Reference: Watches, Night
Morish
There were with the Israelites three night watches:
1. From sunset (about 6 P.M.) to 10 P.M. La 2:19.
2. The middle watch, from 10 P.M. to 2 A.M. Jg 7:19.
3. From 2 A.M. till sunrise. 1Sa 11:11. Under the Romans there were four night watches, agreeing with the changes of the Roman guards, each being of three hours' duration, from sunset to sunrise. They were sometimes called evening, midnight, cock-crowing and morning. Mt 14:25; 24:43; Mr 6:48; 13:35; Lu 12:38.
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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.
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.
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.
And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went to them, walking on the sea.
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.
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.
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;
And if he comes in the second watch, or comes in the third watch, and find it so, blessed are those servants.