'Night' in the Bible

Then Saul went down flat on the earth, and was full of fear because of Samuel's words: and there was no strength in him, for he had taken no food all that day or all that night.

And she put it before Saul and his servants, and they had a meal. Then they got up and went away the same night.

All the fighting men got up and, travelling all night, took Saul's body and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan; and they came to Jabesh and had them burned there.

And all that night Abner and his men went through the Arabah; they went over Jordan and through all Bithron and came to Mahanaim.

And they took Asahel's body and put it in the last resting-place of his father in Beth-lehem. And Joab and his men, travelling all night, came to Hebron at dawn.

And when they came into the house, Ish-bosheth was stretched on his bed in his bedroom; and they made an attack on him and put him to death, and, cutting off his head, they took it with them and went by the road through the Arabah all night.

Now that night the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying,

So David made prayer to God for the child; and he took no food day after day, and went in and, stretching himself out on the earth, was there all night.

Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me take out twelve thousand men and this very night I will go after David:

And Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, took haircloth, placing it on the rock as a bed for herself, from the start of the grain-cutting till rain came down on them from heaven; and she did not let the birds of the air come near them by day, or the beasts of the field by night.

In Gibeon, Solomon had a vision of the Lord in a dream by night; and God said to him, Say what I am to give you.

In the night, this woman, sleeping on her child, was the cause of its death.

And she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while your servant was sleeping; and she took it in her arms and put her dead child in my arms.

That your eyes may be open to this house night and day, to this place of which you have said, My name will be there; hearing the prayer which your servant may make, turning to this place.

And may these my words, the words of my prayer to the Lord, be before the Lord our God day and night, so that he may see right done to his servant and to his people Israel, day by day as we have need.

And there he went into a hole in the rock for the night; then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, What are you doing here, Elijah?

So he sent there horses and carriages and a great army; and they came by night, circling the town.

Then the king got up in the night and said to his servants, This is my idea of what the Aramaeans have done to us. They have knowledge that we are without food; and so they have gone out of their tents, and are waiting secretly in the open country, saying, When they come out of the town, we will take them living and get into the town.

Then Joram went over to Zair, with all his war-carriages; ... made an attack by night on the Edomites, whose forces were all round him, ... the captains of the war-carriages; and the people went in flight to their tents.

And that night the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men; and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.

So an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight by night through the doorway between the two walls which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldaeans were stationed round the town:) and the king went by the way of the Arabah.

And these were those who had the ordering of the music and songs, heads of families of the Levites, who were living in the rooms, and were free from other work, for their work went on day and night.

But that same night, the word of God came to Nathan, saying,

In that night God came to Solomon in a vision, and said to him, Say what I am to give you.

That your eyes may be open to this house day and night, to this place of which you have said that you would put your name there; to give ear to the prayer which your servant may make, turning to this place.

Now the Lord came to Solomon in a vision by night, and said to him, I have given ear to your prayer, and have taken this place for myself as a house where offerings are to be made.

Then Jehoram went over with his captains and all his war-carriages ... made an attack by night on the Edomites, whose forces were all round him ... on the captains of the war-carriages.

And after that, they made ready for themselves and for the priests; for the priests, the sons of Aaron, were offering the burned offerings and the fat till night; so the Levites made ready what was needed for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.

Let your ear now take note and let your eyes be open, so that you may give ear to the prayer of your servant, which I make before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel, your servants, while I put before you the sins of the children of Israel, which we have done against you: truly, I and my father's people are sinners.

And in the night I got up, taking with me a small band of men; I said nothing to any man of what God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem: and I had no beast with me but the one on which I was seated.

And I went out by night, through the doorway of the valley, and past the dragon's water-spring as far as the place where waste material was put, viewing the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down, and the doorways which had been burned with fire.

Then in the night, I went up by the stream, viewing the wall; then turning back, I went in by the door in the valley, and so came back.

But we made our prayer to God, and had men on watch against them day and night because of them.

