³ So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night.

² For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

⁶ And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.

⁵⁰ The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,

³⁹ And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

¹⁰ But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.