Day

How Nave’s arranged it

• A creative periodGenesis 1:5Genesis 1:8Genesis 1:13Genesis 1:19Genesis 1:23Genesis 1:31Genesis 2:2
• Divided into twelve hoursJohn 11:9
• Prophetic2 Peter 3:8Daniel 8:14Daniel 9:24–27Daniel 12:11Daniel 12:12Revelation 11:3Revelation 9:15Revelation 12:6
• Six working days ordainedExodus 20:9Ezekiel 46:1
• Th sixth day of the week called preparation dayMark 15:42John 19:14John 19:31John 19:42
• The first day of the week called the Lord's dayRevelation 1:10
• Day's journey, eighteen or twenty milesExodus 3:181 Kings 19:4Jonah 3:4
• Sabbath day's journey, about two-thousand pacesActs 1:12
• The seventh of the week ordained as a day of rest
• See Sabbath
• Times of adversity called Day of the LordIsaiah 2:12Isaiah 13:6Isaiah 13:9Isaiah 34:8Jeremiah 46:10Lamentations 2:22Ezekiel 30:3Amos 5:18Joel 2:1Obadiah 1:15Zephaniah 1:8Zephaniah 1:18Zephaniah 2:2Zephaniah 2:3Zechariah 14:1
• JUDGMENT

The passages, in Bible order (49)

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.

   “And God called the light day, and the darkness he called night,....

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2. Genesis 1:8

   God called the expanse “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.

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   Although God had already previously made heaven, now he makes the firmament. For he made heaven first, about which he says, "Heaven is my throne." But after that he makes the firmament, that is, the corporeal heaven. For every corporeal object is, without doubt, firm and solid; and it is this that "divides the water which is above heaven from the water which is below heaven."

   “And God called the firmament heaven,....

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3. Genesis 1:13

   And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.

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   “But whose ages, if not the Creator's? For because ages consist of times, and times are made up of days, and months, and years; since also days, and months, and years are measured by suns, and moons, and stars, which He ordained for this purpose (for "they shall be," says He, "for signs of the months and the years"), it clearly follows that the ages belong to the Creator, and that nothing of what was fore-ordained before the ages can be said to be the property of any other being than Him who claims the ages also as His own.

   “And the evening and the morning were the third day.

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4. Genesis 1:19

   And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.

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   “It was evening, and it was morning, the fourth day. This is that memorable evening in which the people of God in Egypt offered a lamb in celebration of Passover; this morning, which first saw the yoke of long servitude being cast off and the …

   “And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. Made by the rotation of the earth on its own axis, in the space of twenty four hours: this according to Capellus was the twenty first of April, and according to Bishop Usher the twenty sixth of October; or, as others, the fourth of September: and thus, as on the fourth day of the creation the sun was made, or appeared, so in the fourth millennium the sun of righteousness arose on our earth.

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5. Genesis 1:23

   And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.

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   “And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. The sun now in the firmament, where it was fixed the day before, having gone round the earth, or the earth about that, in the space of twenty four hours; and according to Capellus this was the twenty second of April; or, as others, the fifth of September; and according to Bishop Usher the twenty seventh of October.

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6. Genesis 1:31

   And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.

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   “From the goods that inhere in the nature of creation—they are indeed very good, even as the Lord said—one can apprehend the supreme and everlasting good. The order of the universe, its arrangement and its beauty—is not a man moved by this to love his Creator, even if he is slow in ability? For if we love our parents because they have produced us, how much more ought we to love the Creator of our parents and our own Creator! Therefore the power of God is a creating power.

   “And God saw everything that he had made,.... Either all that he had made on the several six days of the creation, he took a survey of them, looked over them again, as workmen do when they have finished their work, to see if anything is amiss or wanting; not that anything of this nature can be supposed in the works of God, but such a survey is attributed to him after the manner of men, to show the completeness of his works, and the excellency of them.

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7. Genesis 2:2

   And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.

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   “(Chapter 2, Verse 2) And on the sixth day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. Therefore, we will refute the Jews, who boast of the rest of the Sabbath, because even then, at the beginning, the Sabbath was dissolved, since God works on the Sabbath, completing his work in it, and blessing the day itself: because in it he has completed everything.

