Time
79 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
43 sections
- All Events of, Predetermined by God
- All God's Purposes Fulfilled in Due Time
- An Appointed Season
- Beginning of
- Computed by Days
- Computed by Hours, After the Captivity
- Computed by Months
- Computed by Weeks
- Computed by Years
- Daniel's Reckoning of Time, and Times, and Half Times
- Division of, Into Watches
- End of
- Epochs of Before the Flood
- Eras from Which, Computed: Accession of Kings
- Eras from Which, Computed: Building of the Temple
- Eras from Which, Computed: Nativity of the Patriarchs During the Patriarchal Age
- Eras from Which, Computed: The Captivity
- Eras from Which, Computed: The Exodus from Egypt
- Eras from Which, Computed: The Jubilee
- Fullness of
- Indicated by a Sun-Dial
- Moments
- One Day is Like One-Thousand Years
- Part of a Period of, Usually Counted As the Whole
- Particular Periods of, Mentioned: The Accepted Time
- Particular Periods of, Mentioned: The Ancient Time
- Particular Periods of, Mentioned: The Evil Time
- Particular Periods of, Mentioned: The Time of Healing
- Particular Periods of, Mentioned: The Time of Need
- Particular Periods of, Mentioned: The Time of Reformation
- Particular Periods of, Mentioned: The Time of Refreshing
- Particular Periods of, Mentioned: The Time of Restitution of all Things
- Particular Periods of, Mentioned: The Time of Temptation
- Particular Periods of, Mentioned: The Time of Trouble
- Particular Periods of, Mentioned: The Time of Visitation
- Shortness of Man's Portion of
- should be Redeemed
- should be Spent in Fear of God
- The Duration of the World
- The Exodus
- The Heavenly Bodies, Appointed As a Means for Computing
- The Measure of the Continuance of Anything
- The Sun-Dial Early Invented for Pointing Out
All Events of, Predetermined by God
- Acts 17:26 From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.
All God's Purposes Fulfilled in Due Time
- Mark 1:15 “The time is fulfilled,” He said, “and the kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe in the gospel!”
- Galatians 4:4 But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
An Appointed Season
- Nehemiah 2:6 Then the king, with the queen seated beside him, asked me, “How long will your journey take, and when will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me, and I set a time.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1 To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
- Ecclesiastes 3:17 I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked, since there is a time for every activity and every deed.”
Beginning of
- Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
- 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.
Computed by Days
- Genesis 8:3 The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.
- Job 1:4 Job’s sons would take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
- Luke 11:3 Give us each day our daily bread.
Computed by Hours, After the Captivity
- Daniel 5:5 At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. As the king watched the hand that was writing,
- 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.
Computed by Months
- Numbers 10:10 And on your joyous occasions, your appointed feasts, and the beginning of each month, you are to blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and peace offerings to serve as a reminder for you before your God. I am the LORD your God.”
- 1 Chronicles 27:1 This is the list of the Israelites— the heads of families, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and their officers who served the king in every matter concerning the divisions on rotating military duty each month …
- Job 3:6 If only darkness had taken that night away! May it not appear among the days of the year; may it never be entered in any of the months.
Computed by Weeks
- Daniel 10:2 In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three full weeks.
- Luke 18:12 I fast twice a week and pay tithes of all that I acquire.’
Computed by Years
- Genesis 15:13 Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
- 2 Samuel 21:1 During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”
- Daniel 9:2 in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years.
Daniel's Reckoning of Time, and Times, and Half Times
- Daniel 7:25 He will speak out against the Most High and oppress the saints of the Most High, intending to change the appointed times and laws; and the saints will be given into his hand for a time, and times, and half a time.
- Daniel 12:7 And the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by Him who lives forever, saying, “It will be for a time, and times, and half a …
Division of, 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.
- 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 …
- Matthew 14:25 During the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went out to them, walking on the sea.
- Mark 6:48 He could see that the disciples were straining to row, because the wind was against them. About the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went out to them, walking on the sea. He intended to pass by them,
End of
- Job 26:10 He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
- Revelation 10:6 And he swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and everything in it, the earth and everything in it, and the sea and everything in it: “There will be no more delay!
Epochs of Before the Flood
- Joshua 24:2 And Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your fathers, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates and worshiped other gods.
Eras from Which, Computed: Accession of Kings
- 1 Kings 6:1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the house of the LORD.
- 1 Kings 15:1 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijam became king of Judah,
- Isaiah 36:1 In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.
- Jeremiah 1:2 The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah,
- Luke 3:1 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, while Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,
Eras from Which, Computed: Building of the Temple
- 1 Kings 9:10 Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon built these two houses, the house of the LORD and the royal palace,
- 2 Chronicles 8:1 Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own palace,
Eras from Which, Computed: Nativity of the Patriarchs During the Patriarchal Age
- Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
- Genesis 8:13 In Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
- Genesis 17:1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.
Eras from Which, Computed: The Captivity
- Ezekiel 1:1 In the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles by the River Kebar, the heavens opened and I saw visions of God.
- Ezekiel 33:21 In the twelfth year of our exile, on the fifth day of the tenth month, a fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and reported, “The city has been taken!”
- Ezekiel 40:1 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month — in the fourteenth year after Jerusalem had been struck down — on that very day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He took me there.
