TRANSLATIONS
GENESIS 1
Verse 1:2
English Standard Version
The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
Ge 1:4 And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness.
Ge 1:5 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
Ge 1:18 to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
2 Sa 22:12 He made darkness around him his canopy, thick clouds, a gathering of water.
2 Sa 22:29 For you are my lamp, O Lord , and my God lightens my darkness.
Job 10:21 before I go— and I shall not return— to the land of darkness and deep shadow,
Job 12:22 He uncovers the deeps out of darkness and brings deep darkness to light.
Job 15:22 He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is marked for the sword.
Job 15:23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;
Job 15:30 he will not depart from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and by the breath of his mouth he will depart.
Job 17:12 They make night into day: ‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’
GENESIS 1
Easton's Bible Dictionary
Darkness
The plague (the ninth) of darkness in Egypt (Ex. 10:21) is described as darkness “which may be felt.” It covered “all the land of Egypt,” so that “they saw not one another.” It did not extend to the land of Goshen (ver. 23).
When Jesus hung upon the cross (Matt. 27:45; Luke 23:44), from the “sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.”
On Mount Sinai, Moses (Ex. 20:21) “drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.” This was the “thick cloud upon the mount” in which Jehovah was when he spake unto Moses there. The Lord dwelt in the cloud upon the mercy-seat (1 Kings 8:12), the cloud of glory. When the psalmist (Ps. 97:2) describes the inscrutable nature of God’s workings among the sons of men, he says, “Clouds and darkness are round about him.” God dwells in thick darkness.
Darkness (Isa. 13:9, 10; Matt. 24:29) also is a symbol of the judgments that attend on the coming of the Lord. It is a symbol of misery and adversity (Job 18:6; Ps. 107:10; Isa. 8:22; Ezek. 30:18). The “day of darkness” in Joel 2:2, caused by clouds of locusts, is a symbol of the obscurity which overhangs all divine proceedings. “Works of darkness” are impure actions (Eph. 5:11). “Outer darkness” refers to the darkness of the streets in the East, which are never lighted up by any public or private lamps after nightfall, in contrast with the blaze of cheerful light in the house. It is also a symbol of ignorance (Isa. 9:2; 60:2; Matt. 6:23) and of death (Job 10:21; 17:13).
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