98 Bible Verses about Night

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Genesis 1:14-18

Then God said, "Let there be lights across the sky to distinguish day from night, to act as signs for seasons, days, and years, to serve as lights in the sky, and to shine on the earth!" And that is what happened: God fashioned two great lights the larger light to shine during the day and the smaller light to shine during the night as well as stars. read more.
God placed them in space to shine on the earth, to differentiate between day and night, and to distinguish light from darkness. And God saw how good it was.

Judges 19:9

When the man got up to leave with his mistress and servant, his father-in-law, the young woman's father, told him, "Look now, evening is coming, so please spend another night. See how the daylight is fading, so spend the night here and enjoy yourself. Then tomorrow get up early and leave on your journey home."

John 11:9-10

Jesus replied, "There are twelve hours in the day, aren't there? If anyone walks during the day he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. But if anyone walks at night he stumbles, because the light is not in him."

Genesis 15:12

As the sun began to set, Abram was overcome with deep sleep, and suddenly a frightening and terrifying darkness descended on him.

Genesis 28:11

He reached a certain place and spent the night there, because the sun was setting. He found a stone there, used it for a pillow, and slept there for the night,

Job 4:13

Disquieting thoughts from dreams at night; when deep sleep falls on everyone.

Psalm 42:3

My tears have been my food day and night, while people keep asking me all day long, "Where is your God?"

Jeremiah 9:1

"Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears, for then I would cry day and night for those of my people who have been killed.

Jeremiah 14:17

"And deliver this message to them: "Let tears run down my face, night and day, and don't let them stop, because my virgin daughter my people will be broken with a powerful blow, with a severe wound.

Nehemiah 1:6

please turn your attention to observe carefully and listen to the prayer of your servant today that I am presenting to you day and night on behalf of your servants, the Israelis.

1 Thessalonians 3:10

We pray very hard night and day that we may see you again face to face, so that we may equip you with whatever is lacking in your faith.

Acts 26:7

Our twelve tribes, worshiping day and night with intense devotion, hope to attain it. It is because of this hope, O King, that I am accused by the Jews.

Revelation 7:15

Then he told me, "These are the people who are coming out of the terrible suffering. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb. That is why: "They are in front of the throne of God and worship him night and day in his Temple. The one who sits on the throne will shelter them.

1 Chronicles 9:33

These singers, leaders of ancestral households of the descendants of Levi, were living in the chambers of the Temple. Freed from other service responsibilities, they were on duty day and night.

2 Thessalonians 3:8

We did not eat anyone's food without paying for it. Instead, with toil and labor we worked night and day in order not to be a burden to any of you.

Lamentations 2:19

Get up and cry aloud in the night, at the beginning of every hour. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord! Lift up your hands toward him for the lives of your children, who are fainting away at every street corner.

Judges 7:19

So Gideon and the 100 men with him arrived at the outer perimeter of the encampment at the beginning of the middle watch, just after they had posted sentries. They blew their trumpets and smashed the jars that they were carrying in their hands.

Exodus 14:24

In the morning watch, the LORD looked down on the Egyptian camp through the pillar of fire and cloud, and he threw the Egyptian camp into confusion.

Mark 13:35

So keep on watching, because you don't know when the master of the house is coming whether in the evening, at three o'clock in the morning, or at dawn.

Matthew 14:25

Shortly before dawn, Jesus came to them, walking on the sea.

Mark 6:48

He saw that his disciples were straining at the oars, because the wind was against them. Shortly before dawn he came to them, walking on the sea. He intended to go up right beside them,

Luke 12:38

How blessed they will be if their master comes in the middle of the night or near dawn and finds them awake!

John 13:30

So Judas took the piece of bread, immediately went outside"and it was night.

Job 30:26

I have hoped for good, but evil came instead; I have hoped for light, but darkness came.

Proverbs 2:13

and from those who abandon the right path to travel along the ways of darkness;

John 3:19-20

And this is the basis for judgment: The light has come into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light because their actions were evil. Everyone who practices wickedness hates the light and does not come to the light, so that his actions may not be exposed.

Job 24:14

The murderer rises at dawn to kill the poor and needy; at night, he is like a thief.

Proverbs 7:8-9

Proceeding down the street near her corner, he makes his way toward her house at twilight, during the evening, even during the darkest part of the night.

1 Thessalonians 5:7

For people who go to sleep, go to sleep at night; and people who get drunk, get drunk at night.

Jeremiah 49:9

If the grape harvesters came to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves came at night, they would destroy only until they had enough.

