'Night watch' in the Bible
But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night. “Watch yourself!” God warned him. “Don’t say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
So Gideon and the hundred men who [were] with him came to the edge of the camp [at] the beginning of the middle night-watch, when they had just finished setting up the guards, and they blew on the trumpets and smashed the jars that [were] in their hands.
One thousand years in your sight are but a single day that passes by, just like a night watch.
The burden of Dumah. He called to me from Seir, Watch, what of the night? watch, what of the night?