When the holy Scriptures speak about the break of day in 2 Samuel 2:32, Judges 19:25 and Job 7:4; is this speaking of sunrise or sunset?
Both are speaking of sunrise. We can know with certainty that the daybreak spoken of is specific to sunrise, because it is clarified that these things occurred all night. The twilight period is known as the fourth watch of the night or the Daybreak Watch. Daybreak itself is synonymous with the sunrise. The Daybreak Watch does not commence, but terminates at daybreak. “Then they took up Asahel and buried him in his father’s tomb, which was in Bethlehem. And Joab and his men went all night, and they came to Hebron at daybreak.” 2 Samuel 2:32 NKJV “But the men would not heed him. So the man took his concubine and brought her out to them.
