Night

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerningGenesis 1:5Genesis 1:16Genesis 1:18
• Meditations inPsalms 19:2Psalms 77:6Psalms 119:148Psalms 139:11
• Worship inPsalms 134:1
• Jesus prays all nightLuke 6:12
• No night in heavenRevelation 21:25Revelation 22:5
• Divided into watchesExodus 14:24Judges 7:191 Samuel 11:11Nehemiah 12:9Psalms 63:6Psalms 119:148Lamentations 2:19Matthew 14:25Luke 12:38
• Divided into hoursActs 23:23
• Used figurativelyIsaiah 15:1Isaiah 21:11Isaiah 21:12John 9:4Romans 13:121 Thessalonians 5:5

The passages, in Bible order (26)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. 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.

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   “The angels, dominions and powers, although they began to exist at some time, were already in existence when the [visible] world was created.

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2. 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.

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   “10. See again another evident proof of its greatness. Although the heaven may be full of stars without number, the light contributed by them all could not disperse the gloom of night. The sun alone, from the time that it appeared on the horizon, while it was still expected and had not yet risen completely above the earth, dispersed the darkness, outshone the stars, dissolved and diffused the air, which was hitherto thick and condensed over our heads, and produced thus the morning breeze and the dew which in fine weather streams over the earth.

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3. 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.

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   “To shine upon the earth, and to rule over the day and the night, and to divide the light and the darkness. These things can be understood both about the great lights and about the stars with this distinction only, that what is said "to …

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4. 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.

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   “And it came to pass, that in the morning watch,.... The Romans divided the night into four watches, so the Hebrews; though some say into three only.

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5. 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.

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   “So Gideon, and the one hundred men that were with him,....

   “For the same reason was it that when Gideon was about to overcome the Midianites, he commanded three hundred men to take pitchers, and to hold lighted torches inside the pitchers, and trumpets in their right hands. Our predecessors have preserved the explanation received from the apostles, that the pitchers are our bodies, fashioned of clay, which do not know fear if they burn with the fervor of the grace of the Spirit, and bear witness to the passion of the Lord Jesus with a loud confession of the voice.

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6. 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.

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   “12. The people are indeed divided into parts, so that we may strike the serpent Nahash not with a single battle line. And indeed they are divided into three parts, so that the fruit and dignity of sacred abstinence may be shown: because through fasting we are called back to that contemplation of the Holy Trinity which we lose by eating. For hence it is that the fasts of the Law, the Prophets, and the Gospel are commended. For Moses, that he might deserve to receive the Law, fasted twice for a period of forty days (Exod. 34:28).

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7. Nehemiah 12:9

   Bakbukiah and Unni, their associates, stood across from them in the services.

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   “Also Bakbukiah and Unni,.... Two other Levites; the first is mentioned in Neh 11:17, their brethren, were over against them in the watches; the Levites were divided into twenty four wards, and these were placed one against another, 1Ch 23:6.

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8. Psalms 19:2

   Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.

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   “The days and the nights teach those people who desire to be taught what ineffable wisdom, what incomprehensible power God has, who has measured out the intervals of time for them. If there were no one who would determine the space and the intervals for the seasons, but they existed in a thoughtless and unconsidered way by chance, it would happen that the days would not be ordered in equal spaces through the ages and there would be a confusion of things, and likewise the times of the nights would pass by chance or happenstance.

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9. Psalms 63:6

   When I remember You on my bed, I think of You through the watches of the night.

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   “When I remember thee upon my bed,.... Or "beds" (q); seeing he lay in many, as Kimchi observes, being obliged to flee from place to place.

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10. Psalms 77:6

    At night I remembered my song; in my heart I mused, and my spirit pondered:

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    “I meditated by night with my heart, and I dug over my spirit. I was not thinking of my anger, I was not thinking of my enemy; but my whole thought was of God. The night, which is wont to be either for rest or for lust, was for me a thinking upon the virtues. I meditated with my heart, and I dug over my spirit: that is, I dug like a field, that there I might cast the seed of the Lord's teachings.

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11. Psalms 119:148

    My eyes anticipate the watches of night, that I may meditate on Your word.

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    “Mine eyes prevent the night watches,....

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12. Psalms 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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    “Behold now, bless the Lord, all you servants of the Lord. This is the last psalm of the Song of Ascents. The first of the gradual psalms had been: 'To the Lord, when I was in tribulation, I cried, and he heard me.' In the second he had climbed higher: 'I lifted up my eyes to the mountains.' In the third: 'I rejoiced in the things that were said to me.' In the fourth: 'To you I have lifted up my eyes, you who dwell in heaven.'

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13. Psalms 139:11

    If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—

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    “Likewise we Christians who are Christ's servants should truly stand valiantly in wakefulness like "good and faithful servants" who are eager to do honor to their master. Let us gird ourselves in asceticism, inwardly strengthened by austerity, having the lamps of our hearts filled with …

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14. 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!

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    In a certain way, there is a circumcision that is both carnal and spiritual. Concerning the spiritual circumcision, it is said by the apostle Paul, "For we are of the true circumcision, who worship God in spirit, and glory in Christ Jesus, and do not put confidence in the flesh." And further, for the sake of distinguishing the spiritual Israel, it is said of the carnal, "You see Israel according to the flesh," and "You are Gentiles according to the flesh."

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15. Isaiah 21:11

    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?”

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    “(Verse 11, 12.) Oracle concerning Dumah. One calls to me from Seir: 'Watchman, what time of the night? Watchman, what time of the night?' The watchman says: 'Morning comes, and also the night. Seek if you will, inquire if you will, come.' For Dumah they set seventy idols, not over the entire Idumean province, but in a certain region that extends towards the south and is twenty miles distant from the city of Palestine, which is now called Eleutheropolis. Near it are the mountains of Seir, taking their name from Seir, the hairy and shaggy one, that is, Esau.

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16. Isaiah 21:12

    The watchman replies, “Morning has come, but also the night. If you would inquire, then inquire. Come back yet again.”

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    “(Verse 11, 12.) Oracle concerning Dumah. One calls to me from Seir: 'Watchman, what time of the night? Watchman, what time of the night?' The watchman says: 'Morning comes, and also the night. Seek if you will, inquire if you will, come.' For Dumah they set seventy idols, not over the entire Idumean province, but in a certain region that extends towards the south and is twenty miles distant from the city of Palestine, which is now called Eleutheropolis. Near it are the mountains of Seir, taking their name from Seir, the hairy and shaggy one, that is, Esau.

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