John 12:35-36

Jesus replied to the crowd, "The light is among you only for a short time. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. The person who walks in the darkness is in the darkness and does not know where he is going. As long as you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of light." After Jesus had said this, he went away and hid from them.

Matthew 24:42-44

"So keep on watching, because you don't know on what day your Lord is coming. But be sure of this: if the owner of the house had known when during the night the thief would be coming, he would have stayed awake and not allowed his house to be broken into. So you, too, must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour you are not expecting."

Mark 13:36-37

Otherwise, he may come suddenly and find you asleep. I'm telling you what I'm telling everyone: Be alert!"

Psalm 107:13-14

Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble; he delivered them from their distress. And he brought them out from darkness and the shadow of death, shattering their chains.

Isaiah 59:9

"So justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We wait for light, but look there is darkness; we wait for brightness, but we walk in deep darkness.

Psalm 6:6

I am weary from my groaning. Every night my couch is drenched with tears, my bed is soaked through.

Lamentations 1:2

Bitterly she cries in the night, as tears stream down her cheeks. No one consoles her of all her friends. All her neighbors have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.

Psalm 22:2

My God, I cry out to you throughout the day, but you do not answer; and throughout the night, but I have no rest.

Psalm 77:6

During the night I remembered my song. I meditate in my heart, and my spirit ponders.

Psalm 139:1-2

LORD, you have examined me; you have known me. You know when I rest and when I am active. You understand what I am thinking when I am distant from you.

Psalm 149:5

May those he loves be exalted, singing for joy on their couches.

Isaiah 30:29

You will have songs as on nights when people celebrate a holy festival, and gladness of heart, as when they set out with flutes to go to the LORD's mountain, to the Rock of Israel.

Psalm 63:6

When I think of you in bed, I will meditate on you in the night watches.

Isaiah 26:9

My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me searches for you. For when your judgments come upon the earth, the world's inhabitants learn righteousness.

1 Samuel 3:4

The LORD called out to Samuel, who answered, "Here I am."

2 Chronicles 7:12

Later, the LORD appeared to Solomon during the night and told him:

Daniel 7:2

Daniel said, "I observed the vision during the night. Look! The four winds of the skies were stirring up the Mediterranean Sea.

Zechariah 1:8

"I stared into the night, and there was a man mounted on a red horse! The horse was standing among the myrtle trees in a ravine. Behind him there were red, brown, and white horses."

Acts 23:11

That night the Lord stood near Paul and said, "Have courage! For just as you have testified about me in Jerusalem, you must testify in Rome, too."

Genesis 20:3

But God came to Abimelech in a dream during the night and spoke to him, "Pay attention! You're about to die, because the woman you have taken is a man's wife!"

Genesis 31:24

That night, God appeared to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, "Be careful what you say to Jacob, whether it's one word good or bad."

1 Kings 3:5

The LORD appeared to Solomon one night in a dream and told him, "Ask me for whatever you want and I'll give it to you."

Job 33:15

in a dream or night vision, when a deep sleep falls on mankind while they sleep on their beds.

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Exodus 12:42

That was for the LORD a night of vigil to bring them out of the land of Egypt. This same night belongs to the LORD, and is to be a vigil for all the Israelis from generation to generation.

Night » Divided into watches

1 Samuel 11:11

The next day Saul separated the people into three companies. They came into the camp during the morning watch, and struck down the Ammonites until the heat of the day. Those who survived were scattered so that no two of them remained together.

Exodus 14:24

In the morning watch, the LORD looked down on the Egyptian camp through the pillar of fire and cloud, and he threw the Egyptian camp into confusion.

Nehemiah 12:9

Bakbukiah and Unni and their associates stood opposite them in the service.

Lamentations 2:19

Get up and cry aloud in the night, at the beginning of every hour. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord! Lift up your hands toward him for the lives of your children, who are fainting away at every street corner.

Matthew 14:25

Shortly before dawn, Jesus came to them, walking on the sea.

Night » Type of ignorance and sin

Revelation 21:25

Its gates will never be shut at the end of the day because there will be no night there.

Night » God frequently » Revealed his will in

Genesis 31:24

That night, God appeared to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, "Be careful what you say to Jacob, whether it's one word good or bad."

Numbers 22:30

But in response, the donkey asked Balaam, "I'm your donkey that you've ridden on in the past without incident, am I not, and I'm the same donkey you're riding on right now, am I not? Am I in the habit of treating you like this?" "No," he admitted.

