Darkness

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Isaiah 45:7 OT

  I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

• Genesis 1:2 OT

  The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

• Genesis 1:4 OT

  God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.

• Genesis 1:5 OT

  God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.

• Genesis 15:17 OT

  It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.

• John 6:17 NT

  They entered into the boat, and were going over the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them.

• Job 38:19 OT

  “What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

• Job 38:20 OT

  that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?

• Job 38:8 OT

  “Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,

• Job 38:9 OT

  when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,

• Genesis 15:12 OT

  When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.

• Exodus 10:21 OT

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.”

• Deuteronomy 5:22 OT

  Yahweh spoke these words to all your assembly on the mountain out of the middle of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice. He added no more. He wrote them on two stone tablets, and gave them to me.

• Joel 2:2 OT

  A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many…

• Jeremiah 13:16 OT

  Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.

• Matthew 8:12 NT

  but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

• Exodus 10:23 OT

  They didn’t see one another, and nobody rose from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

• John 12:35 NT

  Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

• 1 John 2:11 NT

  But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

• Isaiah 59:10 OT

  We grope for the wall like the blind. Yes, we grope as those who have no eyes. We stumble at noon as if it were twilight. Among those who are strong, we are like dead men.

• Psalms 91:6 OT

  nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.

• Psalms 139:11 OT

  If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me. The light around me will be night,”

• Psalms 139:12 OT

  even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:5 NT

  You are all children of light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness,