98 Bible Verses about Night
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And God called the light Day and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for appointed times and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the firmament 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 lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars also.read more.
And God set them in the firmament of the heavens 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.
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 draws toward evening, I pray you tarry all night; behold, the day comes to an end; lodge here that thy heart may be merry, and tomorrow ye shall get up early and be on your way that thou may come unto thy tent.
It is expedient that I do the works of him that sent me while it is day; the night comes, when no one can work.
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 this world. But he who walks in the night stumbles because there is no light in him.
And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, behold, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.
And he found a certain place and slept there all night because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place and put them for his pillows and lay down in that place to sleep.
My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
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!
Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them: Let my 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 blow.
let thine ear now be attentive and thine eyes open, that thou may hear the prayer of thy slave, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the sons of Israel, thy slaves, and I confess the sins of the sons of Israel, with which we have sinned against thee; both I and my father's house have sinned.
And shall not God avenge his own elect who cry day and night unto him though he bears long regarding them?
night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face and might complete that which is lacking in your faith?
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night that thou may keep and do according to all that is written therein; for then thou shalt make thy way to prosper, and then thou shalt understand everything.
But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in his law he meditates day and night.
and she was a widow eighty-four years, who departed not from the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers.
unto which promise our twelve tribes, constantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, King Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.
And the four animals had each of them six wings about him, and they were full of eyes within, and they did not cease day or night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come.
Therefore, they are before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple, and he that is seated on the throne shall dwell among them.
And of these there were singers, princes of the fathers of the Levites, who remained in the chambers free from other work; for they were employed in that work day and night.
For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for labouring night and day, not to be a burden unto any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God.
neither did we eat any man's bread for nought, but working with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you,
Koph Arise, cry out in the night; in the beginning of the watches; pour out thine 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 in the top of every street.
So Gideon and the hundred men that were with him came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch when only the guards were awake, and they blew the shofarot and broke the pitchers that were in their hands.
And it came to pass that in the morning watch the LORD looked at the camp of the Egyptians in the pillar of fire and of cloud and troubled the camp of the Egyptians
Watch ye therefore, for ye know not when the Lord of the house comes: at evening or at midnight or at the cockcrowing or in the morning,
And in the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went unto them, walking upon the sea.
And he saw them toiling in rowing, for the wind was contrary unto them; and about the fourth watch of the night he came unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them.
And if he shall come in the second watch or come in the third watch and find them so, blessed are those slaves.
He then having received the sop went immediately out, and it was now night.
When I expected good, then evil came unto me; and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me; but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.
Therefore, judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall each one have praise of God.
who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,
And this is the condemnation, that the light is come into the world, and men loved darkness more than the light because their deeds were evil. For every one that does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
The murderer rises with the light, kills the poor and the needy, and in the night is as a thief.
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;
For those that sleep in the night, and those that are drunken are drunken in the night.
If grapegatherers came against thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? If thieves by night, they will take what they have need of.
Ye are all the sons of light, and the sons of the day; we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the Light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you; for he that walks in darkness does not know where he goes. While ye have the Light, believe in the Light that ye may be the sons of light. Jesus spoke these things and departed and hid himself from them.
The night is past, and the day is come; let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us clothe ourselves with the weapons of light.
For in another time ye were darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord: walk as children of light;
who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son,
Watch therefore, for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. But know this that if the husband of the house knew in what watch the thief would come, he would watch and would not suffer his house to be broken into. Therefore be ye also ready; the Son of man is to come in the hour that ye think not.
Watch, therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man comes.
lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you, I say unto all: Watch.
Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses. He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke their bonds asunder.
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; those that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them has the light shined.
Therefore judgment has withdrawn from us, and righteousness has never overtaken us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
I am weary with my groaning; all the night I flood my bed; I water my couch with my tears.
For his anger endures but a moment; in his will is life; weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.
Beth She weeps sore 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 treacherously with her; they are become her enemies.
