Lexicon :: Strong's H3915 - layil

“Now send someone quickly and tell David, ‘Don’t spend the night at the wilderness ford,[fn] but be sure to cross over the Jordan,[fn] or the king and all the people with him will be devoured.’ ”

“Now get up! Go out and encourage[fn] your soldiers, for I swear by the LORD that if you don’t go out, not a man will remain with you tonight. This will be worse for you than all the trouble that has come to you from your youth until now! ”

Rizpah, Aiah’s daughter, took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on the rock from the beginning of the harvest[fn] until the rain poured down from heaven on the bodies. She kept the birds of the sky from them by day and the wild animals by night.

At Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream at night. God said, “Ask. What should I give you? ”

so that your eyes may watch over this temple night and day,

toward the place where you said,

“My name will be there,”

and so that you may hear the prayer

that your servant prays toward this place.

So he got up, ate, and drank. Then on the strength from that food, he walked forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mountain of God.

he sent horses, chariots, and a massive army there. They went by night and surrounded the city.

So the king got up in the night and said to his servants, “Let me tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are starving, so they have left the camp to hide in the open country, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will take them alive and go into the city.’ ”

So Jehoram crossed over to Zair with all his chariots. Then at night he set out to attack the Edomites who had surrounded him and the chariot commanders, but his troops fled to their tents.

That night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning ​— ​there were all the dead bodies!

Then the city was broken into, and all the warriors fled at night by way of the city gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, even though the Chaldeans surrounded the city. As the king made his way along the route to the Arabah,

The singers, the heads of the Levite families, stayed in the temple chambers and were exempt from other tasks because they were on duty day and night.

But that night the word of God came to Nathan:

That night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, “Ask. What should I give you? ”

so that your eyes watch over this temple

day and night,

toward the place where you said

you would put your name;

and so that you may hear the prayer

your servant prays toward this place.

Then the LORD appeared to Solomon at night and said to him:

I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a temple of sacrifice.

So Jehoram crossed into Edom with his commanders and all his chariots. Then at night he set out to attack the Edomites who had surrounded him and the chariot commanders.

Afterward, they made preparations for themselves and for the priests, since the priests, the descendants of Aaron, were busy offering up burnt offerings and fat until night. So the Levites made preparations for themselves and for the priests, the descendants of Aaron.

let your eyes be open and your ears be attentive to hear your servant’s prayer that I now pray to you day and night for your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins[fn] we have committed against you. Both I and my father’s family have sinned.

I got up at night and took a few men with me. I didn’t tell anyone what my God had laid on my heart to do for Jerusalem. The only animal I took[fn] was the one I was riding.

So we prayed to our God and stationed a guard because of them day and night.

I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, who was restricted to his house. He said:

Let’s meet at the house of God,

inside the temple.

Let’s shut the temple doors

because they’re coming to kill you.

They’re coming to kill you tonight![fn]

You led them with a pillar of cloud by day,

and with a pillar of fire by night,

to illuminate the way they should go.

“Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa and fast for me. Don’t eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my female servants will also fast in the same way. After that, I will go to the king even if it is against the law. If I perish, I perish.”

That night sleep escaped the king, so he ordered the book recording daily events to be brought and read to the king.

Then they sat on the ground with him seven days and nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw that his suffering was very intense.

May the day I was born perish,

and the night that said,

“A boy is conceived.”

Among unsettling thoughts from visions in the night,

when deep sleep comes over men,

They encounter darkness by day,

and they grope at noon

as if it were night.

So I have been made to inherit months of futility,

and troubled nights have been assigned to me.

They turned night into day

and made light seem near in the face of darkness.

He will fly away like a dream and never be found;

he will be chased away like a vision in the night.

The murderer rises at dawn

to kill the poor and needy,

and by night he becomes a thief.

Terrors overtake him like a flood;

a storm wind sweeps him away at night.

Night pierces my bones,

but my gnawing pains never rest.

In a dream, a vision in the night,

when deep sleep comes over people

as they slumber on their beds,

They die suddenly in the middle of the night;

people shudder, then pass away.

Even the mighty are removed without effort.

But no one asks, “Where is God my Maker,

who provides us with songs in the night,

Do not long for the night

when nations will disappear from their places.

Instead, his delight is in the LORD’s instruction,

and he meditates on it day and night.