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Night

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From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index.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.

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 1:16 God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. And He made the stars as well.
Genesis 1:18 to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

Psalm 19:2 Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.
Psalm 77:6 At night I remembered my song; in my heart I mused, and my spirit pondered:
Psalm 119:148 My eyes anticipate the watches of night, that I may meditate on Your word.
Psalm 139:11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—

Psalm 134:1 A song of ascents. Come, bless the LORD, all you servants of the LORD who serve by night in the house of the LORD!

Luke 6:12 In those days Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and He spent the night in prayer to God.

Revelation 21:25 Its gates will never be shut at the end of the day, because there will be no night there.
Revelation 22:5 There will be no more night in the city, and they will have no need for the light of a lamp or of the sun. For the Lord God will shine on them, and they will reign forever and ever.

Exodus 14:24 At morning watch, however, the LORD looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, and He threw their camp into confusion.
Judges 7:19 Gideon and the hundred men with him reached the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after the changing of the guard. They blew their horns and broke the jars that were in their hands.
1 Samuel 11:11 The next day Saul organized the troops into three divisions, and during the morning watch they invaded the camp of the Ammonites and slaughtered them, until the hottest part of the day. And the survivors were so scattered that no two of them were left together.
Nehemiah 12:9 Bakbukiah and Unni, their associates, stood across from them in the services.
Psalm 63:6 When I remember You on my bed, I think of You through the watches of the night.
Psalm 119:148 My eyes anticipate the watches of night, that I may meditate on Your word.
Lamentations 2:19 Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.
Matthew 14:25 During the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went out to them, walking on the sea.
Luke 12:38 Even if he comes in the second or third watch of the night and finds them alert, those servants will be blessed.

Acts 23:23 Then he called two of his centurions and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen to go to Caesarea in the third hour of the night.

Isaiah 15:1 This is the burden against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night!
Isaiah 21:11–12 This is the burden against Dumah: One calls to me from Seir, “Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?” The watchman replies, “Morning has come, but also the night. If you would inquire, then inquire. Come back yet again.”
John 9:4 While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
Romans 13:12 The night is nearly over; the day has drawn near. So let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
1 Thessalonians 5:5 For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness.

Scripture text: Berean Standard Bible.