And it came to pass in those days that he went out into the mountain to pray and continued all night in prayer to God.
It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king, for he has turned back from following me and has not performed my commandments. And it incensed Samuel, and he cried unto the LORD all night.
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of the judgments of thy righteousness.
But at midnight as Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto God, and the prisoners heard them,
Yet the LORD will command his mercy in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
I call to remembrance my songs of the night; I commune with my own heart, and my spirit made diligent search.
O LORD, thou hast searched me and known me. Thou knowest my sitting down and my rising up, thou dost understand my thoughts from afar.
The merciful shall be joyful with glory; they shall sing aloud upon their beds.
Ye shall have a song, as in the night in which the Passover is kept and gladness of heart as when one goes with a flute to come into the mountain of the LORD to the mighty One of Israel.
When I remember thee upon my bed and meditate on thee in the night watches.
With my soul I desire thee in the night; yea, even as long as the spirit is within me I will seek thee early: for as long as thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and have chosen this place for myself for a house of sacrifice.
Then the mystery was revealed unto Daniel in a night vision for which Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven fought the great sea.
I saw by 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 red horses, speckled, and white.
Then the Lord spoke to Paul in the night by a vision, Do not be afraid, but speak and do not be silent,
And the night following the Lord stood by him and said, Be of good cheer, Paul, for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou also bear witness at Rome.
But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, Behold, thou art a dead man, for the woman whom thou hast taken, for she is a man's wife.
And God came to Laban the Aramean in dreams by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and God said, Ask what you wish that I shall give thee.
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
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It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king, for he has turned back from following me and has not performed my commandments. And it incensed Samuel, and he cried unto the LORD all night.
At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of the judgments of thy righteousness.
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But at midnight as Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto God, and the prisoners heard them,
And it came to pass in those days that he went out into the mountain to pray and continued all night in prayer to God.
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Family Joy » Future » Maternal and paternal love » Night
And there shall be no night there; and they need no lamp neither light of the sun; for the Lord God shall give them light; and they shall reign for ever and ever.
Israel » Journey » Night
It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this night should be observed unto the LORD by all the sons of Israel in their ages.
Night » Divided into watches
And it was so on the next day that Saul put the people in order in three companies, and they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day, and it came to pass that those who remained were scattered so that two of them were not left together.
And it came to pass that in the morning watch the LORD looked at the camp of the Egyptians in the pillar of fire and of cloud and troubled the camp of the Egyptians
Koph Arise, cry out in the night; in the beginning of the watches; pour out thine 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 in the top of every street.
And in the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went unto them, walking upon the sea.
Night » Type of ignorance and sin
The night is past, and the day is come; let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us clothe ourselves with the weapons of light.
Ye are all the sons of light, and the sons of the day; we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
And there shall be no night there; and they need no lamp neither light of the sun; for the Lord God shall give them light; and they shall reign for ever and ever.
And her gates shall never be shut by day; for there shall be no night there.
Night » God frequently » Revealed his will in
And God came to Laban the Aramean in dreams by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
And God spoke unto Israel in visions of the night and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
And the ass said unto Balaam, Am I not thine ass upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? Was I ever accustomed to do so unto thee? And he said, No.
Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven fought the great sea.
Night » God frequently » Executed his judgments in
And it came to pass that night that the angel of the LORD went out and smote in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand men; and when they arose early in the morning, behold, the corpses of the dead.
That same night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was slain.
For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both among man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the LORD.
Terrors shall take hold on him as waters; a whirlwind shall carry him away in the night.
Night » Used figuratively
It is expedient that I do the works of him that sent me while it is day; the night comes, when no one can work.
The burden of Moab. Certainly in the night Ar of Moab was laid waste and brought to silence; certainly in the night Kir of Moab was laid waste and brought to silence.
The night is past, and the day is come; let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us clothe ourselves with the weapons of light.
