<p class="bodytext">Joshua and the whole army marched against Ai.<n id="1" /> Joshua selected thirty thousand brave warriors and sent them out at night.

The leaders of Gibeah attacked me and at night surrounded the house where I was staying.<n id="1" /> They wanted to kill me; instead they abused my concubine so badly that she died.

Both night and day they were a protective wall for us the entire time we were with them, while we were tending our flocks.

So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.p>

Jehoram crossed over to Zair with his officers and all his chariots. The Edomites, who had surrounded him, attacked at night and defeated him and his chariot officers.<n id="1" />

You guided them with a pillar of cloud by day and with a pillar of fire by night to illumine for them the path they were to travel.p>

<p class="poetry">In my time of trouble I sought<n id="1" /> the Lord.p> <p class="poetry">I kept my hand raised in prayer throughout the night.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I<n id="3" /> refused to be comforted.p>

<p class="poetry">It will be like a dream, a night vision.p> <p class="poetry">There will be a horde from all the nations that fight against Ariel,p> <p class="poetry">those who attack her and her stronghold and besiege her.p>

<p class="poetry">Night and day it will burn;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">its smoke will ascend continually.p> <p class="poetry">Generation after generation it will be a wastelandp> <p class="poetry">and no one will ever pass through it again.p>

<p class="poetry">My dwelling place<n id="1" /> is removed and taken away<n id="2" /> from mep> <p class="poetry">like a shepherd&#8217;s tent.p> <p class="poetry">I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">from the loom he cuts me off.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">You turn day into night and end my life.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">(But there is one who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion;p> <p class="poetry">he can turn the darkness into morningp> <p class="poetry">and daylight<n id="1" /> into night.p> <p class="poetry">He summons the water of the seasp> <p class="poetry">and pours it out on the earth&#8217;s surface.p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> is his name!p>

<p class="poetry">Therefore night will fall, and you will receive no visions;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">it will grow dark, and you will no longer be able to read the omens.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">The sun will set on these prophets,p> <p class="poetry">and the daylight will turn to darkness over their heads.<n id="3" />p>

It will happen in one day (a day known to the <sc>Lordsc>); not in the day or the night, but in the evening there will be light.<n id="1" />

For in seven days<n id="1" /> I will cause it to rain<n id="2" /> on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the ground every living thing that I have made.&#8221;p>

Pharaoh got up<n id="1" /> in the night,<n id="2" /> along with all his servants and all Egypt, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no house<n id="3" /> in which there was not someone dead.

Pharaoh<n id="1" /> summoned Moses and Aaron in the night and said, &#8220;Get up, get out<n id="2" /> from among my people, both you and the Israelites! Go, serve the <sc>Lordsc> as you have requested!<n id="3" />

So he was there with the <sc>Lordsc> forty days and forty nights;<n id="1" /> he did not eat bread, and he did not drink water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.<n id="2" />p>

then they will tell it to the inhabitants<n id="1" /> of this land. They have heard that you, <sc>Lordsc>, are among this people, that you, <sc>Lord,sc> are seen face to face,<n id="2" /> that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night.

God came to Balaam that night, and said to him, &#8220;If the men have come to call you, get up and go with them; but the word that I will say to you, that you must do.&#8221;

When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the <sc>Lordsc> made with you, I remained there<n id="1" /> forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.