Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
And sleep
General references
Bible References
Their heat
Jeremiah 25:27
"Then you shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink, be drunk and vomit, fall and rise no more, because of the sword that I am sending among you.'
Isaiah 21:4
My heart staggers; horror has appalled me; the twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling.
Isaiah 22:12
In that day the Lord GOD of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and wearing sackcloth;
Daniel 5:1
King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine in front of the thousand.
Nahum 1:10
For they are like entangled thorns, like drunkards as they drink; they are consumed like stubble fully dried.
Nahum 3:11
You also will be drunken; you will go into hiding; you will seek a refuge from the enemy.
And sleep
Jeremiah 51:57
I will make drunk her officials and her wise men, her governors, her commanders, and her warriors; they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
Psalm 13:3
Consider and answer me, O LORD my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,
Psalm 76:5
The stouthearted were stripped of their spoil; they sank into sleep; all the men of war were unable to use their hands.
General references
Jeremiah 25:16
They shall drink and stagger and be crazed because of the sword that I am sending among them."
Daniel 5:30
That very night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was killed.