Ye are all the sons of light, and the sons of the day; we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
The burden of Dumah. He calls to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of this night? Watchman, what of this night? The watchman said, The morning comes and then the night; if ye will enquire, enquire ye; return, and come.
Night » Originally divided into three watches
And it came to pass that in the morning watch the LORD looked at the camp of the Egyptians in the pillar of fire and of cloud and troubled the camp of the Egyptians
Koph Arise, cry out in the night; in the beginning of the watches; pour out thine 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 in the top of every street.
So Gideon and the hundred men that were with him came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch when only the guards were awake, and they blew the shofarot and broke the pitchers that were in their hands.
Night » Frequently » Accompanied by heavy dews
And it was so, for he rose up early in the morning, and wringing the fleece, he took the dew out of it, a bowl full of water.
And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.
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
And in the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went unto them, walking upon the sea.
And if he shall come in the second watch or come in the third watch and find them so, blessed are those slaves.
Watch ye therefore, for ye know not when the Lord of the house comes: at evening or at midnight or at the cockcrowing or in the morning,
Night » Continued until sunrise
Now well along on the sabbath, as it began to dawn on the first of the sabbaths, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
And very early in the morning the first of the sabbaths, they come unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.
Night » General references to the natural
And God called the light Day and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
One day provides a word for the next day, and one night declares wisdom unto the next night.
Behold, bless ye the LORD, all ye slaves of the LORD, who by night stand in the house of the LORD.
Night » The jews » In affliction spent, in sorrow and humiliation
For his anger endures but a moment; in his will is life; weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.
I am weary with my groaning; all the night I flood my bed; I water my couch with my tears.
Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the present and the drink offering is taken away from the house of your God.
Night » The moon and stars designed to rule and give light by
Thus hath the LORD said, who gives the sun for light by day, and the laws of the moon and of the stars for light by night, who divides the sea and the waves thereof roar; The LORD of the hosts is his name;
And God made 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 the heavens 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
And Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, took sackcloth and spread it upon the rock from the beginning of harvest until water rained upon them out of heaven and allowed neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day nor the beasts of the field by night.
The young lions roar after their prey and seek their food from God. The sun arises, they withdraw and lay themselves down in their dens.
Night » Meditations in
One day provides a word for the next day, and one night declares wisdom unto the next night.
I call to remembrance my songs of the night; I commune with my own heart, and my spirit made diligent search.
My eyes anticipate the night watches that I might meditate in thy spoken word.
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall shine because of me.
Night » Frequently » Cold and frosty
By day the drought consumed me, and by night, the frost; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
Therefore thus hath the LORD said unto Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have no one to sit upon the throne of David; and his 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
While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Thus hath the LORD said; If ye can break my covenant with the day, and my covenant with the night, such that there should not be day nor night in their season,
Night » Favorable to the purposes of the wicked
That which was torn of beasts I did not bring unto thee; I bore the sin; thou didst require of my hand that which was stolen, whether by day or by night.
The murderer rises with the light, kills the poor and the needy, and in the night is as a thief. The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me; and disguises his face.
Night » God frequently » Visited his people in
Thou hast proved my heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast refined me and hast found no iniquity; that which I thought did not pass through my mouth.
In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and God said, Ask what you wish that I shall give thee.
Night » Eastern shepherds watched over their flocks during
By day the drought consumed me, and by night, the frost; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
Night » Illustrative of » Seasons of severe calamities
look unto him that makes the seven stars and Orion and turns the shadow of death into the morning and makes the day dark with night, that calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name;
The watchman said, The morning comes and then the night; if ye will enquire, enquire ye; return, and come.
Night » Illustrative of » Seasons of spiritual desertion
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves; I sought him, but I did not find him.
Night » Eastern fishermen continued their employment during
And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night and have taken nothing; nevertheless, at thy word I will let down the net.
Simon Peter said unto them, I am going fishing. They said unto him, Let us also go with thee. They went forth and entered into a ship immediately, and that night they caught nothing.
