'Night' in the Bible

Thus saith Jehovah: If my covenant of day and night stand not, if I have not appointed the ordinances of the heavens and the earth,

Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit upon 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.

And it came to pass when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, that they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's garden, by the gate between the two walls; and he went out the way of the plain.

If grape-gatherers had come to thee, would they not have left a gleaning? If thieves by night, they would destroy only till they had enough.

And the city was broken into: and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were near the city round about); and they went the way toward the plain.

She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she hath no comforter; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

Their heart cried unto the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a torrent day and night: give thyself no respite; let not the apple of thine eye rest.

Arise, cry out in the night, in the beginning of the watches; pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, who faint from hunger at the top of all the streets.

Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of the heavens.

In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.

Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting; neither were concubines brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.

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

After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and exceeding strong; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the rest with its feet; and it was different from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.

I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of heaven one like a son of man, and he came up even to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

And thou shalt stumble by day; and the prophet also shall stumble with thee by night: and I will destroy thy mother.

For they have applied their heart like an oven to their lying in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth like a flaming fire.

Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests; howl, ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the oblation and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God.

seek him that made the Pleiades and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: Jehovah is his name.

If thieves had come to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had had enough? If grape-gatherers had come to thee, would they not have left some gleanings?

And Jehovah said, Thou hast pity on the gourd, for which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:

therefore ye shall have night without a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, without divination; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them.

I saw by night, and behold, a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle-trees that were in the low valley; and behind him were red, bay, and white horses.

And it shall be one day which is known to Jehovah, not day, and not night; and it shall come to pass, at eventide it shall be light.

And, having arisen, he took to him the little child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt.

But in the fourth watch of the night he went off to them, walking on the sea.

And leaving them he went forth out of the city to Bethany, and there he passed the night.

But in the middle of the night there was a cry, Behold, the bridegroom; go forth to meet him.

Then saith Jesus to them, All ye shall be offended in me during this night. For it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.

Jesus said to him, Verily I say to thee, that during this night, before the cock shall crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.

saying, Say that his disciples coming by night stole him while we were sleeping.

and should sleep and rise up night and day, and the seed should sprout and grow, he does not know how.

And continually night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying and cutting himself with stones.

And seeing them labouring in rowing, for the wind was contrary to them, about the fourth watch of the night he comes to them walking on the sea, and would have passed them by.

And Jesus says to him, Verily I say to thee, that thou to-day, in this night, before the cock shall crow twice, thou shalt thrice deny me.

And there were shepherds in that country abiding without, and keeping watch by night over their flock.

and herself a widow up to eighty-four years; who did not depart from the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers;

And Simon answering said to him, Master, having laboured through the whole night we have taken nothing, but at thy word I will let down the net.

And it came to pass in those days that he went out into the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God.

But God said to him, Fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall be what thou hast prepared?

I say to you, In that night there shall be two men upon one bed; one shall be seized and the other shall be let go.

And shall not God at all avenge his elect, who cry to him day and night, and he bears long as to them?

And by day he was teaching in the temple, and by night, going out, he remained abroad on the mountain called the mount of Olives;

he came to him by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that thou art come a teacher from God, for none can do these signs that thou doest unless God be with him.

I must work the works of him that has sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

but if any one walk in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.

Having therefore received the morsel, he went out immediately; and it was night.

And Nicodemus also, who at first came to Jesus by night, came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds weight.

Simon Peter says to them, I go to fish. They say to him, We also come with thee. They went forth, and went on board, and that night took nothing.

But an angel of the Lord during the night opened the doors of the prison, and leading them out, said,

But their plot became known to Saul. And they watched also the gates both day and night, that they might kill him;

but the disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.

And when Herod was going to bring him forth, that night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards before the door kept the prison.

And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: There was a certain Macedonian man, standing and beseeching him, and saying, Pass over into Macedonia and help us.

And he took them the same hour of the night and washed them from their stripes; and was baptised, he and all his straightway.

But the brethren immediately sent away, in the night, Paul and Silas to Berea; who, being arrived, went away into the synagogue of the Jews.

And the Lord said by vision in the night to Paul, Fear not, but speak and be not silent;

Wherefore watch, remembering that for three years, night and day, I ceased not admonishing each one of you with tears.

But the following night the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good courage; for as thou hast testified the things concerning me at Jerusalem, so thou must bear witness at Rome also.

And having called to him certain two of the centurions, he said, Prepare two hundred soldiers that they may go as far as Caesarea, and seventy horsemen, and two hundred light-armed footmen, for the third hour of the night.

The soldiers therefore, according to what was ordered them, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris,

to which our whole twelve tribes serving incessantly day and night hope to arrive; about which hope, O king, I am accused of the Jews.

For an angel of the God, whose I am and whom I serve, stood by me this night,

And when the fourteenth night was come, we being driven about in Adria, towards the middle of the night the sailors supposed that some land neared them,

The night is far spent, and the day is near; let us cast away therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

For I received from the Lord, that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, in the night in which he was delivered up, took bread,

Thrice have I been scourged, once I have been stoned, three times I have suffered shipwreck, a night and day I passed in the deep:

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, not to be chargeable to any one of you, we have preached to you the glad tidings of God.

night and day beseeching exceedingly to the end that we may see your face, and perfect what is lacking in your faith?

for ye know perfectly well yourselves, that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief by night.

for all ye are sons of light and sons of day; we are not of night nor of darkness.

for they that sleep sleep by night, and they that drink drink by night;

nor have we eaten bread from any one without cost; but in toil and hardship working night and day not to be chargeable to any one of you:

Now she who is a widow indeed, and is left alone, has put her hope in God, and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.

I am thankful to God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, how unceasingly I have the remembrance of thee in my supplications night and day,

And the four living creatures, each one of them having respectively six wings; round and within they are full of eyes; and they cease not day and night saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is to come.

Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple, and he that sits upon the throne shall spread his tabernacle over them.

And the fourth angel sounded his trumpet: and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so that the third part of them should be darkened, and that the day should not appear for the third part of it, and the night the same.

And I heard a great voice in the heaven saying, Now is come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ; for the accuser of our brethren has been cast out, who accused them before our God day and night:

And the smoke of their torment goes up to ages of ages, and they have no respite day and night who do homage to the beast and to its image, and if any one receive the mark of its name.

And the devil who deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where are both the beast and the false prophet; and they shall be tormented day and night for the ages of ages.

And its gates shall not be shut at all by day, for night shall not be there.

And night shall not be any more, and no need of a lamp, and light of the sun; for the Lord God shall shine upon them, and they shall reign to the ages of ages.