Nave’s Topical Bible
Darkness
65 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- Over the face of the earth
- Called NIGHT
- God creates
- Miraculous
- In Egypt
- At Mount Sinai
- At the crucifixion
- FIGURATIVE
- Of judgments
Proverbs 20:20; Isaiah 8:22; Isaiah 13:10; Jeremiah 4:28; Jeremiah 13:16; Lamentations 3:2; Ezekiel 32:7-8; Joel 2:2,10; Amos 4:13; Amos 5:18,20; Amos 8:9; Micah 7:8; Matthew 24:29; Mark 13:24; Luke 23:45; Revelation 8:12; Revelation 9:2
- "Outer darkness,"
- "Power of darkness,"
Luke 22:53; Ephesians 6:12; Colossians 1:13; 1 Thessalonians 5:5; Revelation 16:10
- OF SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS
Isaiah 9:2; Isaiah 42:16; Isaiah 50:10; Matthew 4:16; Matthew 6:22-23; Matthew 8:12; Luke 1:79; John 1:5; John 3:19-21; John 8:12; John 11:9-10; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:21; Romans 13:12-13; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 2 Corinthians 4:6; 2 Corinthians 6:14; Ephesians 5:8,11; 1 Thessalonians 5:4-5; 1 Peter 2:9; 1 John 1:5-7; 1 John 2:8-11
The darkness of the Holy of Holies was symbolical of the Dwelling place of Jehovah
- See also the following scriptres
Exodus 19:16; 2 Samuel 22:10-12; 1 Kings 8:12; 2 Chronicles 6:1; Psalms 18:11; Psalms 97:2; Hebrews 12:18
- Of judgments
Bible verses about “Darkness”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Genesis 1:2And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
- Job 38:9When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,
- Jeremiah 4:23I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
- Genesis 1:5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
- Isaiah 45:7I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
- Exodus 10:21And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.
- Exodus 10:22And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:
- Psalms 105:28He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
- Exodus 20:21And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
- Hebrews 12:18For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
- Matthew 27:45Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
- Mark 15:33And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
- Proverbs 20:20Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
- Isaiah 8:22And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
- Isaiah 13:10For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
- Jeremiah 4:28For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
- Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
- Lamentations 3:2He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
- Ezekiel 32:7And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
- Ezekiel 32:8All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God.
- Joel 2:2A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
- Joel 2:10The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
- Amos 4:13For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The Lord, The God of hosts, is his name.
- Amos 5:18Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.
- Amos 5:20Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
- Amos 8:9And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
- Micah 7:8Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me.
- Matthew 24:29Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
- Mark 13:24But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
- Luke 23:45And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
- Revelation 8:12And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
- Revelation 9:2And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
- Matthew 8:12But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- Matthew 22:13Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- Matthew 25:30And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- Luke 22:53When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.
- Ephesians 6:12For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
- Colossians 1:13Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
- 1 Thessalonians 5:5Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
- Revelation 16:10And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,