'Night' in the Bible

She brought it before Saul and his servants, and they ate. Then they got up and went away that [very] night.

all of {the valiant men} set out and went all night and took the corpse of Saul and the corpses of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan, and they came to Jabesh and burned them there.

Then Abner and his men went through the Arabah all that night, and they crossed over the Jordan. They went all the forenoon and came to Mahanaim.

Then they picked up Asahel and buried him in the grave of his father, which [was at] Bethlehem. Joab and his men went all that night {[arriving] in Hebron at first light}.

When they had come [into] the house, he [was] lying on his couch {in his bedchamber}, and they attacked him and killed him. Then they {beheaded him}, and they took his head and went on the way of the Arabah all night.

But it happened {that night}, the word of Yahweh came to Nathan, saying,

David pleaded [with] God on behalf of the boy and David fasted. He went to spend the night and lay upon the ground.

Hushai continued, "You know your father and his men, that they [are] mighty warriors and they {are enraged} as a bear robbed of [her] offspring in the field. Your father [is] a man of war, so he will not spend the night with the troops.

So then, send quickly and tell David, 'Don't spend the night at the fords of the wilderness! Moreover, by all means cross over lest the king and all the people who [are] with him be swallowed up.'"

So then, get up and go out and {speak kindly to your servants}, for I swear by Yahweh, if you do not go out, no man will lodge this night with you, and this disaster [will be] greater for you than any disaster that has come upon you from your childhood until now!"

Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took the sackcloth, and she spread it for herself on the rock at the beginning of the harvest until water gushed forth on them from heaven, but she did not allow the birds of heaven to rest on them by day nor the animals of the field by night.

Yahweh appeared to Solomon at Gibeon in a dream at night, and God said, "Ask what I should give to you."

Then the son of this woman died [in the] night because she laid on him.

So she got up in the middle of the night, and she took my son from beside me while your servant was asleep, and she put him in her lap, and she put her dead son in my lap.

so that your eyes [will] be open to this house night and day, to the place which you said, 'My name will be there,' to hear the prayer that your servant prays toward this place.

Let these my words which I pleaded before Yahweh [be] near to Yahweh our God, by day and by night, to maintain the justice of his servant and the justice of his people Israel {as each day requires}

He came to the cave there and spent the night there. Suddenly the [word] of Yahweh came to him and asked him, "{Elijah, what are you doing here}?"

So he sent horses, chariots, and an oppressing army there. They arrived at night and surrounded the town.

The king got up in the night and said to his servants, "Please let me tell you what [the] Arameans have done to us. [The] Arameans know that we [are] hungry, so they went out from the camp to hide in the field, saying, 'When they go out from the city, we shall seize them alive and go into the city.'"

So Joram crossed over to Zair and all the chariots with him. It happened that he arose [by] night and attacked Edom who had surrounded him and the commanders of the chariots; but the army fled to their tents.

It happened in that night that an angel of Yahweh went out, and he struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of Assyria. When they got up early in the morning, look! All of them [were] dead corpses.

Then the city was breached, and all of the men of war [entered] by night by way of the gate between the wall which was by the garden of the king, and the Chaldeans [were] against the city all around, so he left by the way of the Arabah.

Now these [were] the singers; the heads of the {families} of the Levites [were] in the chambers free from other service, for day and night [they were] over them on the service.

And it happened that same night the word of God came to Nathan, saying,

On that night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, "Ask what I shall give to you."

that your eyes may be open day and night to this house, to the place that you have promised to place your name there, that you may hear the prayer that your servant has prayed to this place.

Then Yahweh appeared to Solomon at night and said to him, "I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice.

Then Jehoram passed over with his commanders and all the chariots with him, and when night came he struck Edom who [was] all around him and the commanders of his chariots.

And afterward they prepared for themselves and for the priests, since the priests, the descendants of Aaron, [were busy] with offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night. So the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests, the descendants of Aaron.

Please, let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer of your servant that I am praying before you by day and by night for your servants, the {Israelites}, and confessing the sins of the {Israelites} that we have sinned against you. I and my father's house have sinned.

I got up during the night, I and a few men with me. I did not tell anybody what my God put in my heart to do for Jerusalem. No animal [was] with me except the animal that I was riding on.

I went out during the night at the gate of the valley by the Dragon spring and to the Dung Gate. And I examined the walls in Jerusalem and its gates that had been destroyed by the fire.

So I went up by the valley during the night and was examining the wall. Then I returned and came to the Valley Gate and returned.

So we prayed to our God and set up a guard against them day and night.

At the time I also said to the people, "Let each man and his servant spend the night inside Jerusalem, so that they will be a guard for us in the night and work in the day."

Now I went into the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, who was confined [at home], and he said, "Let us meet in the house of God, inside the temple, and let us close the doors of the temple; for they are coming to kill you--during the night they are coming to kill you."

You led them by day with a column of cloud and with a column of fire by night, to give them light on the way that they were to go.

But you in your many mercies did not abandon them in the desert. The column of cloud [that was] over them in the day did not cease to leave them on the way, and the column of fire by night [that] gave light to them on the way that they went.

