'Asleep' in the Bible
He fell asleep and dreamed a second time; and behold, seven ears of grain came up on a single stalk, plump and good.
But Jael, Heber’s wife, took a tent peg and seized a hammer in her hand, and went secretly to him and drove the peg into his temple, and it went through into the ground; for he was sound asleep and exhausted. So he died.
So David took the spear and the jug of water from beside Saul’s head, and they went away, but no one saw or knew it, nor did any awake, for they were all asleep, because a sound sleep from the Lord had fallen on them.
It came about at noon, that Elijah mocked them and said, “Call out with a loud voice, for he is a god; either he is occupied or gone aside, or is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and needs to be awakened.”
You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep;In the morning they are like grass which sprouts anew.
“I was asleep but my heart was awake.A voice! My beloved was knocking:‘Open to me, my sister, my darling,My dove, my perfect one!For my head is drenched with dew,My locks with the damp of the night.’
And your mouth like the best wine!” “It goes down smoothly for my beloved,Flowing gently through the lips of those who fall asleep.
Then the sailors became afraid and every man cried to his god, and they threw the cargo which was in the ship into the sea to lighten it for them. But Jonah had gone below into the hold of the ship, lain down and fallen sound asleep.
And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being covered with the waves; but Jesus Himself was asleep.
He said, “Leave; for the girl has not died, but is asleep.” And they began laughing at Him.
The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;
and said, “You are to say, ‘His disciples came by night and stole Him away while we were asleep.’
Jesus Himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they *woke Him and *said to Him, “Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?”
And entering in, He *said to them, “Why make a commotion and weep? The child has not died, but is asleep.”
And He *came and *found them sleeping, and *said to Peter, “Simon, are you asleep? Could you not keep watch for one hour?
But as they were sailing along He fell asleep; and a fierce gale of wind descended on the lake, and they began to be swamped and to be in danger.
Now they were all weeping and lamenting for her; but He said, “Stop weeping, for she has not died, but is asleep.”
This He said, and after that He *said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I go, so that I may awaken him out of sleep.”
The disciples then said to Him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”
Then falling on his knees, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them!” Having said this, he fell asleep.
For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep, and was laid among his fathers and underwent decay;
After that He appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep;
Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep.
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope.
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.
who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him.
and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation.”