'Asleep' in the Bible

So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was asleep, he took part of the man's side and closed up the place with flesh.

When the sun went down, Abram fell sound asleep, and great terror overwhelmed him.

He reached a certain place where he decided to camp because the sun had gone down. He took one of the stones and placed it near his head. Then he fell asleep in that place

Then he fell asleep again and had a second dream: There were seven heads of grain growing on one stalk, healthy and good.

Then Jael wife of Heber took a tent peg in one hand and a hammer in the other. She crept up on him, drove the tent peg through his temple into the ground while he was asleep from exhaustion, and he died.

So David and Abishai approached the army at night and found Saul lying asleep in the entrenchment with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. Abner and the army were lying all around him.

So David took the spear and the jug of water by Saul's head, and they got out of there. No one saw them or was aware of their presence or woke up. All of them were asleep, for the Lord had caused a deep sleep to fall on them.

He stretched out and fell asleep under the shrub. All of a sudden an angelic messenger touched him and said, "Get up and eat."

For now I would be lying down and would be quiet, I would be asleep and then at peace

The bravehearted were plundered; they "fell asleep." All the warriors were helpless.

At the sound of your battle cry, O God of Jacob, both rider and horse "fell asleep."

You bring their lives to an end and they "fall asleep." In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up;

The Beloved about Her Lover: I was asleep, but my mind was dreaming. Listen! My lover is knocking at the door! The Lover to His Beloved: "Open for me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one! My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night."

The evergreens also rejoice over your demise, as do the cedars of Lebanon, singing, 'Since you fell asleep, no woodsman comes up to chop us down!'

When their appetites are all stirred up, I will set out a banquet for them. I will make them drunk so that they will pass out, they will fall asleep forever, they will never wake up," says the Lord.

"I will make her officials and wise men drunk, along with her governors, leaders, and warriors. They will fall asleep forever and never wake up," says the King whose name is the Lord who rules over all.

The sailors were so afraid that each cried out to his own god and they flung the ship's cargo overboard to make the ship lighter. Jonah, meanwhile, had gone down into the hold below deck, had lain down, and was sound asleep.

The ship's captain approached him and said, "What are you doing asleep? Get up! Cry out to your god! Perhaps your god might take notice of us so that we might not die!"

And a great storm developed on the sea so that the waves began to swamp the boat. But he was asleep.

he said, "Go away, for the girl is not dead but asleep." And they began making fun of him.

When the bridegroom was delayed a long time, they all became drowsy and fell asleep.

telling them, "You are to say, 'His disciples came at night and stole his body while we were asleep.'

When he entered he said to them, "Why are you distressed and weeping? The child is not dead but asleep."

or else he might find you asleep when he returns suddenly.

and as they sailed he fell asleep. Now a violent windstorm came down on the lake, and the boat started filling up with water, and they were in danger.

Now they were all wailing and mourning for her, but he said, "Stop your weeping; she is not dead but asleep."

After he said this, he added, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. But I am going there to awaken him."

Then the disciples replied, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover."

A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in the window, was sinking into a deep sleep while Paul continued to speak for a long time. Fast asleep, he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead.

Then he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.

Furthermore, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished.

But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

Now we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest who have no hope.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also we believe that God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep as Christians.

For we tell you this by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will surely not go ahead of those who have fallen asleep.

He died for us so that whether we are alert or asleep we will come to life together with him.

And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep.