'Sleeping' in the Bible

Yahweh was standing there beside him, saying, “I am Yahweh, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your offspring the land that you are now sleeping on.

Jacob’s sons returned from the field when they heard about the incident and were deeply grieved and angry. For Shechem had committed an outrage against Israel by raping Jacob’s daughter, and such a thing should not be done.

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?”

While he was sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She hammered the peg into his temple and drove it into the ground, and he died.

Now Eli was very old. He heard about everything his sons were doing to all Israel and how they were sleeping with the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

At noon Elijah mocked them. He said, “Shout loudly, for he’s a god! Maybe he’s thinking it over; maybe he has wandered away; or maybe he’s on the road. Perhaps he’s sleeping and will wake up!”

Wake up, Lord! Why are You sleeping?Get up! Don’t reject us forever!

You’ll be like someone sleeping out at seaor lying down on the top of a ship’s mast.

When Joseph got up from sleeping, he did as the Lord’s angel had commanded him. He married her

Suddenly, a violent storm arose on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves. But He was sleeping.

“Leave,” He said, “because the girl isn’t dead, but sleeping.” And they started laughing at Him.

But while people were sleeping, his enemy came, sowed weeds among the wheat, and left.

Then He came to the disciples and found them sleeping. He asked Peter, “So, couldn’t you stay awake with Me one hour?

And He came again and found them sleeping, because they could not keep their eyes open.

Then He came to the disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Look, the time is near. The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.

and told them, “Say this, ‘His disciples came during the night and stole Him while we were sleeping.’

But He was in the stern, sleeping on the cushion. So they woke Him up and said to Him, “Teacher! Don’t You care that we’re going to die?”

Otherwise, he might come suddenly and find you sleeping.

Then He came and found them sleeping. “Simon, are you sleeping?” He asked Peter. “Couldn’t you stay awake one hour?

And He came again and found them sleeping, because they could not keep their eyes open. They did not know what to say to Him.

Then He came a third time and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough! The time has come. Look, the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.

When He got up from prayer and came to the disciples, He found them sleeping, exhausted from their grief.

“Why are you sleeping?” He asked them. “Get up and pray, so that you won’t enter into temptation.”

On the night before Herod was to bring him out for execution, Peter, bound with two chains, was sleeping between two soldiers, while the sentries in front of the door guarded the prison.