'Morning' in the Bible

so he told him: “My father Saul intends to kill you. Be on your guard in the morning and hide in a secret place and stay there.

Saul sent agents to David’s house to watch for him and kill him in the morning. But his wife Michal warned David, “If you don’t escape tonight, you will be dead tomorrow!”

In the morning Jonathan went out to the field for the appointed meeting with David. A small young man was with him.

May God punish me and do so severely if I let any of his men survive until morning.”

Otherwise, as surely as the Lord God of Israel lives, who prevented me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, Nabal wouldn’t have had any men left by morning light.”

Then Abigail went to Nabal, and there he was in his house, holding a feast fit for a king. Nabal was in a good mood and very drunk, so she didn’t say anything to him until morning light.

In the morning when Nabal sobered up, his wife told him about these events. Then he had a seizure and became paralyzed.

So get up early in the morning, you and your masters’ servants who came with you. When you’ve all gotten up early, go as soon as it’s light.”

So David and his men got up early in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

“As God lives,” Joab replied, “if you had not spoken up, the troops wouldn’t have stopped pursuing their brothers until morning.”

So Abner and his men marched through the Arabah all that night. They crossed the Jordan, marched all morning, and arrived at Mahanaim.

The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.

and he asked Amnon, “Why are you, the king’s son, so miserable every morning? Won’t you tell me?”Amnon replied, “I’m in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”

is like the morning light when the sun riseson a cloudless morning,the glisten of rain on sprouting grass.”

When David got up in the morning, a revelation from the Lord had come to the prophet Gad, David’s seer:

So the Lord sent a plague on Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and from Dan to Beer-sheba 70,000 men died.

When I got up in the morning to nurse my son, I discovered he was dead. That morning, when I looked closely at him I realized that he was not the son I gave birth to.”

The ravens kept bringing him bread and meat in the morning and in the evening, and he drank from the wadi.

So they took the bull that he gave them, prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, “Baal, answer us!” But there was no sound; no one answered. Then they danced, hobbling around the altar they had made.

About the time for the grain offering the next morning, water suddenly came from the direction of Edom and filled the land.

When they got up early in the morning, the sun was shining on the water, and the Moabites saw that the water across from them was red like blood.

Then they said to each other, “We’re not doing what is right. Today is a day of good news. If we are silent and wait until morning light, our sin will catch up with us. Let’s go tell the king’s household.”

When the messenger came and told him, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons,” the king said, “Pile them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until morning.”

The next morning when he went out and stood at the gate, he said to all the people, “You are innocent. It was I who conspired against my master and killed him. But who struck down all these?

Then King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, “Offer on the great altar the morning burnt offering, the evening grain offering, and the king’s burnt offering and his grain offering. Also offer the burnt offering of all the people of the land, their grain offering, and their drink offerings. Sprinkle on the altar all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood of sacrifice. The bronze altar will be for me to seek guidance.”

That night the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!

They spent the night in the vicinity of God’s temple, because they had guard duty and were in charge of opening it every morning.

to offer burnt offerings regularly, morning and evening, to the Lord on the altar of burnt offerings and to do everything that was written in the law of the Lord, which He had commanded Israel to keep.

They are also to stand every morning to give thanks and praise to the Lord, and likewise in the evening.

Now I am building a temple for the name of Yahweh my God in order to dedicate it to Him for burning fragrant incense before Him, for displaying the rows of the bread of the Presence continuously, and for sacrificing burnt offerings for the morning and the evening, the Sabbaths and the New Moons, and the appointed festivals of the Lord our God. This is ordained for Israel forever.

They offer a burnt offering and fragrant incense to the Lord every morning and every evening, and they set the rows of the bread of the Presence on the ceremonially clean table. They light the lamps of the gold lampstand every evening. We are carrying out the requirements of Yahweh our God, while you have abandoned Him.

In the morning they got up early and went out to the wilderness of Tekoa. As they were about to go out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem. Believe in Yahweh your God, and you will be established; believe in His prophets, and you will succeed.”

The king contributed from his own possessions for the regular morning and evening burnt offerings, the burnt offerings of the Sabbaths, of the New Moons, and of the appointed feasts, as written in the law of the Lord.

They set up the altar on its foundation and offered burnt offerings for the morning and evening on it to the Lord even though they feared the surrounding peoples.

She would go in the evening, and in the morning she would return to a second harem under the supervision of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch in charge of the concubines. She never went to the king again, unless he desired her and summoned her by name.

His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows 75 feet high. Ask the king in the morning to hang Mordecai on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.” The advice pleased Haman, so he had the gallows constructed.

Whenever a round of banqueting was over, Job would send for his children and purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought: Perhaps my children have sinned, having cursed God in their hearts. This was Job’s regular practice.

May its morning stars grow dark.May it wait for daylight but have none;may it not see the breaking of dawn.

You inspect him every morning,and put him to the test every moment.

Your life will be brighter than noonday;its darkness will be like the morning.

For the morning is like darkness to them.Surely they are familiar with the terrors of darkness!

while the morning stars sang togetherand all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Have you ever in your life commanded the morningor assigned the dawn its place,

For His anger lasts only a moment,but His favor, a lifetime.Weeping may spend the night,but there is joy in the morning.

God is within her; she will not be toppled.God will help her when the morning dawns.

