Day
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A creative period
Gen 1:5, 8, 13, 19, 23, 31; 2:2
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Genesis 1:58 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Genesis 1:813 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
Genesis 1:1319 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Genesis 1:1923 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
Genesis 1:2331 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Genesis 1:312 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
Genesis 2:2 -
Divided into twelve hours
John 11:9
9 Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.
John 11:9 -
Prophetic
2 Pet 3:8; Dan 8:14; 9:24–27; 12:11, 12; Rev 11:3; 9:15; 12:6
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
2 Peter 3:814 And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
Daniel 8:1424 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. 25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. 26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. 27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Daniel 9:2411 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
Daniel 12:1112 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
Daniel 12:123 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
Revelation 11:315 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.
Revelation 9:156 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Revelation 12:6 -
Six working days ordained
Ex 20:9; Ezek 46:1
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
Exodus 20:91 Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
Ezekiel 46:1 -
Th sixth day of the week called preparation day
Mark 15:42; John 19:14, 31, 42
42 And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,
Mark 15:4214 And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!
John 19:1431 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
John 19:3142 There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.
John 19:42 -
The first day of the week called the Lord’s day
Rev 1:10
10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
Revelation 1:10 -
Day’s journey, eighteen or twenty miles
Ex 3:18; 1 Kgs 19:4; Jonah 3:4
18 And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.
Exodus 3:184 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
1 Kings 19:44 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
Jonah 3:4 -
Sabbath day’s journey, about two-thousand paces
Acts 1:12
12 Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's journey.
Acts 1:12 - The seventh of the week ordained as a day of rest
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Times of adversity called Day of the Lord
Isa 2:12; 13:6, 9; 34:8; Jer 46:10; Lam 2:22; Ezek 30:3; Amos 5:18; Joel 2:1; Obad 1:15; Zeph 1:8, 18; 2:2, 3; Zech 14:1
12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
Isaiah 2:126 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
Isaiah 13:69 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
Isaiah 13:98 For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
Isaiah 34:810 For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
Jeremiah 46:1022 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
Lamentations 2:223 For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.
Ezekiel 30:318 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
Amos 5:181 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
Joel 2:115 For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.
Obadiah 1:158 And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD'S sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel.
Zephaniah 1:818 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
Zephaniah 1:182 Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD'S anger come upon you.
Zephaniah 2:23 Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.
Zephaniah 2:31 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
Zechariah 14:1 - Judgment
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Called THE DAY OF THE LORD
Mal 4:5; 1 Cor 5:5; 2 Cor 1:14; 1 Thess 5:2; 2 Pet 3:10
5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
Malachi 4:55 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
1 Corinthians 5:514 As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.
2 Corinthians 1:142 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
1 Thessalonians 5:210 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
2 Peter 3:10 - See Judgment
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A figure of spiritual illumination
Prov 4:18; 1 Thess 5:8
18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Proverbs 4:188 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
1 Thessalonians 5:8
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