   “Further, He says to them, "Your new moons and your Sabbath I cannot endure." Ye perceive how He speaks: Your present Sabbaths are not acceptable to Me, but that is which I have made, [namely this,] when, giving rest to all things, I shall make …

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8. Exodus 3:18

   The elders of Israel will listen to what you say, and you must go with them to the king of Egypt and tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.’

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   “And they shall hearken to thy voice,....

   “They shall hearken to thy voice - This assurance was necessary to encourage him in an enterprise so dangerous and important. Three days’ journey into the wilderness - Evidently intending Mount Sinai, which is reputed to be about three days’ journey, the shortest way, from the land of Goshen. In ancient times, distances were computed by the time required to pass over them.

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9. Exodus 20:9

   Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

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   “He commands imitation of himself, when he says: Six days you shall labor. Concerning this imitation the Apostle says: Be imitators of God, as most beloved children: and in Luke it is said: Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful. Now there are six …

   “Six days shalt thou labour,....

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10. 1 Kings 19:4

    while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

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    “Elijah, whom John the Baptist followed in spirit and virtue and who caused fire to fall from heaven and the waters of the Jordan to part by his prayers, was afraid of Jezebel and fled, and exhausted, he sat down in the wilderness under a tree, and, wearied from walking, he prayed for death, saying, "It is enough for me, Lord, take away my soul, for I am no better than my ancestors." Who can deny that he was a just man?

    “But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness,....

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11. Proverbs 4:18

    The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.

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    “He therefore who keeps away from all bitterness and all the noisome effluvia of the flesh, and raises himself on the aforesaid wings above all low earthly ambitions, or, more than that, above the whole universe itself, will be the man to find that which is alone worth loving, and to become himself as beautiful as the Beauty which he has touched and entered, and to be made bright and luminous himself in the communion of the real Light.

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12. Isaiah 2:12

    For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted— it will be humbled—

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    “(Verse 12) For the day of the Lord of hosts shall come upon all that is proud and lofty, and upon all that is arrogant; and they shall be brought low. These things are connected to the preceding ones. On that day, he says, the Lord alone shall be exalted, that is, on the day of the Lord's vengeance, the lofty and arrogant, and the high and mighty, shall be subjected to captivity and the sword. However, metaphorically speaking, the discourse pertains to the great and the princes: the more they exalt themselves, the more they shall be humbled.

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13. Isaiah 13:6

    Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

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    “(Verse 6, 7.) Howl, for the day of the Lord is near; it will come as destruction from the Lord. Therefore all hands will be feeble, and every man's heart will melt, and be crushed. For the warriors of the Lord are coming to destroy all the earth, howl and repent, for punishment is coming. For the day of the Lord is near, the end of the world, and judgment, or the end of each person's life. For plunder comes from the Lord, which we call destruction, to keep the metaphor, because the warriors had been sent ahead.

    “Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is at hand,....

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14. Isaiah 13:9

    Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming— cruel, with fury and burning anger— to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.

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    “(Verse 9) Behold, the cruel day of the Lord is coming, full of indignation, wrath, and fury, to make the earth a desolation and to crush sinners out of it. For the phrase 'the earth' the Seventy interpreted it as 'the inhabited world', that is, the globe. And for 'cruel' they translated it as 'incurable'. For when the day of judgment or death comes, that will be fulfilled which is read in the sixth psalm: 'For in death, who will give you thanks?' (Ps. VI, 6). For that time is not a time of repentance, but of punishment.

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15. Isaiah 34:8

    For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

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    “(Verses 8 and following) For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, the year of retribution in the judgment of Zion. Its streams will be turned into pitch, and its soil into sulfur; its land will become burning pitch. Night and day it will not be extinguished; its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will pass through it forever. The pelican and the hedgehog will possess it, the owl and the raven will dwell in it.

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16. Jeremiah 46:10

    For that day belongs to the Lord GOD of Hosts, a day of vengeance against His foes. The sword will devour until it is satisfied, until it is quenched with their blood. For the Lord GOD of Hosts will hold a sacrifice in the land of the north by the River Euphrates.

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    “For this is the day of the Lord God of hosts,....

    “For this is the day of the Lord God of hosts - The prophet represents this as a mighty sacrifice, where innumerable victims were slain.

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