New Torrey's Topical Textbook: Rev. R. A. Torrey

Evening, The

• The day originally began with Gen. 1:5
• Divided into two, commencing at 3 o'clock, and sunset Ex. 12:6; Num. 9:3
• Called
  • Even Gen. 19:1; Dt. 28:67
  • Eventide Josh. 8:29; Acts 4:3
  • Cool of the day Gen. 3:8
• Stretches out its shadows Jer. 6:4
• The outgoings of, praise God Ps. 65:8
• Man ceases from labor in Ruth 2:17; Ps. 104:23
• Wild beasts come forth in Ps. 59:6, 14; Jer. 5:6
• A Season for
  • Meditation Gen. 24:63
  • Prayer Ps. 55:17; Mt. 14:15, 23
  • Exercise 2 Sam. 11:2
  • Taking food Mk. 14:17, 18; Lk. 24:29, 30
• Humiliation often continued until Josh. 7:6; Judg. 20:23, 26, 21:2; Ezra 9:4, 5
• Custom of sitting at the gates in Gen. 19:1
• All defiled persons unclean until Lev. 11:24-28, 15:5-7, 17:15; Num. 19:19
• Part of the daily sacrifice offered in Ex. 29:41; Ps. 141:2; Dan. 9:21
• Paschal lamb killed in Ex. 12:6, 18
• The golden candlestick lighted in Ex. 27:21, 30:8
• The sky red in, a token of fair weather Mt. 16:2