56 Bible Verses about Sleep, Physical

And he lay down and slept under a juniper tree, and, behold, a [heavenly] agent touched him, and said to him, Arise and eat.

Upon this I awoke, and beheld, and my sleep was sweet to me.

His disciples therefore said, Lord, if he has become asleep, he will be healed. But Jesus had spoken about his death, but those men thought that he was speaking about the restfulness of sleep.

It is vain for you to rise up early, to take rest late, to eat the bread of toil, [for] so he gives sleep to his beloved.

My son, let them not depart from thine eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion, so they shall be life to thy soul, and grace to thy neck. Then thou shall walk in thy way securely, and thy foot shall not stumble.read more.
When thou lay down, thou shall not be afraid. Yea, thou shall lay down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

There is no peace, says LORD, to the wicked.

For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who are intoxicated get drunk at night.

I say to you, in that night there will be two in one bed. The one man will be taken, and the other man will be left.

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. Night comes when no man can work.

And this, knowing the time, that the hour is now for us to awake out of sleep. For our salvation is now nearer than when we believed. The night has advanced and the day has approached. Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the weapons of light.

And he touched upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set. And he took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed, and, behold, a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And, behold, the agents of God ascending and descending on it.

And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed. And, behold, he stood by the river.

And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her stronghold, and that distress her, shall be as a dream, a vision of the night. And it shall be as when a hungry man dreams, and, behold, he eats. But he awakes, and his soul is empty. Or as when a thirsty man dreams, and, behold, he drinks. But he awakes, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul has appetite. S

And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams. And his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him.

I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.

In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed. Then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.

And she said to her, Is it a small matter that thou have taken away my husband? And would thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lay with thee tonight for thy son's mandrakes. And Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in to me, for I have surely hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.

And David sent messengers, and took her. And she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness), and she returned to her house.

And Sarai said to Abram, Behold now, LORD has restrained me from bearing. Go in, I pray thee, to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain sons by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

And if a man entices a virgin who is not betrothed, and lays with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

If a man be found laying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman. So shall thou put away the evil from Israel.

Now Saul had a concubine whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. And [Ish-bosheth] said to Abner, Why have thou gone in to my father's concubine?

Marriage is precious in every way, and the undefiled bed, but God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

In peace I will both lay down and sleep, for thou, LORD, alone make me dwell in safety.

And behold, a great tempest developed in the sea, so as for the boat to be covered by the waves, but he was sleeping.

And he himself was in the stern sleeping on the cushion. And they awake him, and say to him, Teacher, does it not concern thee that we perish?

but as they sailed he began to asleep. And a storm of wind came down on the lake, and they were filling up, and were in peril.

And when Herod was about to bring him forth, that night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound by two chains. And guards in front of the door guarded the prison.

He will not allow thy foot to be moved. He who keeps thee will not slumber. Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

I laid down and slept. I awoke, for LORD sustains me. I will not be afraid of ten thousands of the people who have set themselves against me round about.

Though ye lay between two boundaries, [it is as] the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her pinions with yellow gold.

And I will make a covenant of peace with them, and will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land, and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

And LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept. And [God] took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in place of it.

And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram. And, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.

Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a whisper of it. In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

For God speaks once, yea twice, [though man] does not regard it. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumberings upon the bed. Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instructionread more.
that he may withdraw man [from his] purpose, and hide pride from man. He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of heaven broke forth upon the great sea.

And a vision appeared to Paul during the night. A certain Macedonian man was standing, imploring him, and saying, After crossing over into Macedonia, help us.

So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's head, and they got away. And no man saw it, nor knew it, neither did any awake, for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from LORD was fallen upon them.

For LORD has poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes. The prophets, and your heads, the seers, he has covered.

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Say ye, His disciples, having come by night, stole him from us while we slept.

lest having come suddenly, he may find you sleeping.

He who gathers in summer is a wise son. He who sleeps in harvest is a son who causes shame.

Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man to his god. And they cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it to them. But Jonah was gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he lay, and w So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, What do thou mean, O sleeper? Arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we not perish.

And he comes to the disciples, and finds them sleeping. And he says to Peter, So ye could not watch with me one hour.

And he comes and finds them sleeping. And he says to Peter, Simon, Do thou sleep? Could thou not watch one hour?

And after rising up from his prayer, having come to the disciples, he found them sleeping from sorrow. And said to them, Why sleep ye? Having risen, pray that ye may not enter into temptation.

And a certain young man named Eutychus sitting in the window, being carried away by deep sleep (Paul discoursing on more), being carried away by sleep, he fell down below from the third floor, and was taken up dead.

But Peter and those with him were weighed down with sleep, and having become awake, they saw his glory, and the two men who stood with him.

And Delilah said to Samson, Until now thou have mocked me, and told me lies. Tell me with what thou might be bound. And he said to her, If thou weave the seven locks of my head with the web. And she fastened it with the pin, and said to him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web.

My son, if thou have become surety for thy neighbor, if thou have struck thy hands for a stranger, thou are snared with the words of thy mouth, thou are taken with the words of thy mouth. Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, since thou have come into the hand of thy neighbor. Go, humble thyself, and importune thy neighbor.read more.
Do not give sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids. Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

But while the men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares in the midst the wheat, and went away.

How long will thou sleep, O sluggard? When will thou arise out of thy sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep, so thy poverty shall come as a robber, and thy want as an armed man.

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty. Open thine eyes, [and] thou shall be satisfied with bread.

His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They cannot bark, dreaming, laying down, loving to slumber.