Night
71 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
41 sections
- Belongs to God
- Caused by God
- Commenced at Sunset
- Continued Until Sunrise
- Death
- Designed for Rest
- Divided Into Four Watches by the Romans
- Divided Into Hours
- Divided Into Watches
- Eastern Fishermen Continued Their Employment During
- Eastern Shepherds Watched Over Their Flocks During
- Favourable to the Purposes of the Wicked
- Frequently: Accompanied by Heavy Dew
- Frequently: Cold and Frosty
- Frequently: Exceeding Dark
- General Scriptures Concerning
- God Frequently: Executed his Judgments In
- God Frequently: Revealed his Will In
- God Frequently: Visited his People In
- Jesus Prays all Night
- Meditations In
- No Night in Heaven
- Originally Divided Into Three Watches
- Regular Succession of Established by Covenant
- Regular Succession of Ordained for the Glory of God
- Seasons of Severe Calamities
- Seasons of Spiritual Desertion
- Spiritual Darkness
- The Darkness First Called
- The Heavenly Bodies Designed to Separate Day From
- The Jews in Affliction Spent, in Prayer
- The Jews in Affliction Spent, in Sorrow and Humiliation
- The Jews: Forbidden to Allow Malefactors to Hang During
- The Jews: Forbidden to Keep the Wages of Servants During
- The Jews: Often Kept Lamps Burning During
- The Moon and Stars Designed to Rule and Give Light By
- Unsuitable for Labour
- Unsuitable for Travelling
- Wearisome to the Afflicted
- Wild Beasts Go Forth in Search of Prey During
- Worship In
Belongs to God
- Psalm 74:16 The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.
Caused by God
- Psalm 104:20 You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.
Commenced at Sunset
- Genesis 28:11 On reaching a certain place, he spent the night there because the sun had set. And taking one of the stones from that place, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.
Continued Until Sunrise
- Psalm 104:22 The sun rises, and they withdraw; they lie down in their dens.
- Matthew 28:1 After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb.
- Mark 16:2 Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they went to the tomb.
Death
- 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.
Designed for Rest
- Psalm 104:23 Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until evening.
Divided Into Four Watches by the Romans
- 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.
- Matthew 14:25 During the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went out to them, walking on the sea.
- Mark 13:35 Therefore keep watch, because you do not know when the master of the house will return — whether in the evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or in the morning.
Divided Into Hours
- 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.
Divided Into Watches
- 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 …
- 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.
Eastern Fishermen Continued Their Employment During
- Luke 5:5 “Master,” Simon replied, “we have worked hard all night without catching anything. But because You say so, I will let down the nets.”
- John 21:3 Simon Peter told them, “I am going fishing.” “We will go with you,” they said. So they went out and got into the boat, but caught nothing that night.
Eastern Shepherds Watched Over Their Flocks During
- Genesis 31:40 As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
- Luke 2:8 And there were shepherds residing in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks by night.
Favourable to the Purposes of the Wicked
- Genesis 31:39 I did not bring you anything torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for what was stolen by day or night.
- Job 24:14–15 When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief. …
- Obadiah 5 “If thieves came to you, if robbers by night — oh, how you will be ruined — would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?
- 1 Thessalonians 5:2 For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
Frequently: Accompanied by Heavy Dew
- Numbers 11:9 When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.
- Judges 6:38 And that is what happened. When Gideon arose the next morning, he squeezed the fleece and wrung out the dew — a bowlful of water.
- Judges 6:40 And that night God did so. Only the fleece was dry, and dew covered the ground.
- Job 29:19 My roots will spread out to the waters, and the dew will rest nightly on my branches.
- Song of Solomon 5:2 I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
Frequently: Cold and Frosty
- Genesis 31:40 As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
- Jeremiah 36:30 Therefore this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on David’s throne, and his body will be thrown out and exposed to heat by day and frost by night.
Frequently: Exceeding Dark
- Proverbs 7:9 at twilight, as the day was fading into the dark of the night.
General Scriptures Concerning
- 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.
God Frequently: Executed his Judgments In
- Exodus 12:12 On that night I will pass through the land of Egypt and strike down every firstborn male, both man and beast, and I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.
- 2 Kings 19:35 And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
- Job 27:20 Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.
- Daniel 5:30 That very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,
God Frequently: Revealed his Will In
- Genesis 31:24 But that night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
- Genesis 46:2 And that night God spoke to Israel in a vision: “Jacob, Jacob!” He said. “Here I am,” replied Jacob.
- Numbers 22:30 But the donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not the donkey you have ridden all your life until today? Have I ever treated you this way before?” “No,” he replied.
- Daniel 7:2 Daniel declared: “In my vision in the night I looked, and suddenly the four winds of heaven were churning up the great sea.
God Frequently: Visited his People In
- 1 Kings 3:5 One night at Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream, and God said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!”
- Psalm 17:3 You have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have tested me and found no evil; I have resolved not to sin with my mouth.
Jesus Prays all Night
- Luke 6:12 In those days Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and He spent the night in prayer to God.
Meditations In
- 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”—
No Night in Heaven
- 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.
Originally Divided Into Three Watches
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Regular Succession of Established by Covenant
- Genesis 8:22 As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”
- Jeremiah 33:20 “This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,
Regular Succession of Ordained for the Glory of God
- Psalm 19:2 Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.
Seasons of Severe Calamities
- Isaiah 21:12 The watchman replies, “Morning has come, but also the night. If you would inquire, then inquire. Come back yet again.”
- Amos 5:8 He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth — the LORD is His name —
Seasons of Spiritual Desertion
- Song of Solomon 3:1 On my bed at night I sought the one I love; I sought him, but did not find him.
Spiritual Darkness
- 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.
The Darkness First Called
- 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.
The Heavenly Bodies Designed to Separate Day From
- Genesis 1:14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.
The Jews in Affliction Spent, in Prayer
- Psalm 22:2 I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.
The Jews in Affliction Spent, in Sorrow and Humiliation
- Psalm 6:6 I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
- Psalm 30:5 For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.
- Joel 1:13 Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.
The Jews: Forbidden to Allow Malefactors to Hang During
- Deuteronomy 21:23 you must not leave the body on the tree overnight, but you must be sure to bury him that day, because anyone who is hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
The Jews: Forbidden to Keep the Wages of Servants During
- Leviticus 19:13 You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.
The Jews: Often Kept Lamps Burning During
- Proverbs 31:18 She sees that her gain is good, and her lamp is not extinguished at night.
The Moon and Stars Designed to Rule and Give Light By
- Genesis 1:16–18 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. …
- Jeremiah 31:35 Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar — the LORD of Hosts is His name:
Unsuitable for Labour
- 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.
Unsuitable for Travelling
- John 11:10 But if anyone walks at night, he will stumble, because he has no light.”
Wearisome to the Afflicted
- Job 7:3–4 So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed to me. …
Wild Beasts Go Forth in Search of Prey During
- 2 Samuel 21:10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain from heaven poured down on the bodies, she did not allow the birds of the air to rest on …
- Psalm 104:21–22 The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God. …
Worship In
- Psalm 134:1 Come, bless the LORD, all you servants of the LORD who serve by night in the house of the LORD!
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.