And at the same time I said to the people, Let everyone with his servant come inside Jerusalem for the night, so that at night they may keep watch for us, and go on working by day.

And I went to the house of Shemaiah, the son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us have a meeting in the house of God, inside the Temple, and let the doors be shut: for they will come to put you to death; truly, in the night they will come to put you to death.

And you went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light on the way they were to go.

Even then, in your great mercy, you did not give them up in the waste land: the pillar of cloud still went before them by day, guiding them on their way, and the pillar of fire by night, to give them light, and make clear the way they were to go.

Then I gave witness against them and said, Why are you waiting all night by the wall? if you do so again I will have you taken prisoners. From that time they did not come again on the Sabbath.

Go, get together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and go without food for me, taking no food or drink night or day for three days: and I and my women will do the same; and so I will go in to the king, which is against the law: and if death is to be my fate, then let it come.

That night the king was unable to get any sleep; and he sent for the books of the records; and while some one was reading them to the king,

Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world.

Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

As for that night, let it have no fruit; let no voice of joy be sounded in it;

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

In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.

When I go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light.

They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.

He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night.

For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.

They take their rest at night without clothing, and have no cover in the cold.

And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about;

For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away.

My root will be open to the waters, and the night mist will be on my branches,

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep comes on men, while they take their rest on their beds;

Suddenly they come to an end, even in the middle of the night: the blow comes on the men of wealth, and they are gone, and the strong are taken away without the hand of man.

For he has knowledge of their works, overturning them in the night, so that they are crushed.

But no one has said, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night;

Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?

But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose mind is on his law day and night.

The voice of my sorrow is a weariness to me; all the night I make my bed wet with weeping; it is watered by the drops flowing from my eyes.

I will give praise to the Lord who has been my guide; knowledge comes to me from my thoughts in the night.

Day after day it sends out its word, and night after night it gives knowledge.

O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest.

For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)

My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?

But the Lord will send his mercy in the daytime, and in the night his song will be with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it.

Let them go wandering up and down in search of food, and be there all night if they have not enough.

The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun.

In the day of my trouble, my heart was turned to the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night without resting; my soul would not be comforted.

The memory of my song comes back to me in the night; my thoughts are moving in my heart; my spirit is searching with care.

In the daytime he was guiding them in the cloud, and all through the night with a light of fire.

You will have no fear of the evil things of the night, or of the arrow in flight by day,

When you make it dark, it is night, when all the beasts of the woods come quietly out of their secret places.

He sent black night and made it dark; and they did not go against his word.

A cloud was stretched over them for a cover; and he sent fire to give light in the night.

Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;

He took them out of the dark and the black night, and all their chains were broken.

I have given thought to your name in the night, O Lord, and have kept your law.

In the middle of the night I will get up to give you praise, because of all your right decisions.

In the night watches I am awake, so that I may give thought to your saying.

Give praise to the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, who take your places in the house of the Lord by night.

The moon and the stars to have rule by night: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;

Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.

At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night.

If anyone puts a curse on his father or his mother, his light will be put out in the blackest night.

The night-spirit has two daughters, Give, give. There are three things which are never full, even four which never say, Enough:

She gets up while it is still night, and gives meat to her family, and their food to her servant-girls.

She sees that her marketing is of profit to her: her light does not go out by night.

All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is to no purpose.

When I gave my mind to the knowledge of wisdom and to seeing the business which is done on the earth (and there are those whose eyes see not sleep by day or by night),

As a bag of myrrh is my well-loved one to me, when he is at rest all night between my breasts.

By night on my bed I was looking for him who is the love of my soul: I was looking for him, but I did not see him.

All of them armed with swords, trained in war; every man has his sword at his side, because of fear in the night.

I am sleeping, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my very beautiful one; my head is wet with dew, and my hair with the drops of the night.

And over every living-place on Mount Zion, all over all her meetings, the Lord will make a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all, the glory of the Lord will be a cover and a tent;

Cursed are those who get up early in the morning to give themselves up to strong drink; who keep on drinking far into the night till they are heated with wine!