'Sleep' in the Bible

So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to come over the man, and he slept. God took one of his ribs and closed the flesh at that place.

As the sun was setting, a deep sleep fell on Abram, and suddenly great terror and darkness descended on him.

Then the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us as is the custom of all the land.

Come, let’s get our father to drink wine so that we can sleep with him and preserve our father’s line.”

The next day the firstborn said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let’s get him to drink wine again tonight so you can go sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.”

When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.”

Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my time is completed. I want to sleep with her.”

Then she said, “Here is my slave Bilhah. Go sleep with her, and she’ll bear children for me so that through her I too can build a family.”

But Leah replied to her, “Isn’t it enough that you have taken my husband? Now you also want to take my son’s mandrakes?”“Well,” Rachel said, “you can sleep with him tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”

There I was—the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and produce offspring for your brother.”

He went over to her and said, “Come, let me sleep with you,” for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law.She said, “What will you give me for sleeping with me?”

After some time his master’s wife looked longingly at Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.”

She grabbed him by his garment and said, “Sleep with me!” But leaving his garment in her hand, he escaped and ran outside.

she called the household servants. “Look,” she said to them, “my husband brought a Hebrew man to make fools of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, and I screamed as loud as I could.

For it is his only covering; it is the clothing for his body. What will he sleep in? And if he cries out to Me, I will listen because I am compassionate.

You are not to sleep with a man as with a woman; it is detestable.

If he is a poor man, you must not sleep in the garment he has given as security.

Be sure to return it to him at sunset. Then he will sleep in it and bless you, and this will be counted as righteousness to you before the Lord your God.

She fastened the braids with a pin and called to him, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” He awoke from his sleep and pulled out the pin, with the loom and the web.

Then she cried, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” When he awoke from his sleep, he said, “I will escape as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the Lord had left him.

So David took the spear and the water jug by Saul’s head, and they went their way. No one saw them, no one knew, and no one woke up; they all remained asleep because a deep sleep from the Lord came over them.

Now Saul had a concubine whose name was Rizpah daughter of Aiah, and Ish-bosheth questioned Abner, “Why did you sleep with my father’s concubine?”

Uriah answered David, “The ark, Israel, and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my master Joab and his soldiers are camping in the open field. How can I enter my house to eat and drink and sleep with my wife? As surely as you live and by your life, I will not do this!”

“This is what the Lord says, ‘I am going to bring disaster on you from your own family: I will take your wives and give them to another before your very eyes, and he will sleep with them publicly.

When she brought them to him to eat, he grabbed her and said, “Come sleep with me, my sister!”

Ahithophel replied to Absalom, “Sleep with your father’s concubines he left to take care of the palace. When all Israel hears that you have become repulsive to your father, everyone with you will be encouraged.”

That night sleep escaped the king, so he ordered the book recording daily events to be brought and read to the king.

Among unsettling thoughts from visions in the night,when deep sleep descends on men,

so man lies down never to rise again.They will not wake up until the heavens are no more;they will not stir from their sleep.

let my own wife grind grain for another man,and let other men sleep with her.

In a dream, a vision in the night,when deep sleep falls on peopleas they slumber on their beds,

I lie down and sleep;I wake again because the Lord sustains me.

I will both lie down and sleep in peace,for You alone, Lord, make me live in safety.

Consider me and answer, Lord my God.Restore brightness to my eyes;otherwise, I will sleep in death.

The brave-hearted have been plundered;they have slipped into their final sleep.None of the warriors was able to lift a hand.

Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep,like a warrior from the effects of wine.

You end their lives; they sleep.They are like grass that grows in the morning—

Indeed, the Protector of Israeldoes not slumber or sleep.

In vain you get up early and stay up late,working hard to have enough food—yes, He gives sleep to the one He loves.

I will not allow my eyes to sleepor my eyelids to slumber

When you lie down, you will not be afraid;you will lie down, and your sleep will be pleasant.

For they can’t sleepunless they have done what is evil;they are robbed of sleepunless they make someone stumble.

Don’t give sleep to your eyesor slumber to your eyelids.

How long will you stay in bed, you slacker?When will you get up from your sleep?

A little sleep, a little slumber,a little folding of the arms to rest,

Laziness induces deep sleep,and a lazy person will go hungry.

The fear of the Lord leads to life;one will sleep at night without danger.

Don’t love sleep, or you will become poor;open your eyes, and you’ll have enough to eat.

a little sleep, a little slumber,a little folding of the arms to rest,

The sleep of the worker is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich permits him no sleep.

When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the activity that is done on the earth (even though one’s eyes do not close in sleep day or night),

W I sleep, but my heart is awake.A sound! My love is knocking!M Open to me, my sister, my darling,my dove, my perfect one.For my head is drenched with dew,my hair with droplets of the night.

For the Lord has poured out on youan overwhelming urge to sleep;He has shut your eyes—the prophets,and covered your heads—the seers.

Israel’s watchmen are blind, all of them,they know nothing;all of them are mute dogs,they cannot bark;they dream, lie down,and love to sleep.

At this I awoke and looked around. My sleep had been most pleasant to me.

“I will make a covenant of peace with them and eliminate dangerous animals in the land, so that they may live securely in the wilderness and sleep in the forest.

In the second year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams that troubled him, and sleep deserted him.

Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting. No diversions were brought to him, and he could not sleep.

While he was speaking to me, I fell into a deep sleep, with my face to the ground. Then he touched me, made me stand up,

I heard the words he said, and when I heard them I fell into a deep sleep, with my face to the ground.

Many of those who sleep in the dustof the earth will awake,some to eternal life,and some to shame and eternal contempt.

The sailors were afraid, and each cried out to his god. They threw the ship’s cargo into the sea to lighten the load. Meanwhile, Jonah had gone down to the lowest part of the vessel and had stretched out and fallen into a deep sleep.

King of Assyria, your shepherds slumber;your officers sleep.Your people are scattered across the mountainswith no one to gather them together.

The angel who was speaking with me then returned and roused me as one awakened out of sleep.

Peter and those with him were in a deep sleep, and when they became fully awake, they saw His glory and the two men who were standing with Him.

Jesus, however, was speaking about his death, but they thought He was speaking about natural sleep.

and a young man named Eutychus was sitting on a window sill and sank into a deep sleep as Paul kept on speaking. When he was overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.

Besides this, knowing the time, it is already the hour for you to wake up from sleep, for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.

So then, we must not sleep, like the rest, but we must stay awake and be serious.

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

They will exploit you in their greed with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced long ago, is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.