Bible Dictionary: Night: Originally Divided Into Three Watches

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Lamentations 2:19
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out your heart like water before the face of the LORD: lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
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Judges 7:19
So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came to the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers that were in their hands.
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Exodus 14:24
And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked to the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
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Library

The Night of Miracles on the Lake of Gennesaret
... Jews, whether the night should be divided into three, or (as ... The latter (which would
count the night at twelve ... the range of what God had originally assigned to ...
/.../edersheim/the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xxx the night of.htm

Lii. Concerning Hypocrisy, Worldly Anxiety, Watchfulness, and his ...
... for Oriental weddings take place at night]; 36 and ... [Originally the Jews had three
watches (Lamentations 2 ... henceforth five in one house divided, three against two ...
/.../mcgarvey/the four-fold gospel/lii concerning hypocrisy worldly anxiety.htm

The Nile and Egypt
... is officially celebrated during the "Night of the ... the ground rises, and divided into
irregular compartments ... are not Mediterranean came originally, still come ...
/.../chapter i the nile and egypt.htm

the Legendary History of Egypt
... of the male or female slaves who were originally slaughtered at ... up into Egypt under
cover of night, slew and ... the same judgment as Thot, and divided the kingdom ...
/.../chapter iii -the legendary history of.htm

St. Gregory the Great.
... like silence, startled only by the owl's night cry ... Lombards fell into anarchy, and
were divided into thirty-six ... the stigma of an election originally enforced by ...
/.../allies/the formation of christendom volume vi/chapter v st gregory the.htm

A Plea Regarding Christians by Athenagoras, the Athenian
... If there were originally two or more gods, they would ... Socrates, indeed, was compounded
and divided into parts, for the ... opposes strife to love and night to day ...
/.../richardson/early christian fathers/a plea regarding christians by.htm

Demonstration vi. --Of Monks.
... the Law of his Lord by day and by night, then he ... that no matter to what extent He
is divided amongst many ... Ie when He took a nature which was not originally His. ...
/.../aphrahat/aphrahat select demonstrations/demonstration vi of monks.htm

A Traveler's Note-Book
... and by wisdom,"these are the three ideal types ... Originally he was probably the god
of the sun and ... generation after his death it was divided into two hostile ...
/.../merriam/the chief end of man/iii a travelers note-book.htm

The Desire of the Righteous Granted;
... The world is also divided by other general terms, as by ... for ever for the least lust
to come into my thoughts! ... she, 'have I desired thee in the night; yea, with ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/the desire of the righteous.htm

Another Wonderful Record of 25.
... there were L5 left when they had divided the money ... and snow in the dead hour of night,
he reached ... and he responded, giving the exact sum originally thought of ...
/.../various/the wonders of prayer/another wonderful record of 25 00.htm

Subtopics

Night

Night Hawk

Night Hawk: Forbidden As Food

Night used Figuratively

Night: Belongs to God

Night: Caused by God

Night: Commenced at Sunset

Night: Continued Until Sunrise

Night: Death

Night: Designed for Rest

Night: Divided Into Four Watches by the Romans