Morning Light

And God called the Light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the Morning were the first day.

As soon as the Morning was Light, the men were sent away, they and their asses.

And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and spoil them until the Morning Light, and let us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee. Then said the priest, Let us draw near hither unto God.

So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the Morning Light any that pisseth against the wall.

For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the Morning Light any that pisseth against the wall.

• Nabal
• Drunkenness
• Nabal

And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the Morning Light.

Wherefore now rise up early in the Morning with thy master's servants that are come with thee: and as soon as ye be up early in the Morning, and have Light, depart.

Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed over Jordan: by the Morning Light there lacked not one of them that was not gone over Jordan.

And he shall be as the Light of the Morning, when the sun riseth, even a Morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.

• Patriotism

Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the Morning Light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household.

By his neesings a Light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the Morning.

Then shall thy Light break forth as the Morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.

• Practiced
• Rising

Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the Morning is Light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every Morning doth he bring his judgment to Light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.