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
'And say thou unto them: This is the commandment of the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: Drink and be drunken, spew and fall, that ye never rise: and that through the sword which I will send among you.
Isaiah 21:4
My heart panted, I trembled for fear. The night of my voluptuousness hath he turned against me into fear.
Isaiah 22:12
And at the same time shall the LORD of Hosts call men to weeping, mourning, to baldness and a putting on of sackcloth.
Daniel 5:1
King Belshazzar made a great banquet to his thousand lords: with all these thousand he made great cheer,
Nahum 1:10
For like as the thorns that stick together, and as the dry straw, so shall the drunkards be consumed together, even when they be full.
Nahum 3:11
Even so shalt thou also be drunken, and hide thyself, and seek some help against thine enemy.
And sleep
Jeremiah 51:57
Yea, sayeth the LORD, I will make their princes, their wise men, their chief rulers and all their worthies, drunken: so that they shall sleep an everlasting sleep and never wake. Thus sayeth the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
Psalm 13:3
Consider, and hear me, O LORD my God. Lighten mine eyes, that I sleep not in death,
Psalm 76:5
The proud shall be robbed and sleep their sleep, and all the men whose hands were mighty have found nothing.
General references
Jeremiah 25:16
that when they have drunken thereof, they may be mad, and out of their wits, when the sword cometh that I will send among them.'
Daniel 5:30
The very same night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain,