Bible Verses About Night
This collection includes 310 passages about Night. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
This collection is a starting point, not a count of every relevant passage in the Bible.
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Reading context: God names darkness Night; foundational literal use of night in creation.
Scripture Passages
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
Reading context: Lights divide day from night, a literal daily cycle.
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Reading context: Lesser light rules the literal night.
And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
Reading context: Lights rule over day and night; literal night in creation order.
For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
Reading context: Forty days and nights of rain; literal nighttime periods, incidental to flood judgment.
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Reading context: Rain for forty days and nights; literal night periods in flood account.
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Reading context: Day and night will not cease; literal night as part of created order.
And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
Reading context: Abram attacks by night; literal nighttime setting, secondary detail.
And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
Reading context: Lot urges angels to tarry all night; literal nighttime, incidental narrative detail.
And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.
Reading context: Sodomites ask about men who came this night; literal nighttime reference.
And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
Reading context: Daughters give Lot wine that night; literal time reference in narrative.
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
Reading context: Uses yesternight and this night literally in the same narrative.
And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
Reading context: They give Lot wine that night also; literal time reference.
But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife.
Reading context: God comes to Abimelech in a dream by night; literal nighttime setting.
And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master.
Reading context: Servant and men tarry all night; literal nighttime, incidental detail.
And the Lord appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham’s sake.
Reading context: The Lord appears to Isaac the same night; literal nighttime setting.
And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
Reading context: Jacob stays all night because the sun set; literal nighttime reference.
And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son’s mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son’s mandrakes.
Reading context: Rachel says Jacob shall lie with Leah to night; KJV spelling for tonight, literal.
And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son’s mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
Reading context: Jacob lies with Leah that night; literal time reference.
And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
Reading context: God comes to Laban in a dream by night; literal nighttime setting.
That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night.
Reading context: Uses night literally for theft occurring by night in Jacob's service to Laban.
Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
Reading context: Uses night literally for frost and sleepless hardship during Jacob's service.
Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.
Reading context: Uses night literally for staying overnight at the covenant meal.
And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;
Reading context: Uses night literally for Jacob lodging overnight before meeting Esau.
So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.
Reading context: Uses night literally for Jacob lodging that night.
And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.
Reading context: Uses night literally for Jacob rising during the night to cross Jabbok.
And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.
Reading context: Uses night literally as the time when the butler and baker each dreamed.
And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
Reading context: Uses night literally as the time when the two prisoners dreamed.
And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
Reading context: Uses night literally in the setting of God's night visions to Israel.
Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
Reading context: Uses night literally in Jacob's poetic blessing about Benjamin dividing spoil.
And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
Reading context: Uses night literally for the east wind that continued all night before locusts came.
And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
Reading context: Uses night literally for the Passover meal eaten that night.
For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord.
Reading context: Central Passover verse: God will pass through Egypt that night in judgment.
And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
Reading context: Uses night literally for Pharaoh and Egypt rising during the night of the plague.
And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the Lord, as ye have said.
Reading context: Uses night literally for Pharaoh summoning Moses and Aaron by night.
It is a night to be much observed unto the Lord for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the Lord to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.
Reading context: Central verse: the Passover night is specially observed to the Lord.
And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:
Reading context: Central verse: the Lord leads Israel by night in a pillar of fire.
He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.
Reading context: Uses night literally for the pillar of fire remaining before the people.
And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.
Reading context: Uses night literally for the cloud giving light by night and the separation all night.
And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Reading context: Uses night literally for the east wind blowing all night at the sea.
And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
Reading context: Literal nights in Moses' forty days and nights on the mount; fits the page.
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- Genesis 1:5
- Genesis 1:14
- Genesis 1:16
- Genesis 1:18
- Genesis 7:4
- Genesis 7:12
- Genesis 8:22
- Genesis 14:15
- Genesis 19:2
- Genesis 19:5
- Genesis 19:33
- Genesis 19:34
- Genesis 19:35
- Genesis 20:3
- Genesis 24:54
- Genesis 26:24
- Genesis 28:11
- Genesis 30:15
- Genesis 30:16
- Genesis 31:24
- Genesis 31:39
- Genesis 31:40
- Genesis 31:54
- Genesis 32:13
- Genesis 32:21
- Genesis 32:22
- Genesis 40:5
- Genesis 41:11
- Genesis 46:2
- Genesis 49:27
- Exodus 10:13
- Exodus 12:8
- Exodus 12:12
- Exodus 12:30
- Exodus 12:31
- Exodus 12:42
- Exodus 13:21
- Exodus 13:22
- Exodus 14:20
- Exodus 14:21
- Exodus 24:18
- Exodus 34:28
- Exodus 40:38
- Leviticus 6:9
- Leviticus 6:20
- Leviticus 8:35
- Leviticus 19:13
- Numbers 9:16
- Numbers 9:21
- Numbers 11:9
- Numbers 11:32
- Numbers 14:1
- Numbers 14:14
- Numbers 22:8
- Numbers 22:19
- Numbers 22:20
- Deuteronomy 1:33
- Deuteronomy 9:9
- Deuteronomy 9:11
- Deuteronomy 9:18
- Deuteronomy 9:25
- Deuteronomy 10:10
- Deuteronomy 16:1
- Deuteronomy 16:4
- Deuteronomy 21:23
- Deuteronomy 23:10
- Deuteronomy 28:66
- Joshua 1:8
- Joshua 2:2
- Joshua 4:3
- Joshua 8:3
- Joshua 8:9
- Joshua 8:13
- Joshua 10:9
- Judges 6:25
- Judges 6:27
- Judges 6:40
- Judges 7:9
- Judges 9:32
- Judges 9:34
- Judges 16:2
- Judges 19:6
- Judges 19:9
- Judges 19:10
- Judges 19:13
- Judges 19:25
- Judges 20:5
- Ruth 1:12
- Ruth 3:2
- Ruth 3:13
- 1 Samuel 14:34
- 1 Samuel 14:36
- 1 Samuel 15:11
- 1 Samuel 15:16
- 1 Samuel 19:10
- 1 Samuel 19:11
- 1 Samuel 19:24
- 1 Samuel 25:16
- 1 Samuel 26:7
- 1 Samuel 28:8
- 1 Samuel 28:20
- 1 Samuel 28:25
- 1 Samuel 30:12
- 1 Samuel 31:12
- 2 Samuel 2:29
- 2 Samuel 2:32
- 2 Samuel 4:7
- 2 Samuel 7:4
- 2 Samuel 12:16
- 2 Samuel 17:1
- 2 Samuel 17:16
- 2 Samuel 19:7
- 2 Samuel 21:10
- 1 Kings 3:5
- 1 Kings 3:19
- 1 Kings 8:29
- 1 Kings 8:59
- 1 Kings 19:8
- 2 Kings 6:14
- 2 Kings 7:12
- 2 Kings 8:21
- 2 Kings 19:35
- 2 Kings 25:4
- 1 Chronicles 9:33
- 1 Chronicles 17:3
- 2 Chronicles 1:7
- 2 Chronicles 6:20
- 2 Chronicles 7:12
- 2 Chronicles 21:9
- 2 Chronicles 35:14
- Nehemiah 1:6
- Nehemiah 2:12
- Nehemiah 2:13
- Nehemiah 2:15
- Nehemiah 4:9
- Nehemiah 4:22
- Nehemiah 6:10
- Nehemiah 9:12
- Nehemiah 9:19
- Esther 4:16
- Esther 6:1
- Job 2:13
- Job 3:3
- Job 3:6
- Job 3:7
- Job 4:13
- Job 5:14
- Job 7:3
- Job 7:4
- Job 17:12
- Job 20:8
- Job 24:14
- Job 26:10
- Job 27:20
- Job 29:19
- Job 30:17
- Job 33:15
- Job 34:25
- Job 35:10
- Job 36:20
- Psalms 1:2
- Psalms 6:6
- Psalms 16:7
- Psalms 17:3
- Psalms 19:2
- Psalms 22:2
- Psalms 30:5
- Psalms 32:4
- Psalms 42:3
- Psalms 42:8
- Psalms 55:10
- Psalms 63:6
- Psalms 74:16
- Psalms 77:2
- Psalms 77:6
- Psalms 78:14
- Psalms 88:1
- Psalms 90:4
- Psalms 91:5
- Psalms 92:2
- Psalms 104:20
- Psalms 105:39
- Psalms 119:55
- Psalms 119:148
- Psalms 121:6
- Psalms 134:1
- Psalms 136:9
- Psalms 139:11
- Psalms 139:12
- Proverbs 7:9
- Proverbs 31:15
- Proverbs 31:18
- Ecclesiastes 2:23
- Ecclesiastes 8:16
- Song of Solomon 1:13
- Song of Solomon 3:1
- Song of Solomon 3:8
- Song of Solomon 5:2
- Isaiah 4:5
- Isaiah 5:11
- Isaiah 15:1
- Isaiah 16:3
- Isaiah 21:4
- Isaiah 21:8
- Isaiah 21:11
- Isaiah 21:12
- Isaiah 26:9
- Isaiah 27:3
- Isaiah 28:19
- Isaiah 29:7
- Isaiah 30:29
- Isaiah 34:10
- Isaiah 38:12
- Isaiah 38:13
- Isaiah 59:10
- Isaiah 60:11
- Isaiah 62:6
- Jeremiah 6:5
- Jeremiah 9:1
- Jeremiah 14:8
- Jeremiah 14:17
- Jeremiah 16:13
- Jeremiah 31:35
- Jeremiah 33:20
- Jeremiah 33:25
- Jeremiah 36:30
- Jeremiah 39:4
- Jeremiah 49:9
- Jeremiah 52:7
- Lamentations 1:2
- Lamentations 2:18
- Lamentations 2:19
- Daniel 2:19
- Daniel 5:30
- Daniel 6:18
- Daniel 7:2
- Daniel 7:7
- Daniel 7:13
- Hosea 4:5
- Hosea 7:6
- Joel 1:13
- Amos 5:8
- Obadiah 1:5
- Jonah 1:17
- Jonah 4:10
- Zechariah 1:8
- Zechariah 14:7
- Matthew 2:14
- Matthew 4:2
- Matthew 12:40
- Matthew 14:25
- Matthew 26:31
- Matthew 26:34
- Matthew 27:64
- Matthew 28:13
- Mark 4:27
- Mark 5:5
- Mark 6:48
- Mark 14:27
- Mark 14:30
- Luke 2:8
- Luke 2:37
- Luke 5:5
- Luke 6:12
- Luke 12:20
- Luke 17:34
- Luke 18:7
- Luke 21:37
- John 3:2
- John 7:50
- John 9:4
- John 11:10
- John 13:30
- John 19:39
- John 21:3
- Acts 5:19
- Acts 9:24
- Acts 9:25
- Acts 12:6
- Acts 16:9
- Acts 16:33
- Acts 17:10
- Acts 18:9
- Acts 20:31
- Acts 23:11
- Acts 23:23
- Acts 23:31
- Acts 26:7
- Acts 27:23
- Acts 27:27
- Romans 13:12
- 1 Corinthians 11:23
- 2 Corinthians 11:25
- 1 Thessalonians 2:9
- 1 Thessalonians 3:10
- 1 Thessalonians 5:2
- 1 Thessalonians 5:5
- 1 Thessalonians 5:7
- 2 Thessalonians 3:8
- 1 Timothy 5:5
- 2 Timothy 1:3
- 2 Peter 3:10
- Revelation 4:8
- Revelation 7:15
- Revelation 8:12
- Revelation 12:10
- Revelation 14:11
- Revelation 20:10
- Revelation 21:25
- Revelation 22:5
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