It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.
Parallel translations
- KJV And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
- BSB It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over all the land until the ninth hour.
- ESV It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour,
- NKJV Now it was about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.
- NASB It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the entire land until the ninth hour,
- NLT By this time it was about noon, and darkness fell across the whole land until three o’clock.
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Cross-references · 12
- Matt 27:45Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
- Mark 15:33–34When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
- Amos 8:9It will happen in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
- Acts 2:20The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
- John 19:14Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!”
- Matt 27:52The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;
- Amos 5:18“Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light.
- Mark 15:39When the centurion, who stood by opposite him, saw that he cried out like this and breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”
- Hab 3:8–11Was Yahweh displeased with the rivers? Was your anger against the rivers, or your wrath against the sea, that you rode on your horses, on your chariots of salvation?
- Ps 105:28He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn’t rebel against his words.
- Exod 10:21–23Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.”
- Joel 2:31The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
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