'Sleep' in the Bible

Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.

When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.

He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.

Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, "Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn't know it."

This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.

but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place." He said, "I will do as you have said."

for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.

If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;

you shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.

Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where 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 peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died.

She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, "The Philistines are on you, Samson!" He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web.

She made him sleep on 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.

She said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" He awoke out of his sleep, and said, "I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free." But he didn't know that Yahweh had departed from him.

and the lamp of God hadn't yet gone out, and Samuel had laid down [to sleep], in the temple of Yahweh, where the ark of God was;

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

When your days are fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who shall proceed out of your bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

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

On that night, the king couldn't sleep. He commanded the book of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read to the king.

In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed;

In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you, Yahweh alone, make me live in safety. For the Chief Musician, with the flutes. A Psalm by David.

Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;

Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don't reject us forever.

while you sleep among the campfires, the wings of a dove sheathed with silver, her feathers with shining gold.

Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.

At your rebuke, God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast into a deep sleep.

Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.

You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.

I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids;

When you lie down, you will not be afraid. Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.

For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.

How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?

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

When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Don't love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.

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

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

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

None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the belt of their waist be untied, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:

All the kings of the nations, sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.

For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.

On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to 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, says Yahweh.

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 up, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.

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

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.

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

The angel who talked with me came again, and wakened me, as a man who is wakened out of his sleep.

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

Then he came to his disciples, and said to 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 doesn't know how.

He came the third time, and said to them, "Sleep on now, and take your rest. It is enough. The hour has come. Behold, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

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

and said to them, "Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation."

He said these things, and after that, he said to them, "Our friend, Lazarus, has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I may awake him out of sleep."

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

The jailer, 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.

A certain young man named Eutychus sat in the window, weighed down with deep sleep. As Paul spoke still longer, being weighed down by his sleep, he fell down from the third story, and was taken up dead.

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now 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 will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,

Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

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

For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

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