Eras from Which, Computed: The Exodus from Egypt
- Exodus 19:1 In the third month, on the same day of the month that the Israelites had left the land of Egypt, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai.
- Exodus 40:17 So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month of the second year.
- Numbers 9:1 In the first month of the second year after Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai:
- Numbers 33:38 At the LORD’s command, Aaron the priest climbed Mount Hor and died there on the first day of the fifth month, in the fortieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt.
- 1 Kings 6:1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the house of the LORD.
Eras from Which, Computed: The Jubilee
- Leviticus 25:15 You are to buy from your neighbor according to the number of years since the last Jubilee; he is to sell to you according to the number of harvest years remaining.
Fullness of
- Galatians 4:4 But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
- Ephesians 1:10 as a plan for the fullness of time, to bring all things in heaven and on earth together in Christ.
Indicated by a Sun-Dial
- 2 Kings 20:9–11 And Isaiah had replied, “This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised: Would you like the shadow to go forward ten steps, or back ten steps?” …
- Isaiah 38:8 I will make the sun’s shadow that falls on the stairway of Ahaz go back ten steps.’” So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had descended.
Moments
- Exodus 33:5 For the LORD had said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I should go with you for a single moment, I would destroy you. Now take off your jewelry, and I will decide what to do with you.’”
- Luke 4:5 Then the devil led Him up to a high place and showed Him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.
- 1 Corinthians 15:52 in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
One Day is Like One-Thousand Years
- 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.
Part of a Period of, Usually Counted As the Whole
- 1 Samuel 13:1 Saul was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned over Israel forty-two years.
- Esther 4:16 “Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the …
- Esther 5:1 On the third day, Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the palace across from the king’s quarters. The king was sitting on his royal throne in the royal courtroom, facing the entrance.
Particular Periods of, Mentioned: The Accepted Time
- Isaiah 49:8 This is what the LORD says: “In the time of favor I will answer You, and in the day of salvation I will help You; I will keep You and appoint You to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land, to apportion its desolate inheritances,
- 2 Corinthians 6:2 For He says: “In the time of favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the time of favor; now is the day of salvation!
Particular Periods of, Mentioned: The Ancient Time
- Isaiah 45:21 Speak up and present your case— yes, let them take counsel together. Who foretold this long ago? Who announced it from ancient times? Was it not I, the LORD? There is no other God but Me, a righteous God and Savior; there is none but Me.
Particular Periods of, Mentioned: The Evil Time
- Psalm 37:19 In the time of evil they will not be ashamed, and in the days of famine they will be satisfied.
- Ecclesiastes 9:12 For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.
Particular Periods of, Mentioned: The Time of Healing
- Jeremiah 14:19 Have You rejected Judah completely? Do You despise Zion? Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing? We hoped for peace, but no good has come, and for the time of healing, but there was only terror.
Particular Periods of, Mentioned: The Time of Need
- Hebrews 4:16 Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
Particular Periods of, Mentioned: The Time of Reformation
- Hebrews 9:10 They consist only in food and drink and special washings — external regulations imposed until the time of reform.
Particular Periods of, Mentioned: The Time of Refreshing
- Acts 3:19 Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,
Particular Periods of, Mentioned: The Time of Restitution of all Things
- Acts 3:21 Heaven must take Him in until the time comes for the restoration of all things, which God announced long ago through His holy prophets.
Particular Periods of, Mentioned: The Time of Temptation
- Luke 8:13 The seeds on rocky ground are those who hear the word and receive it with joy, but they have no root. They believe for a season, but in the time of testing, they fall away.
Particular Periods of, Mentioned: The Time of Trouble
- Psalm 27:5 For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; He will conceal me under the cover of His tent; He will set me high upon a rock.
- Jeremiah 14:8 O Hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are You like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays but a night?
Particular Periods of, Mentioned: The Time of Visitation
- Jeremiah 46:21 Even the mercenaries among her are like fattened calves. They too will turn back; together they will flee, they will not stand their ground, for the day of calamity is coming upon them — the time of their punishment.
- Jeremiah 50:27 Kill all her young bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come — the time of their punishment.
Shortness of Man's Portion of
- Psalm 89:47 Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!
should be Redeemed
- Ephesians 5:16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
- Colossians 4:5 Act wisely toward outsiders, redeeming the time.
should be Spent in Fear of God
- 1 Peter 1:17 Since you call on a Father who judges each one’s work impartially, conduct yourselves in reverent fear during your stay as foreigners.
The Duration of the World
- Job 22:16 They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.
- Revelation 10:6 And he swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and everything in it, the earth and everything in it, and the sea and everything in it: “There will be no more delay!
The Exodus
- Exodus 19:1 In the third month, on the same day of the month that the Israelites had left the land of Egypt, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai.
- Exodus 40:17 So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month of the second year.
- 1 Kings 6:1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the house of the LORD.
The Heavenly Bodies, Appointed As a Means for Computing
- 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 Measure of the Continuance of Anything
- Judges 18:31 So they set up for themselves Micah’s graven image, and it was there the whole time the house of God was in Shiloh.
The Sun-Dial Early Invented for Pointing Out
- 2 Kings 20:9–11 And Isaiah had replied, “This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised: Would you like the shadow to go forward ten steps, or back ten steps?” …
Related topics
Time in Prophetic Language, Means a Prophetic Year, or 360 Natural
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.