'Daylight' in the Bible
Then Jacob said, “Look, it is still broad daylight. It’s not time for the animals to be gathered. Water the flock, then go out and let them graze.”
The Lord said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the Lord so that His burning anger may turn away from Israel.”
You acted in secret, but I will do this before all Israel and in broad daylight.’”
May its morning stars grow dark.May it wait for daylight but have none;may it not see the breaking of dawn.
Or why was I not hidden like a miscarried child,like infants who never see daylight?
I will set fire to Egypt;Pelusium will writhe in anguish,Thebes will be breached,and Memphis will face foes in broad daylight.
Therefore, it will be night for you—without visions;it will grow dark for you—without divination.The sun will set on these prophets,and the daylight will turn black over them.
When daylight came, He summoned His disciples, and He chose 12 of them—He also named them apostles:
When daylight came, the elders of the people, both the chief priests and the scribes, convened and brought Him before their Sanhedrin.
At daylight, there was a great commotion among the soldiers as to what could have become of Peter.
When daylight came, the chief magistrates sent the police to say, “Release those men!”
Then, fearing we might run aground in some rocky place, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daylight to come.
When it was about daylight, Paul urged them all to take food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have been waiting and going without food, having eaten nothing.
When daylight came, they did not recognize the land but sighted a bay with a beach. They planned to run the ship ashore if they could.
The night is nearly over, and the daylight is near, so let us discard the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
Let us walk with decency, as in the daylight: not in carousing and drunkenness; not in sexual impurity and promiscuity; not in quarreling and jealousy.