98 Bible Verses about Night

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Genesis 1:14-18

God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from 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 sky to give light on the earth;" and it was so. God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars.read more.
God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.

Judges 19:9

When the man rose up with his concubine and his servant to leave, his father-in-law, the young lady's father, said to him, "Behold, now the day draws toward evening, please stay the night. Behold, the day grows to an end, stay here, and enjoy yourself; and tomorrow you can get up early for your journey so that you may go home."

John 11:9-10

Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours of daylight ? If a man walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."

Genesis 15:12

When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.

Genesis 28:11

He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.

Job 4:13

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

Jeremiah 9:1

Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people.

Jeremiah 14:17

"You shall say this word to 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 wound.

Nehemiah 1:6

Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father's house have sinned.

Luke 18:7

Won't God avenge his chosen ones, who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

Joshua 1:8

This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

Acts 26:7

which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, O King.

Revelation 7:15

Therefore they are before the throne of God, they serve him day and night in his temple. He who sits on the throne will spread his tabernacle over them.

1 Chronicles 9:33

These are the singers, heads of ancestral houses of the Levites, who lived in the chambers and were free from other service; for they were employed in their work day and night.

2 Thessalonians 3:8

neither did we eat bread from anyone's hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden 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 the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.

Judges 7:19

So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.

Exodus 14:24

It happened in the morning watch, that the LORD looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.

Mark 13:35

Watch therefore, for you do not know when the lord of the house is coming ?at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning;

Matthew 14:25

And in the fourth watch of the night, he came to them, walking on the sea.

Mark 6:48

He saw them distressed in rowing, for the wind was against them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea, and he would have passed by them,

Luke 12:38

They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so.

John 13:30

Therefore, having received the piece of bread, he went out immediately; and it was night.

Job 30:26

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

Luke 22:53

When I was with you in the temple daily, you did not stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness."

Proverbs 2:13

who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

John 3:19-20

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

Job 24:14

The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

Proverbs 7:8-9

passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house, in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.

1 Thessalonians 5:7

For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

Jeremiah 49:9

If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? If thieves by night, wouldn't they destroy until they had enough?

John 12:35-36

Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness does not overtake you. He who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going. While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light." Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.

Matthew 24:42-44

Watch therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord comes. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.

Mark 13:36-37

lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping. What I tell you, I tell all: Watch."

Psalm 107:13-14

Then they cried to 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 in sunder.

Isaiah 59:9

Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

Psalm 6:6

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

Lamentations 1:2

She weeps bitterly 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 have become her enemies.

Psalm 22:2

My God, I cry in the daytime, but you do not answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

Psalm 77:6

I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

Psalm 139:1-2

LORD, you have searched me, and you know me. You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

Psalm 149:5

Let the holy ones rejoice in honor. Let them sing for joy on their beds.

Isaiah 30:29

You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to the LORD's mountain, to Israel's Rock.

Psalm 63:6

when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.

Isaiah 26:9

With my soul have I desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

1 Samuel 3:4

that the LORD called Samuel; and he said, "Here I am."

2 Chronicles 7:12

The LORD 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, "I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the sky broke forth on the great sea.

Zechariah 1:8

"I had a vision in the night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in a ravine; and behind him there were red, brown, and white horses.

Acts 23:11

The following night, the Lord stood by him, and said, "Cheer up, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome."

Genesis 20:3

But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man's wife."

Genesis 31:24

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

1 Kings 3:5

In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, "Ask what I shall give you."

Job 33:15

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed;

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Exodus 12:42

It is a night to be much observed to the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of the LORD, to be much observed of all the children of Israel throughout their generations.

Night » Divided into watches

1 Samuel 11:11

It was so on the next day, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch, and struck the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it happened, that those who remained were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.

Exodus 14:24

It happened in the morning watch, that the LORD looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.

Nehemiah 12:9

Also Bakbukiah and Unno, their brothers, were over against them according to their offices.

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 the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.

Matthew 14:25

And in the fourth watch of the night, he came to them, walking on the sea.

Night » Type of ignorance and sin

Revelation 21:25

Its gates will in no way be shut by day (for there will be no night there),

Night » God frequently » Revealed his will in

Genesis 31:24

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

Numbers 22:30

The donkey said to Balaam, "Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long to this day? Was I ever in the habit of doing so to you?" He said, "No."

Daniel 7:2

Daniel spoke and said, "I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the sky broke forth on the great sea.

Night » God frequently » Executed his judgments in

2 Kings 19:35

It happened that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

Exodus 12:12

For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the LORD.

Job 27:20

Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.

Night » Used figuratively

Isaiah 15:1

The burden of Moab: for in a night, Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing; for in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing.

Isaiah 21:11-12

The burden of Dumah. One 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. Come back again."

Night » Originally divided into three watches

Exodus 14:24

It happened in the morning watch, that the LORD looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.

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 the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.

Judges 7:19

So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.

Night » Frequently » Accompanied by heavy dews

Judges 6:38

It was so; for he rose up early on the next day, and pressed the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.

Numbers 11:9

When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.

Judges 6:40

God did so that night, for it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew all over the ground.

Night » Divided into four watches by the romans

Matthew 14:25

And in the fourth watch of the night, he came to them, walking on the sea.

Luke 12:38

They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so.

Mark 13:35

Watch therefore, for you do not know when the lord of the house is coming ?at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning;

Night » Continued until sunrise

Psalm 104:22

The sun rises, and they steal away, and lie down in their dens.

Mark 16:2

Very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.

Night » General references to the natural

Psalm 19:2

Day after day they pour forth speech, and night after night they display knowledge.

Psalm 134:1

Look. Praise the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, who stand by night in the LORD's house.

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

Psalm 6:6

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

Joel 1:13

Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests. Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God's house.

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

Jeremiah 31:35

Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; the LORD of hosts is his name:

Genesis 1:16-18

God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide 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 for her on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water was poured on them from the sky. She allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals 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, and they steal away, and lie down in their dens.

Night » Meditations in

Psalm 19:2

Day after day they pour forth speech, and night after night they display knowledge.

Psalm 77:6

I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

Psalm 119:148

My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.

Psalm 139:11

If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;"

Night » Frequently » Cold and frosty

Jeremiah 36:30

Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: "He shall have none 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

"Thus says the LORD: 'If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;

Night » Favorable to the purposes of the wicked

Genesis 31:39

That which was torn of animals, I did not bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

Job 24:14-15

The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief. The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, 'No eye shall see me.' He disguises 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 found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

1 Kings 3:5

In Gibeon the LORD 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 made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the LORD is his name,

Isaiah 21:12

The watchman said, "The morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire. Come back again."

Night » Illustrative of » Seasons of spiritual desertion

Song of Songs 3:1

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

Luke 5:5

Simon answered him, "Master, we worked all night, and took nothing; but at your word I will let down the nets."

John 21:3

Simon Peter said to them, "I'm going fishing." They told him, "We are also coming with you." They went out, and entered into the boat. 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 the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God; that you do not defile your land which the LORD 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 perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp doesn't go out by night.

Night » No night in heaven

Revelation 21:25

Its gates will in no way be shut by day (for there will be no night there),

Night » Commenced at sunset

Genesis 28:11

He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and 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 of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.

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 animals of the forest prowl.

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, and night after night they display knowledge.

Night » The jews » In affliction spent, in prayer

Psalm 22:2

My God, I cry in the daytime, but you do not answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

Night » Unsuitable for travelling

John 11:10

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

Night » Wearisome to the afflicted

Job 7:3-4

so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me. When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.

Night » Illustrative of » death

Night » Divided into hours

Acts 23:23

He called to himself two of the centurions, and said, "Prepare two hundred soldiers to go as far as Caesarea, with seventy horsemen, and two hundred men armed with spears, at the third hour of the night."

Night » Worship in

Psalm 134:1

Look. Praise the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, who stand by night in the LORD's house.

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 veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute forever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.

Protection Day And Night

1 Samuel 25:16

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

Visions At Night

Genesis 40:5

They both dreamed a dream, 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

all the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan; and they came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.

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