We have plenty of straw and feed,” she added, “and room for you to spend the night.”

After this, he and the men who were with him ate a meal and stayed there overnight. When they got up in the morning, he said, “Let me leave now so I can return to my master.”

Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat the meal. They ate the meal and spent the night on the mountain.

Jacob stayed there that night. Then he sent as a gift to his brother Esau

So the gifts were sent on ahead of him while he spent that night in the camp.

The entire company of Israelites murmured against Moses and Aaron in the desert.

“You must not offer the blood of my sacrifice with bread containing yeast; the fat of my festal sacrifice must not remain until morning.

“You must not offer the blood of my sacrifice with yeast; the sacrifice from the feast of Passover must not remain until the following morning.

So Joshua made sure they marched the ark of the Lord around the city one time. Then they went back to the camp and spent the night there.

When the man got ready to leave, his father-in-law convinced him to stay another night.

He said to his servant, “Come on, we will go into one of the other towns and spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah.”

They would spend the night in their posts all around God’s sanctuary, for they were assigned to guard it and would open it with the key every morning.

The traders and sellers of all kinds of merchandise spent the night outside Jerusalem once or twice.

For his anger lasts only a brief moment, and his good favor restores one’s life. One may experience sorrow during the night, but joy arrives in the morning.

They wander around looking for something to eat; they refuse to sleep until they are full.

How tragic that the once-faithful city has become a prostitute! She was once a center of justice, fairness resided in her, but now only murderers.

They sit among the tombs and keep watch all night long. They eat pork, and broth from unclean sacrificial meat is in their pans.

“Oh people of Jerusalem, purify your hearts from evil so that you may yet be delivered. How long will you continue to harbor up wicked schemes within you?

You have been the object of Israel’s hopes. You have saved them when they were in trouble. Why have you become like a resident foreigner in the land? Why have you become like a traveler who only stops in to spend the night?

He said, “Here, my lords, please turn aside to your servant’s house. Stay the night and wash your feet. Then you can be on your way early in the morning.” “No,” they replied, “we’ll spend the night in the town square.”