98 Bible Verses about Night

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Genesis 1:14-18

And God said, "Let there be lights in the vaulted dome of heaven {to separate day from night}, and let them be as signs and for appointed times, and for days and years, and they shall be as lights in the vaulted dome of heaven to give light on the earth." And it [was] so. And God made two lights, the greater light to rule the day and the smaller light to rule the night, and the stars.read more.
And God placed them in the vaulted dome of heaven to give light on the earth and to rule over the day and over the night, and to {separate light from darkness}. And God saw that [it was] good.

Judges 19:9

And the man got up to go--he, his concubine, and his servant--but his father-in-law, the father of the young woman, said to him, "Please, the day has worn on to evening; please, spend the night, the day has drawn to a close. Spend the night here and {enjoy yourself}. You can rise early tomorrow for your journey and {go to your home}."

John 11:9-10

Jesus replied, Are [there] not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks around in the daylight, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. But if anyone walks around in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.

Genesis 15:12

And it happened, as the sun {went down}, then a deep sleep fell upon Abram and, behold, a great terrifying darkness fell upon him.

Genesis 28:11

And he arrived at a [certain] place and spent the night there, because the sun had set. And he took [one] of the stones of the place and put [it] under his head and slept at that place.

Job 4:13

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

Psalm 42:3

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

Jeremiah 9:1

{Oh that my head were waters}, and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I might weep day and night, [for] the slain of the daughter of my people.

Jeremiah 14:17

"And you shall say to them this word, 'Let my eyes melt [with] tears night and day, and let them not cease, for [with] a great wound the virgin daughter of my people is broken, [with] a very incurable wound.

Nehemiah 1:6

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.

Luke 18:7

And will not God surely {see to it that justice is done} to his chosen ones who cry out to him day and night, and will he delay toward them?

Acts 26:7

to which our twelve tribes hope to attain as [they] earnestly serve [him] night and day. Concerning this hope I am being accused by the Jews, O king!

Revelation 4:8

And the four living creatures, {each one} of them, had six wings apiece, full of eyes around and inside, and they do not have rest day and night, saying, "Holy, holy, holy [is] the Lord God All-Powerful, the one who was and the one who is and the one who is coming!"

Revelation 7:15

Because of this, they are before the throne of God, and they serve him day and night in his temple, and the one who is seated on the throne {will shelter} them.

1 Chronicles 9:33

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.

2 Thessalonians 3:8

nor did we eat bread from anyone without paying, but with toil and labor, [we were] working night and day in order not to be a burden to any of you,

Lamentations 2:19

"Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the night watches; pour out your heart like water, before the face of the Lord. Lift to him your hands, for the life of your children, who faint in starvation, at the head of all streets."

Judges 7:19

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.

Exodus 14:24

And during the morning watch, Yahweh looked down to the Egyptian camp [from] in the column of fire and cloud, and he threw the Egyptian camp into a panic.

Mark 13:35

Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming--whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or early in the morning--

Matthew 14:25

And in the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea.

Mark 6:48

And he saw them being beaten in their rowing because the wind was against them. Around the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea, and he was wanting to pass by them.

Luke 12:38

Even if he should come back in the second or in the third watch of the night and find [them] like this, blessed are they!

John 13:30

So [after he] had taken the piece of bread, he went out immediately. And it was night.

Job 30:26

Indeed, I hoped for good, but evil came, and I waited for light, but darkness came.

Luke 22:53

Every day [when] I was with you in the temple [courts], you did not stretch out [your] hands against me! But this is your hour and the domain of darkness!"

Proverbs 2:13

those who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in ways of darkness,

John 3:19-20

And this is the judgment: that the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone who practices evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds be exposed.

Job 24:14

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

Proverbs 7:8-9

passing on the street {at} her corner, and he takes the road [to] her house, at twilight, at [the] day's evening, in [the] midst of night and the darkness.

Jeremiah 49:9

If grape-gatherers come to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves in the night, they destroy [only] {enough for them}.

John 12:35-36

So Jesus said to them, "Yet a little time the light is with you! Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness does not overtake you! And the one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going. While you have the light, believe in the light, in order that you may become sons of light." Jesus said these [things], and [then] he went away [and] was hidden from them.