Like sheep they are headed for Sheol;Death will shepherd them.The upright will rule over them in the morning,and their form will waste away in Sheol,far from their lofty abode.

I complain and groan morning, noon, and night,and He hears my voice.

But I will sing of Your strengthand will joyfully proclaimYour faithful love in the morning.For You have been a stronghold for me,a refuge in my day of trouble.

For I am afflicted all day longand punished every morning.

But I call to You for help, Lord;in the morning my prayer meets You.

You end their lives; they sleep.They are like grass that grows in the morning—

in the morning it sprouts and grows;by evening it withers and dries up.

Satisfy us in the morning with Your faithful loveso that we may shout with joy and be glad all our days.

to declare Your faithful love in the morningand Your faithfulness at night,

Every morning I will destroyall the wicked of the land,eliminating all evildoers from the Lord’s city.

I wait for the Lordmore than watchmen for the morning—more than watchmen for the morning.

Let me experienceYour faithful love in the morning,for I trust in You.Reveal to me the way I should gobecause I long for You.

Come, let’s drink deeply of lovemaking until morning.Let’s feast on each other’s love!

If one blesses his neighborwith a loud voice early in the morning,it will be counted as a curse to him.

Woe to you, land, when your king is a youthand your princes feast in the morning.

In the morning sow your seed,and at evening do not let your hand rest,because you don’t know which will succeed,whether one or the other,or if both of them will be equally good.

Woe to those who rise early in the morningin pursuit of beer,who linger into the evening,inflamed by wine.

Shining morning star,how you have fallen from the heavens!You destroyer of nations,you have been cut down to the ground.

On the day that you plant,you will help them to grow,and in the morningyou will help your seed to sprout,but the harvest will vanishon the day of disease and incurable pain.

In the evening—sudden terror!Before morning—it is gone!This is the fate of those who plunder usand the lot of those who ravage us.

The watchman said,“Morning has come, and also night.If you want to ask, ask!Come back again.”

Your dead will live; their bodies will rise.Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust!For you will be covered with the morning dew,and the earth will bring out the departed spirits.

Every time it passes through,it will carry you away;it will pass through every morning—every day and every night.Only terror will cause youto understand the message.

Lord, be gracious to us! We wait for You.Be our strength every morningand our salvation in time of trouble.

Then the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!

I thought until the morning:He will break all my bones like a lion;You make an end of me day and night.

The Lord God has given Methe tongue of those who are instructedto know how to sustain the weary with a word.He awakens Me each morning;He awakens My ear to listen like those being instructed.

Let that man be like the citiesthe Lord demolished without compassion.Let him hear an outcry in the morningand a war cry at noontime

House of David, this is what the Lord says:Administer justice every morning,and rescue the victim of robberyfrom the hand of his oppressor,or My anger will flare up like fireand burn unquenchablybecause of their evil deeds.

They are new every morning;great is Your faithfulness!

Then the word of the Lord came to me in the morning:

I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening. The next morning I did just as I was commanded.

Now the hand of the Lord had been on me the evening before the fugitive arrived, and He opened my mouth before the man came to me in the morning. So my mouth was opened and I was no longer mute.

“You must offer an unblemished year-old male lamb as a daily burnt offering to the Lord; you will offer it every morning.

You must also prepare a grain offering every morning along with it: three quarts, with one-third of a gallon of oil to moisten the fine flour—a grain offering to the Lord. This is a permanent statute to be observed regularly.

They will offer the lamb, the grain offering, and the oil every morning as a regular burnt offering.

What am I going to do with you, Ephraim?What am I going to do with you, Judah?Your loyalty is like the morning mistand like the early dew that vanishes.

For they—their hearts like an oven—draw him into their oven.Their anger smolders all night;in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.

Therefore, they will be like the morning mist,like the early dew that vanishes,like chaff blown from a threshing floor,or like smoke from a window.

Come to Bethel and rebel;rebel even more at Gilgal!Bring your sacrifices every morning,your tenths every three days.

Woe to those who dream up wickednessand prepare evil plans on their beds!At morning light they accomplish itbecause the power is in their hands.

The princes within her are roaring lions;her judges are wolves of the night,which leave nothing for the morning.

The righteous Lord is in her;He does no wrong.He applies His justice morning by morning;He does not fail at dawn,yet the one who does wrong knows no shame.

Around three in the morning, He came toward them walking on the sea.

And in the morning, ‘Today will be stormy because the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to read the appearance of the sky, but you can’t read the signs of the times.

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.

When he went out about nine in the morning, he saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing.

Early in the morning, as He was returning to the city, He was hungry.

Just then Jesus met them and said, “Good morning!” They came up, took hold of His feet, and worshiped Him.

Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, He got up, went out, and made His way to a deserted place. And He was praying there.

He saw them being battered as they rowed, because the wind was against them. Around three in the morning He came toward them walking on the sea and wanted to pass by them.

Early in the morning, as they were passing by, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots up.

Therefore be alert, since you don’t know when the master of the house is coming—whether in the evening or at midnight or at the crowing of the rooster or early in the morning.

As soon as it was morning, the chief priests had a meeting with the elders, scribes, and the whole Sanhedrin. After tying Jesus up, they led Him away and handed Him over to Pilate.

Now it was nine in the morning when they crucified Him.