Daniel 7:2

Daniel said, "I observed the vision during the night. Look! The four winds of the skies were stirring up the Mediterranean Sea.

Night » God frequently » Executed his judgments in

2 Kings 19:35

That very night, the angel of the LORD went out to the camp of the Assyrian army and killed 185,000 men. Early the next morning, when the army of Israel arose, all 185,000 soldiers were dead.

Daniel 5:30

That night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was killed,

Exodus 12:12

I'll pass through the land of Egypt that night and strike every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both people and animals. I'll execute judgments on all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.

Job 27:20

Terror will overtake him like a flood, at night, a tornado will sweep him away.

Night » Used figuratively

Isaiah 15:1

A message concerning Moab: "For Ir in Moab is destroyed in a night, and Moab is ruined! Because Ir in Moab is destroyed in a single night, Moab is ruined!

Isaiah 21:11-12

A message concerning Dumah. "Someone is calling 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 also the night. If you want to ask, then ask; come back again.'"

Night » Originally divided into three watches

Exodus 14:24

In the morning watch, the LORD looked down on the Egyptian camp through the pillar of fire and cloud, and he threw the Egyptian camp into confusion.

Lamentations 2:19

Get up and cry aloud in the night, at the beginning of every hour. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord! Lift up your hands toward him for the lives of your children, who are fainting away at every street corner.

Judges 7:19

So Gideon and the 100 men with him arrived at the outer perimeter of the encampment at the beginning of the middle watch, just after they had posted sentries. They blew their trumpets and smashed the jars that they were carrying in their hands.

Night » Frequently » Accompanied by heavy dews

Judges 6:38

And that is what happened: When he got up early the next morning, he wrung out the fleece to drain the dew from it and extracted a bowl full of water.

Numbers 11:9

When the dew fell in the camp, the manna came with it.

Judges 6:40

And God did it just like that later that night. It was dry only on the fleece, but dew was all around on the ground.

Night » Divided into four watches by the romans

Matthew 14:25

Shortly before dawn, Jesus came to them, walking on the sea.

Luke 12:38

How blessed they will be if their master comes in the middle of the night or near dawn and finds them awake!

Mark 13:35

So keep on watching, because you don't know when the master of the house is coming whether in the evening, at three o'clock in the morning, or at dawn.

Night » Continued until sunrise

Psalm 104:22

When the sun rises, they gather and lie down in their dens.

Mark 16:2

Very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had just come up, they were going to the tomb.

Night » General references to the natural

Psalm 19:2

Day after day they pour forth speech, night after night they reveal knowledge.

Psalm 134:1

Now bless the LORD, all you servants of the LORD who serve nightly in the LORD's Temple.

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

Psalm 6:6

I am weary from my groaning. Every night my couch is drenched with tears, my bed is soaked through.

Joel 1:13

"Put on your mourning clothes, you priests; and cry aloud, you ministering servants at the altar! Come! Stay the night in mourner's clothes, you ministers of my God, because the grain offering and the wine offering is held back from the Temple of your God.

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

Jeremiah 31:35

This is what the LORD says, who gives the sun for light by day, the laws that govern the moon and stars for light by night, and who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar. The LORD of the Heavenly Armies is his name:

Genesis 1:16-18

God fashioned two great lights the larger light to shine during the day and the smaller light to shine during the night as well as stars. God placed them in space to shine on the earth, to differentiate between day and night, and to distinguish light from darkness. And God saw how good it was.

Night » Wild beasts go forth in search of prey during

2 Samuel 21:10

Then Aiah's daughter Rizpah grabbed some sackcloth and spread it out for herself on the rock where her children had been hanged from the beginning of harvest until the first rain fell from the sky. She would not allow any scavenger birds to land on them during the day nor the beasts of the field to approach them at night.

Psalm 104:21-22

Young lions roar for prey, seeking their food from God. When the sun rises, they gather and lie down in their dens.

Night » Meditations in

Psalm 19:2

Day after day they pour forth speech, night after night they reveal knowledge.

Psalm 77:6

During the night I remembered my song. I meditate in my heart, and my spirit ponders.

Psalm 119:148

I look forward to the night watches, when I may meditate on what you have said.

Psalm 139:11

If I say, "Darkness will surely conceal me, and the light around me will become night,"

Night » Frequently » Cold and frosty

Jeremiah 36:30

Therefore, this is what the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim, king of Judah, "He will have no one to sit on the throne of David, and his corpse will be thrown out to rot during the heat of the day and the frost of the night.

