Noon

When Joseph saw Benjamin with his brothers, he said to the steward of his house, “Take these men to my house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for they shall dine with me at noon.”

Since the brothers had been told that they were going to eat a meal there, they prepared their gift for Joseph’s arrival at noon.

…and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.

And they took the bull that was given them, prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, shouting, “O Baal, answer us!” But there was no sound, and no one answered as they leaped around the altar they had made.

At noon Elijah began to taunt them, saying, “Shout louder, for he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or occupied, or on a journey. Perhaps he is sleeping and must be awakened!”

They marched out at noon while Ben-hadad and the 32 kings allied with him were in their tents getting drunk.

After the servant had picked him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.

So Ezra read it aloud from daybreak until noon as he faced the square before the Water Gate, in front of the men and women and those who could understand. And all the people listened attentively to the Book of the Law.

They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.

Morning, noon, and night, I cry out in distress, and He hears my voice.

…nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the calamity that destroys at noon.

‘Prepare for battle against her; rise up, let us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the daylight is fading; the evening shadows grow long.

I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.

May that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion. May he hear an outcry in the morning and a battle cry at noon,

And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.

For Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon left in ruins. Ashdod will be driven out at noon, and Ekron will be uprooted.

About noon as I was approaching Damascus, suddenly a bright light from heaven flashed around me.

About noon, O king, as I was on the road, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and my companions.