Night » The jews » Forbidden to allow malefactors to hang during
his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt without fail bury him that same day (for he that is hanged is accursed of God) that thy land not be defiled, which the LORD thy God gives thee for an inheritance.
Night » The jews » Forbidden to keep the wages of servants during
Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him. Do not detain the wages of the work of the hired man in thy house until the morning.
Night » The jews » Often kept lamps burning during
Teth She perceived that her merchandise was good; her fire did not go out by night.
Night » No night in heaven
And there shall be no night there; and they need no lamp neither light of the sun; for the Lord God shall give them light; and they shall reign for ever and ever.
And her gates shall never be shut by day; for there shall be no night there.
Night » Commenced at sunset
And he found a certain place and slept there all night because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place and put them for his pillows and lay down in that place to sleep.
Night » Illustrative of » Spiritual darkness
The night is past, and the day is come; let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us clothe ourselves with the weapons of light.
Night » Frequently » Exceeding dark
Night » The heavenly bodies designed to separate day from
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for appointed times and for days and years;
Night » Designed for rest
Night » Caused by God
Thou makest darkness, and it is night, wherein all the beasts of the forest move.
Night » The darkness first called
And God called the light Day and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Night » Belongs to God
Night » Regular succession of » Ordained for the glory of God
One day provides a word for the next day, and one night declares wisdom unto the next night.
Night » The jews » In affliction spent, in prayer
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
Night » Unsuitable for travelling
But he who walks in the night stumbles because there is no light in him.
Night » Wearisome to the afflicted
so I am made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise? I measure the night, and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
Night » Illustrative of » death
It is expedient that I do the works of him that sent me while it is day; the night comes, when no one can work.
Night » Divided into hours
And he called unto him 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
Behold, bless ye the LORD, all ye slaves of the LORD, who by night stand in the house of the LORD.
Night » Unsuitable for labor
It is expedient that I do the works of him that sent me while it is day; the night comes, when no one can work.
Night » Jesus prays all night
And it came to pass in those days that he went out into the mountain to pray and continued all night in prayer to God.
Prayer » Night » All Night Prayers » jacob
the seven No mores » No more » Night
And there shall be no night there; and they need no lamp neither light of the sun; for the Lord God shall give them light; and they shall reign for ever and ever.
the future » No more » Night
And there shall be no night there; and they need no lamp neither light of the sun; for the Lord God shall give them light; and they shall reign for ever and ever.
Topics on Night
Acting All Night
Exodus 27:21In the tabernacle of the testimony outside the veil, which shall be before the ark of the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order them from evening to morning before the LORD; it shall be a perpetual statute of the sons of Israel for their generations.
Affliction Day And Night
Psalm 32:4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my green growth is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
All Night Prayers
Luke 6:12And it came to pass in those days that he went out into the mountain to pray and continued all night in prayer to God.
Day Or Night
Psalm 1:2But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in his law he meditates day and night.
During One Night
Acts 18:9Then the Lord spoke to Paul in the night by a vision, Do not be afraid, but speak and do not be silent,
Labour Day And Night
1 Thessalonians 2:9For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for labouring night and day, not to be a burden unto any of you, we preached among you the gospel of God.
Protection Day And Night
1 Samuel 25:16They were a wall unto us both by night and day all the time that we were feeding the sheep with them.
Provision Of Day And Night
Genesis 1:14And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for appointed times and for days and years;
Provision Of Night
Genesis 1:5And God called the light Day and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Spiritual Night
1 Thessalonians 5:5Ye are all the sons of light, and the sons of the day; we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
Three Days And Nights
Jonah 1:17Now the LORD 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 40:5And both of them dreamed a dream, each man his dream in the same 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 31:12all the valiant men arose and went all night and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Bethshan and came to Jabesh and burnt them there.
Worship Day And Night
Joshua 1:8This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night that thou may keep and do according to all that is written therein; for then thou shalt make thy way to prosper, and then thou shalt understand everything.