'Sleep' in the Bible

And Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof:

And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.

And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set. And he took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.

And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely Jehovah is in this place. And I knew it not.

Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.

but when I sleep with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying-place. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.

for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? And it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.

And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge;

thou shalt surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before Jehovah thy God.

And Jehovah said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the harlot after the strange gods of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

Then Jael Heber's wife took a tent-pin, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died.

And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web.

And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.

And she said, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free. But he knew not that Jehovah was departed from him.

and the lamp of God was not yet gone out, and Samuel was laid down to sleep , in the temple of Jehovah, where the ark of God was;

So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's head; and they gat them away: and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from Jehovah was fallen upon them.

When thy days are fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, that shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

Otherwise it will come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.

On that night could not the king sleep; and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles, and they were read before the king.

In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men,

So man lieth down and riseth not: Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.

In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falleth upon men, In slumberings upon the bed;

In peace will I both lay me down and sleep; For thou, Jehovah, alone makest me dwell in safety.

Consider and answer me, O Jehovah my God: Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the'sleep of death;

The stouthearted are made a spoil, They have slept their sleep; And none of the men of might have found their hands.

At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, Both chariot and horse are cast into a deep sleep.

Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, Like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

Behold, he that keepeth Israel Will neither slumber nor sleep.

It is vain for you to rise up early, To take rest late, To eat the bread of toil; For'so he giveth unto his beloved sleep.

I will not give sleep to mine eyes, Or slumber to mine eyelids;

When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: Yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

Give not sleep to thine eyes, Nor slumber to thine eyelids;

How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep:

Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; And the idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Love not sleep, let thou come to poverty; Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep;

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes),

None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:

All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory, every one in his own house.

For Jehovah hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the seers, hath he covered.

Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.

When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.

And I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.

And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him.

Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting; neither were instruments of music brought before him: and his sleep fled from him.

Now as he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face toward the ground; but he touched me, and set me upright.

Yet heard I the voice of his words; and when I heard the voice of his words, then was I fallen into a deep sleep on my face, with my face toward the ground.

And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep.

And Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took unto him his wife;

Then cometh he to the disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he knoweth not how.

And he cometh the third time, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: it is enough; the hour is come; behold, the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

Now Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep: but when they were fully awake, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood with him.

and said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.

These things spake he: and after this he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus is fallen asleep; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.

Now Jesus had spoken of his death: but they thought that he spake of taking rest in sleep.

And the jailor, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.

And there sat in the window a certain young man named Eutychus, borne down with deep sleep; and as Paul discoursed yet longer, being borne down by his sleep he fell down from the third story, and was taken up dead.

And this, knowing the season, that already it is time for you to awake out of sleep: for now is salvation nearer to us than when we first believed.

For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.

Behold, I tell you a mystery: We all shall not sleep, but we shall all be changed,

so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.

For they that sleep sleep in the night: and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.

who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.