Night
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General scriptures concerning
Gen 1:5, 16, 18
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Genesis 1:516 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Genesis 1:1618 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:18 -
Meditations in
Ps 19:2; 77:6; 119:148; 139:11
2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
Psalms 19:26 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
Psalms 77:6148 Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.
Psalms 119:14811 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
Psalms 139:11 -
Worship in
Ps 134:1
1 Behold, bless ye the LORD, all ye servants of the LORD, which by night stand in the house of the LORD.
Psalms 134:1 -
Jesus prays all night
Luke 6:12
12 And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
Luke 6:12 -
No night in heaven
Rev 21:25; 22:5
25 And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.
Revelation 21:255 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.
Revelation 22:5 -
Divided into watches
Ex 14:24; Judg 7:19; 1 Sam 11:11; Neh 12:9; Ps 63:6; 119:148; Lam 2:19; Matt 14:25; Luke 12:38
24 And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
Exodus 14:2419 So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.
Judges 7:1911 And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to pass, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together.
1 Samuel 11:119 Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, were over against them in the watches.
Nehemiah 12:96 When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
Psalms 63:6148 Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.
Psalms 119:14819 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
Lamentations 2:1925 And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.
Matthew 14:2538 And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
Luke 12:38 -
Divided into hours
Acts 23:23
23 And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night;
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Used figuratively
Isa 15:1; 21:11, 12; John 9:4; Rom 13:12; 1 Thess 5:5
1 The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;
Isaiah 15:111 The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
Isaiah 21:1112 The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.
Isaiah 21:124 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
John 9:412 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Romans 13:125 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
1 Thessalonians 5:5
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