Matthew 24:42-44

Therefore be on the alert, because you do not know what day your Lord is coming! But understand this: that if the master of the house had known what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. For this [reason] you also must be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not think [he will come].

Mark 13:36-37

lest he arrive suddenly [and] find you sleeping. And what I say to you, I say to everyone: Be on the alert!"

Psalm 107:13-14

Then they called to Yahweh for help in their trouble; he saved them from their distresses. He brought them out of darkness and gloom, and tore off their bonds.

Isaiah 59:9

Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We wait for light, but look! [there is] darkness; for brightness, [but] we walk in darkness.

Psalm 6:6

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

Lamentations 1:2

She weeps bitterly in the night, her tears [are] on her cheeks; she has no comforter among all her lovers. All her friends have been unfaithful to her; they have become her enemies.

Psalm 22:2

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

Psalm 77:6

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

Psalm 139:1-2

O Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know [me]. You know my sitting down and my rising up. You understand my thought from afar.

Psalm 149:5

Let [the] faithful exult in glory; let them sing for joy on their beds.

Isaiah 30:29

{You shall have a song} as [in] [the] night when a holy festival is kept, and a gladness of heart like one who goes with the flute, to go to the mountain of Yahweh, to the rock of Israel.

Psalm 63:6

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

Isaiah 26:9

I desire you [with all] my soul in the night; also I seek you [with] my spirit within me, for when your judgments [are] {upon} the earth, [the] inhabitants of [the] world learn righteousness.

1 Samuel 3:4

Then Yahweh called out to Samuel and he said, "Here I am!"

2 Chronicles 7:12

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.

Daniel 2:19

Then in a vision of the night the mystery was revealed to Daniel; then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.

Daniel 7:2

Daniel {explained} and said, "I was looking in my vision in the night, and look, the four winds of heaven were stirring [up] the great sea.

Zechariah 1:8

{I had a vision in the night}, and look, a man riding on a red horse. And he [was] standing between the myrtle shrubs that [were] in the ravine, and behind him [were] red, reddish-brown, and white horses.

Acts 23:11

And the next night the Lord stood by him [and] said, "Have courage, for as you have testified about me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify in Rome."

Genesis 20:3

And God came to Abimelech in a dream at night. And he said to him, "Look, you [are] a dead man on account of the woman you have taken. For she [is] {a married woman}."

Genesis 31:24

And God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, "{Take care} that you not speak with Jacob, whether good or evil."

1 Kings 3:5

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

Job 33:15

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

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Genesis 32:24

And Jacob remained alone, and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the dawn.

Family Joy » Future » Maternal and paternal love » Night

Revelation 22:5

And night will not exist [any] longer, and they will not have need of the light of a lamp and the light of the sun, because the Lord God will give light to them, and they will reign {forever and ever}.

Israel » Journey » Night

Exodus 12:42

It [is] a night of vigils [belonging] to Yahweh for bringing them out from the land of Egypt; it [is] this night [belonging] to Yahweh [with] vigils for all of the {Israelites} throughout their generations.

Night » Divided into watches

1 Samuel 11:11

{And the} next day Saul placed the people [in] three divisions. Then they came into the middle of the camp {at the early morning watch} and struck down {the Ammonites} until the heat of the day. It happened that the remainder were scattered {so that no two among them remained together}.

Exodus 14:24

And during the morning watch, Yahweh looked down to the Egyptian camp [from] in the column of fire and cloud, and he threw the Egyptian camp into a panic.

Nehemiah 12:9

And Bakbukiah, Unno, their brothers [stood] opposite them during service.

Lamentations 2:19

"Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the night watches; pour out your heart like water, before the face of the Lord. Lift to him your hands, for the life of your children, who faint in starvation, at the head of all streets."

Matthew 14:25

And in the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea.

Night » Type of ignorance and sin

Revelation 22:5

And night will not exist [any] longer, and they will not have need of the light of a lamp and the light of the sun, because the Lord God will give light to them, and they will reign {forever and ever}.

Revelation 21:25

And its gates will never be shut by day (for there will be no night there),

Night » God frequently » Revealed his will in

Genesis 31:24

And God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, "{Take care} that you not speak with Jacob, whether good or evil."