So the merchants and the sellers of merchandise spent the night outside of Jerusalem once or twice.

But I warned them and said to them, "Why are you spending the night opposite the wall? If you do [it again], I will lay hands against you." From that time on they did not come on the Sabbath.

"Go, gather all the Jews that are found in Susa and fast for me; do not eat or drink [for] three days, both night and day. I and my young girls will fast likewise, and then I will go to the king, which [is] not according to the law; if I perish, I perish.

During that night the king's sleep escaped [him], and he gave orders to bring the {scroll of records and chronicles}, and they were read before the king.

"Let [the] day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, 'A man-child is conceived.'

Let darkness seize that night; let it not rejoice among [the] days of [the] year; let it not enter among [the] number of [the] months.

Look, let that night become barren; let a joyful song not enter it.

Amid troubling thoughts from night visions, at [the] falling of deep sleep on men,

In the daytime they meet [with] darkness, and they grope at noon as [in] the night.

When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I rise?' But [the] night is long, and I have my fill of tossing until dawn.

They make night into day, [saying], 'Light [is] {near to darkness}.'

He will fly away like a dream, and they will not find him, and he will be chased away like a vision of [the] night.

They spend the night naked, {without} clothing, and [they] have no garment in the cold.

{At dusk} the murderer rises; he kills [the] needy and [the] poor, and in the night he is like a thief.

Terrors overtake him like the water; a storm wind carries him off [in the] night.

My roots [were] open to water, and dew spent the night on my branches;

{At night I am in great pain}; my pains do not take a rest.

"In a dream, a vision of [the] night, when a deep sleep falls on men slumbering on [their] bed,

[In] a moment they die, and [in] the middle of [the] night [the] people are shaken, and they pass away, and they take away [the] mighty {effortlessly}.

Therefore he knows their works, and he overturns [them] [in the] night {so that} they are crushed.

But no one says, 'Where [is] God my Maker, [who] gives songs in the night,

You must not long for the night, to cut off people {in their place}.

"Is [the] wild ox willing to serve you, or will he spend the night at your feeding trough?

It lives [on the] rock and spends the night {on the rock point and the mountain stronghold}.

Instead, in the law of Yahweh [is] his delight, and on his law he meditates day and night.

I am weary with my groaning; {I flood} my bed every night. With my tears {I drench} my couch.

I will bless Yahweh who advises me; yes, [at] night my {innermost being} instructs me.

You have tried my heart; you have examined [me] by night; you have tested me; you found nothing. I have decided [that] my mouth will not transgress.

{Every day} [they] pour forth speech, and {every night} [they] tell knowledge.

O my God, I call by day and you do not answer, and [by] night but I have no rest.

For day and night your hand was heavy upon me. My vigor was changed into [the] dry heat of summer. Selah

My tears have been my food day and night, while [they] say to me all day [long], "Where [is] your God?"

By day Yahweh commands his loyal love, and in the night his song [is] with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble [are] in its midst.

{Morning, noon and night} I will lament and groan loudly, and he will hear my voice.

As for them, they wander for food. If they are not satisfied, then they continue all night.

When I remember you on my bed, I meditate on you in [the] night watches.

Yours [is the] day, yours [is the] night also. You established light and [the] sun.

In the day I [have] trouble, I seek the Lord. At night my hand stretches out {continually}; my soul refuses to be comforted.

I remember my song in the night. With my heart I meditate, and my spirit searches [to understand].

And he led them with the cloud by day, and all night with a fiery light.

O Yahweh, God of my salvation, I cry out by day [and] through the night before you.

For a thousand years in your eyes [are] like yesterday when it passes, or [like] a watch in the night.

You need not fear [the] terror of [the] night, [or the] arrow [that] flies by day,

to declare in the morning your loyal love and your faithfulness in the night,

You make darkness, and it is night, when all [the] animals of the forest creep about.

He spread out a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light at night.

I remember your name in the night, O Yahweh, and I heed your law.

[In the] middle of [the] night I rise to give you thanks, because of your righteous ordinances.

My eyes anticipate [the] night watches, that [I may] meditate on your word.

The sun will not strike you by day, nor [the] moon by night.

Look, bless Yahweh, all [you] the servants of Yahweh, who {serve} in the house of Yahweh by night.

The moon and stars to rule the night, for his loyal love [endures] forever.

And if I should say, "Surely darkness will cover me, and [the] light around me [will be as] night,"

even [the] darkness is not too dark for you, and [the] night shines as the day-- the darkness [and] the light are alike [for you].

at twilight, at [the] day's evening, in [the] midst of night and the darkness.

And she arises while [it is] still night, and gives food to her household, and tasks to her servant girls.

She perceives that her merchandise [is] good; her lamp does not go out in the night.

All his days [are] painful, his labor [brings] grief, and his heart cannot rest at night. This also [is] vanity!

I applied my mind to know wisdom and to understand the business that is done on earth--how neither day nor night one's eyes see sleep.

The fool is so worn out by a hard day's work {he cannot even find his way home at night}.

My beloved [is] to me {a pouch} of myrrh, he spends the night between my breasts.