Darkness
16 references
- Over the face of the earth Gen. 1:2; Job 38:9; Jer. 4:23
- Called NIGHT Gen. 1:5
- God creates Isa. 45:7
- Miraculous
- In Egypt Exod. 10:21,22; Ps. 105:28
- At Mount Sinai Exod. 20:21; Heb. 12:18
- At the crucifixion Matt. 27:45; Mark 15:33
- FIGURATIVE
- Of judgments Prov. 20:20; Isa. 8:22; 13:10; Jer. 4:28; 13:16; Lam. 3:2; Ezek. 32:7,8; Joel 2:2,10; Amos 4:13; 5:18,20; 8:9; Mic. 7:8; Matt. 24:29; Mark 13:24; Luke 23:45; Rev. 8:12; 9:2
- Outer darkness, Matt. 8:12; 22:13; 25:30
- Power of darkness, Luke 22:53; Eph. 6:12; Col. 1:13; 1 Thess. 5:5; Rev. 16:10
- OF SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS Isa. 9:2; 42:16; 50:10; Matt. 4:16; 6:22,23; 8:12; Luke 1:79; John 1:5; 3:19-21; 8:12; 11:9,10; Acts 26:18; Rom. 1:21; 13:12,13; 1 Cor. 4:5; 2 Cor. 4:6; 6:14; Eph. 5:8,11; 1 Thess. 5:4,5; 1 Pet. 2:9; 1 John 1:5-7; 2:8-11
- See Blindness, Spiritual
- The darkness of the Holy of Holies was symbolical of the dwelling place of Jehovah
- See MOST HOLY PLACE, under the topic [1222]TABERNACLE
- See also the following scriptures EXO 19:16; 2SA 22:10-12; 1KI 8:12; 2CH 6:1; PSA 18:11; 97:2; HEB 12:18
From Nave's Topical Bible (1896). Public domain.