Numbers 22:30

The donkey said to Balaam, "Am I not your donkey on which you have ridden all your life until this day? Have I been in the habit of doing this to you?" He said, "No."

Daniel 7:2

Daniel {explained} and said, "I was looking in my vision in the night, and look, the four winds of heaven were stirring [up] the great sea.

Night » God frequently » Executed his judgments in

2 Kings 19:35

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.

Daniel 5:30

{That same night} Belshazzar, the Chaldean king, was killed.

Exodus 12:12

"And I will go through the land of Egypt during this night, and I will strike all of the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from human to animal, and I will do punishments among all of the gods of Egypt. I [am] Yahweh.

Job 27:20

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

Night » Used figuratively

Isaiah 15:1

An oracle of Moab: Because Ar is devastated in a night, Moab is destroyed; because Kir of Moab is devastated in a night, it is destroyed.

Isaiah 21:11-12

The oracle of Dumah: [One is] calling to me from Seir, "Watchman, what {of} [the] night? Watchman, what {of} [the] night?" [The] watchman says, "Morning comes, and also [the] night. If you will inquire, inquire; {come back again}."

Night » Originally divided into three watches

Exodus 14:24

And during the morning watch, Yahweh looked down to the Egyptian camp [from] in the column of fire and cloud, and he threw the Egyptian camp into a panic.

Lamentations 2:19

"Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the night watches; pour out your heart like water, before the face of the Lord. Lift to him your hands, for the life of your children, who faint in starvation, at the head of all streets."

Judges 7:19

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.

Night » Frequently » Accompanied by heavy dews

Judges 6:38

And it was so. He arose early the next day and squeezed the fleece, and he wrung out dew from the fleece, a full drinking bowl of water.

Numbers 11:9

When the dew came down on the camp [at] night, the manna came down [with] it.

Judges 6:40

And God did so that night; only the fleece was dry, and dew was on all the ground.

Night » Divided into four watches by the romans

Matthew 14:25

And in the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea.

Luke 12:38

Even if he should come back in the second or in the third watch of the night and find [them] like this, blessed are they!

Mark 13:35

Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming--whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or early in the morning--

Night » Continued until sunrise

Psalm 104:22

[When] the sun rises, they gather together and lie down in their dens.

Mark 16:2

And very early in the morning on the first [day] of the week they came to the tomb [after] the sun had risen.

Night » General references to the natural

Psalm 19:2

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

Psalm 134:1

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

Night » The jews » In affliction spent, in sorrow and humiliation

Psalm 6:6

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

Joel 1:13

Gird yourselves and lament, O priests! Wail, ministers of [the] altar! Come spend the night in sackcloth, ministers of my God, because offering and libation are withheld from the house of your God.

Night » The moon and stars designed to rule and give light by

Jeremiah 31:35

Thus says Yahweh, who gives [the] sun for light by day, the regulations of [the] moon and [the] stars for light [by] night, who stirs up the sea and its waves roar--Yahweh of hosts [is] his name.

Genesis 1:16-18

And God made two lights, the greater light to rule the day and the smaller light to rule the night, and the stars. And God placed them in the vaulted dome of heaven to give light on the earth and to rule over the day and over the night, and to {separate light from darkness}. And God saw that [it was] good.

Night » Wild beasts go forth in search of prey during

2 Samuel 21:10

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.

Psalm 104:21-22

The young lions [are] roaring for the prey and seeking their food from God. [When] the sun rises, they gather together and lie down in their dens.

Night » Meditations in

Psalm 19:2

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

Psalm 77:6

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

Psalm 119:148

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

Psalm 139:11

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

Night » Frequently » Cold and frosty

Jeremiah 36:30

{Therefore} thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, "There will not be for him [one who] sits on the throne of David. And his dead body will be thrown out to the heat in the day and to the frost in the night.

Night » Regular succession of » Established by covenant

Jeremiah 33:20

"Thus says Yahweh: 'If you could break my covenant [with] the day, and my covenant [with] the night, so that day and night [would] not come at their time,

Night » Favorable to the purposes of the wicked

Genesis 31:39

I brought no mangled carcass to you--I bore its loss. From my hand you sought it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

Job 24:14-15

{At dusk} the murderer rises; he kills [the] needy and [the] poor, and in the night he is like a thief. And [the] eye of [the] adulterer waits for dusk, saying, {'No eye will see me,'} and he places a covering [on his] face.

