Day

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

A creative period

• Genesis 1:5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness He called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning — the first day.
• Genesis 1:8 God called the expanse “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning — the second day.
• Genesis 1:13 And there was evening, and there was morning — the third day.
• Genesis 1:19 And there was evening, and there was morning — the fourth day.
• Genesis 1:23 And there was evening, and there was morning — the fifth day.
• Genesis 1:31 And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning — the sixth day.
• Genesis 2:2 And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.

Divided into twelve hours

• John 11:9 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? If anyone walks in the daytime, he will not stumble, because he sees by the light of this world.

Prophetic

• 2 Peter 3:8 Beloved, do not let this one thing escape your notice: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.
• Daniel 8:14 He said to me, “It will take 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be properly restored.”
• Daniel 9:24–27 Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place. Know and understand this: From the issuance of th…
• Daniel 12:11–12 And from the time the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination of desolation set up, there will be 1,290 days. Blessed is he who waits and reaches the end of the 1,335 days.
• Revelation 11:3 And I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”
• Revelation 9:15 So the four angels who had been prepared for this hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.
• Revelation 12:6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where God had prepared a place for her to be nourished for 1,260 days.

Six working days ordained

• Exodus 20:9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
• Ezekiel 46:1 “This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘The gate of the inner court that faces east must be kept shut during the six days of work, but on the Sabbath day and on the day of the New Moon it shall be opened.

Th sixth day of the week called preparation day

• Mark 15:42 Now it was already evening. Since it was Preparation Day (that is, the day before the Sabbath),
• John 19:14 It was the day of Preparation for the Passover, about the sixth hour. And Pilate said to the Jews, “Here is your King!”
• John 19:31 It was the day of Preparation, and the next day was a High Sabbath. In order that the bodies would not remain on the cross during the Sabbath, the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed.
• John 19:42 And because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and the tomb was nearby, they placed Jesus there.

The first day of the week called the Lord's day

• Revelation 1:10 On the Lord’s day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,

Day's journey, eighteen or twenty miles

• Exodus 3:18 The elders of Israel will listen to what you say, and you must go with them to the king of Egypt and tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.’
• 1 Kings 19:4 while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
• Jonah 3:4 On the first day of his journey, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned!”

Sabbath day's journey, about two-thousand paces

• Acts 1:12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, which is near the city, a Sabbath day’s journey away.

The seventh of the week ordained as a day of rest

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Times of adversity called Day of the Lord

• Isaiah 2:12 For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted— it will be humbled—
• Isaiah 13:6 Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
• Isaiah 13:9 Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming— cruel, with fury and burning anger— to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.
• Isaiah 34:8 For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
• Jeremiah 46:10 For that day belongs to the Lord GOD of Hosts, a day of vengeance against His foes. The sword will devour until it is satisfied, until it is quenched with their blood. For the Lord GOD of Hosts will hold a sacrifice in the land of the north by the River Euphrates.
• Lamentations 2:22 You summoned my terrors on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the LORD’s anger no one escaped or survived; my enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.
• Ezekiel 30:3 For the day is near, the Day of the LORD is near. It will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.
• Amos 5:18 Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.
• Joel 2:1 Blow the ram’s horn in Zion; sound the alarm on My holy mountain! Let all who dwell in the land tremble, for the Day of the LORD is coming; indeed, it is near—
• Obadiah 1:15 For the Day of the LORD is near for all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your recompense will return upon your own head.

Judgment

Called THE DAY OF THE LORD

• Malachi 4:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.
• 1 Corinthians 5:5 hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the Day of the Lord.
• 2 Corinthians 1:14 as you have already understood us in part, that you may boast of us just as we will boast of you in the day of our Lord Jesus.
• 1 Thessalonians 5:2 For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
• 2 Peter 3:10 But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and its works will be laid bare.

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A figure of spiritual illumination

• Proverbs 4:18 The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.
• 1 Thessalonians 5:8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet of our hope of salvation.