reveals his greatness.

Psalm 134:1

A song of ascents. Attention! Praise the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, who serve in the Lord's temple during the night.

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

Psalm 6:6

I am exhausted as I groan; all night long I drench my bed in tears; my tears saturate the cushion beneath me.

Joel 1:13

Get dressed and lament, you priests! Wail, you who minister at the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you servants of my God, because no one brings grain offerings or drink offerings to the temple of your God anymore.

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

Jeremiah 31:35

The Lord has made a promise to Israel. He promises it as the one who fixed the sun to give light by day and the moon and stars to give light by night. He promises it as the one who stirs up the sea so that its waves roll. He promises it as the one who is known as the Lord who rules over all.

Genesis 1:16-18

God made two great lights -- the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light to rule over the night. He made the stars also. God placed the lights in the expanse of the sky to shine on the earth, to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

Night » Wild beasts go forth in search of prey during

2 Samuel 21:10

Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain fell on them, she did not allow the birds of the air to feed on them by day, nor the wild animals by night.

Psalm 104:21-22

The lions roar for prey, seeking their food from God. When the sun rises, they withdraw and sleep in their dens.

Night » Meditations in

Psalm 19:2

Day after day it speaks out; night after night it reveals his greatness.

Psalm 77:6

I said, "During the night I will remember the song I once sang; I will think very carefully." I tried to make sense of what was happening.

Psalm 119:148

My eyes anticipate the nighttime hours, so that I can meditate on your word.

Psalm 139:11

If I were to say, "Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,"

Night » Frequently » Cold and frosty

Jeremiah 36:30

So the Lord says concerning King Jehoiakim of Judah, "None of his line will occupy the throne of David. His dead body will be thrown out to be exposed to scorching heat by day and frost by night.

Night » Regular succession of » Established by covenant

Jeremiah 33:20

"I, Lord, make the following promise: 'I have made a covenant with the day and with the night that they will always come at their proper times. Only if you people could break that covenant

Night » Favorable to the purposes of the wicked

Genesis 31:39

Animals torn by wild beasts I never brought to you; I always absorbed the loss myself. You always made me pay for every missing animal, whether it was taken by day or at night.

Job 24:14-15

Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief. And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight, thinking, 'No eye can see me,' and covers his face with a mask.

Night » God frequently » Visited his people in

Psalm 17:3

You have scrutinized my inner motives; you have examined me during the night. You have carefully evaluated me, but you find no sin. I am determined I will say nothing sinful.

1 Kings 3:5

One night in Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream. God said, "Tell me what I should give you."

Night » Eastern shepherds watched over their flocks during

Night » Illustrative of » Seasons of severe calamities

Amos 5:8

(But there is one who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion; he can turn the darkness into morning and daylight into night. He summons the water of the seas and pours it out on the earth's surface. The Lord is his name!

Isaiah 21:12

The watchman replies, "Morning is coming, but then night. If you want to ask, ask; come back again."

Night » Illustrative of » Seasons of spiritual desertion

Song of Songs 3:1

The Beloved about Her Lover: All night long on my bed I longed for my lover. I longed for him but he never appeared.

Night » Eastern fishermen continued their employment during

Luke 5:5

Simon answered, "Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing! But at your word I will lower the nets."

John 21:3

Simon Peter told them, "I am going fishing." "We will go with you," they replied. They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.

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

Deuteronomy 21:23

his body must not remain all night on the tree; instead you must make certain you bury him that same day, for the one who is left exposed on a tree is cursed by God. You must not defile your land which the Lord your God is giving you as 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 knows that her merchandise is good, and her lamp does not go out in the night.

Night » No night in heaven

Revelation 21:25

Its gates will never be closed during the day (and there will be no night there).

Night » Commenced at sunset

Genesis 28:11

He reached a certain place where he decided to camp because the sun had gone down. He took one of the stones and placed it near his head. Then he fell asleep in that place

Night » Illustrative of » Spiritual darkness

Night » Frequently » Exceeding dark

Proverbs 7:9

in the twilight, the evening, in the dark of the night.

Night » The heavenly bodies designed to separate day from

Night » Designed for rest

Night » Caused by God

Psalm 104:20

You make it dark and night comes, during which all the beasts of the forest prowl around.

Night » The darkness first called

Night » Belongs to God

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

Psalm 19:2

Day after day it speaks out; night after night it reveals his greatness.

Night » The jews » In affliction spent, in prayer

Psalm 22:2

My God, I cry out during the day, but you do not answer, and during the night my prayers do not let up.

Night » Unsuitable for travelling

John 11:10

But if anyone walks around at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."

Night » Wearisome to the afflicted

Job 7:3-4

thus I have been made to inherit months of futility, and nights of sorrow have been appointed to me. If I lie down, I say, 'When will I arise?', and the night stretches on and I toss and turn restlessly until the day dawns.

Night » Illustrative of » death

Night » Divided into hours

Acts 23:23

Then he summoned two of the centurions and said, "Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea along with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen by nine o'clock tonight,

Night » Worship in

Psalm 134:1

A song of ascents. Attention! Praise the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, who serve in the Lord's temple during the night.

Night » Unsuitable for labor

Night » Jesus prays all night

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Acting All Night

Exodus 27:21

In the tent of meeting outside the curtain that is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons are to arrange it from evening to morning before the Lord. This is to be a lasting ordinance among the Israelites for generations to come.

Protection Day And Night

1 Samuel 25:16

Both night and day they were a protective wall for us the entire time we were with them, while we were tending our flocks.

Visions At Night

Genesis 40:5

Both of them, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison, had a dream the same night. Each man's dream had its own meaning.

Walking All Night

1 Samuel 31:12

all their warriors set out and traveled throughout the night. They took Saul's corpse and the corpses of his sons from the city wall of Beth Shan and went to Jabesh, where they burned them.

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