Night » God frequently » Visited his people in

Psalm 17:3

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.

1 Kings 3:5

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

Night » Eastern shepherds watched over their flocks during

Night » Illustrative of » Seasons of severe calamities

Amos 5:8

The one who made the Pleiades and Orion and who turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens day [into] night, the one who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh [is] his name!

Isaiah 21:12

[The] watchman says, "Morning comes, and also [the] night. If you will inquire, inquire; {come back again}."

Night » Illustrative of » Seasons of spiritual desertion

Song of Songs 3:1

On my bed in the night, I sought him whom my {heart} loves. I sought him, but I did not find him.

Night » Eastern fishermen continued their employment during

Luke 5:5

And Simon answered [and] said, "Master, [although we] worked hard through the whole night, we caught nothing. But at your word I will let down the nets."

John 21:3

Simon Peter said to them, "I am going fishing!" They said to him, "We also are coming with you." They went out and got into the boat, and during that night they caught nothing.

Night » The jews » Forbidden to allow malefactors to hang during

Deuteronomy 21:23

his dead body shall not hang on the tree, but certainly you shall bury him on that day, for cursed by God [is] one that is [being] hung; so you shall not defile your land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you [as an] inheritance."

Night » The jews » Forbidden to keep the wages of servants during

Night » The jews » Often kept lamps burning during

Proverbs 31:18

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

Night » No night in heaven

Revelation 22:5

And night will not exist [any] longer, and they will not have need of the light of a lamp and the light of the sun, because the Lord God will give light to them, and they will reign {forever and ever}.

Revelation 21:25

And its gates will never be shut by day (for there will be no night there),

Night » Commenced at sunset

Genesis 28:11

And he arrived at a [certain] place and spent the night there, because the sun had set. And he took [one] of the stones of the place and put [it] under his head and slept at that place.

Night » Illustrative of » Spiritual darkness

Night » Frequently » Exceeding dark

Proverbs 7:9

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

Night » The heavenly bodies designed to separate day from

Night » Designed for rest

Night » Caused by God

Psalm 104:20

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

Night » The darkness first called

Night » Belongs to God

Night » Regular succession of » Ordained for the glory of God

Psalm 19:2

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

Night » The jews » In affliction spent, in prayer

Psalm 22:2

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

Night » Unsuitable for travelling

John 11:10

But if anyone walks around in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.

Night » Wearisome to the afflicted

Job 7:3-4

So {I had to inherit} months of worthlessness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me. When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I rise?' But [the] night is long, and I have my fill of tossing until dawn.

Night » Illustrative of » death

Night » Divided into hours

Acts 23:23

And he summoned two of the centurions [and] said, "Make ready from the third hour of the night two hundred soldiers and seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen, in order that they may proceed as far as Caesarea.

Night » Worship in

Psalm 134:1

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

Night » Unsuitable for labor

Night » Jesus prays all night

Prayer » Night » All Night Prayers » jacob

Genesis 32:24

And Jacob remained alone, and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the dawn.

the seven No mores » No more » Night

Revelation 22:5

And night will not exist [any] longer, and they will not have need of the light of a lamp and the light of the sun, because the Lord God will give light to them, and they will reign {forever and ever}.

the future » No more » Night

Revelation 22:5

And night will not exist [any] longer, and they will not have need of the light of a lamp and the light of the sun, because the Lord God will give light to them, and they will reign {forever and ever}.

Topics on Night

Acting All Night

Exodus 27:21

In the tent of assembly outside the curtain that [is] before the testimony, Aaron and his sons will arrange it, from evening until morning, before Yahweh [as] a lasting statute throughout their generations from the {Israelites}.

Protection Day And Night

1 Samuel 25:16

They were a wall to us both night and day, all {the days we were} with them keeping the sheep.

Visions At Night

Genesis 40:5

And the two of them, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who [were] confined in the prison, dreamed a dream, each his own dream, with its own interpretation.

Walking All Night

1 Samuel 31:12

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.

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