Night » Regular succession of » Established by covenant

Jeremiah 33:20

"This is what the LORD says: "If you could break my covenant with the day and night so that day and night wouldn't occur at the proper time,

Night » Favorable to the purposes of the wicked

Genesis 31:39

and whatever was torn by beasts, I never bothered to bring to you. Instead, I bore the losses myself. Even so, you demanded that I provide restitution for anything that was stolen, whether during the day or the night.

Job 24:14-15

The murderer rises at dawn to kill the poor and needy; at night, he is like a thief. The adulterer watches for twilight, saying, "No eye is watching me' while he veils his face.

Night » God frequently » Visited his people in

Psalm 17:3

When you probe my heart, and examine me at night; when you refine me, you will find nothing wrong, for I have determined that I will not transgress with my mouth.

1 Kings 3:5

The LORD appeared to Solomon one night in a dream and told him, "Ask me for whatever you want and I'll give it to you."

Night » Eastern shepherds watched over their flocks during

Night » Illustrative of » Seasons of severe calamities

Amos 5:8

Seek the one who fashions the Pleiades and Orion, who turns the deep darkness into morning, who darkens day into night, who calls out to the waters of the sea, pouring them out onto the surface of the earth the LORD is his name.

Isaiah 21:12

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

Night » Illustrative of » Seasons of spiritual desertion

Song of Songs 3:1

Night after night on my bed, I sought the one I love; I sought him, but didn't find him.

Night » Eastern fishermen continued their employment during

Luke 5:5

Simon answered, "Master, we have worked hard all night and caught nothing. But if you say so, I'll lower the nets."

John 21:3

Simon Peter told them, "I'm going fishing." They all told him, "We'll go with you, too." So they went out and got into the boat but didn't catch a thing that night.

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

Deuteronomy 21:23

his body must not remain overnight on the tree. You must bury him that same day, because cursed of God is the one who has been hanged on a tree. Don't defile your land that the LORD is about to give you as your inheritance."

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

Night » The jews » Often kept lamps burning during

Proverbs 31:18

She is confident that her profits are sufficient. Her lamp does not go out at night.

Night » No night in heaven

Revelation 21:25

Its gates will never be shut at the end of the day because there will be no night there.

Night » Commenced at sunset

Genesis 28:11

He reached a certain place and spent the night there, because the sun was setting. He found a stone there, used it for a pillow, and slept there for the night,

Night » Illustrative of » Spiritual darkness

Night » Frequently » Exceeding dark

Proverbs 7:9

at twilight, during the evening, even during the darkest part of the night.

Night » The heavenly bodies designed to separate day from

Night » Designed for rest

Night » Caused by God

Psalm 104:20

You bring darkness and it becomes night; when every beast of the forest prowls.

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 they pour forth speech, night after night they reveal knowledge.

Night » The jews » In affliction spent, in prayer

Psalm 22:2

My God, I cry out to you throughout the day, but you do not answer; and throughout the night, but I have no rest.

Night » Unsuitable for travelling

John 11:10

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

Night » Wearisome to the afflicted

Job 7:3-4

Truly I've been allotted months of emptiness; nights of trouble have been appointed for me. "When I lie down I ask, "When will I wake up?' But the night continues and I keep tossing and turning until dawn.

Night » Illustrative of » death

Night » Divided into hours

Acts 23:23

Then he summoned two centurions and ordered, "Get 200 soldiers ready to leave for Caesarea at nine o'clock tonight, along with 70 mounted soldiers and 200 soldiers with spears.

Night » Worship in

Psalm 134:1

Now bless the LORD, all you servants of the LORD who serve nightly in the LORD's Temple.

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 maintain the lamp stand from evening until morning in the LORD's presence. It is to be a perpetual ordinance from generation to generation among the Israelis."

Protection Day And Night

1 Samuel 25:16

They were a wall around us both day and night, all the time we were with them taking care of the sheep.

Three Days And Nights

Jonah 1:17

Now the LORD had prepared a large sea creature to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was inside the sea creature for three days and three nights.

Visions At Night

Genesis 40:5

Then the two of them each had a dream. They both had their dreams the same night, and there were separate interpretations for each dream the senior security advisor and the head chef to the king of Egypt, who had confined them in prison.

Walking All Night

1 Samuel 31:12

every valiant soldier got up, traveled all night, and removed Saul's body and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. Then they went to Jabesh and cremated the bodies there.

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