Asleep

…but he fell back asleep and dreamed a second time: Seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, came up on one stalk.

That night David and Abishai came to the troops, and Saul was lying there asleep in the inner circle of the camp, with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. And Abner and the troops were lying around him.

So David took the spear and water jug by Saul’s head, and they departed. No one saw them or knew about it, nor did anyone wake up; they all remained asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen on them.

So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I was asleep. She laid him in her bosom and put her dead son at my bosom.

Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.”

For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest

While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.

I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.

“Go away,” He told them. “The girl is not dead, but asleep.” And they laughed at Him.

But while everyone was asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and slipped away.

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

The tombs broke open, and the bodies of many saints who had fallen asleep were raised.

…and instructed them: “You are to say, ‘His disciples came by night and stole Him away while we were asleep.’

He went inside and asked, “Why all this commotion and weeping? The child is not dead, but asleep.”

Then Jesus returned and found them sleeping. “Simon, are you asleep?” He asked. “Were you not able to keep watch for one hour?

As they sailed, He fell asleep, and a windstorm came down on the lake, so that the boat was being swamped, and they were in great danger.

Meanwhile, everyone was weeping and mourning for her. But Jesus said, “Stop weeping; she is not dead but asleep.”

When Jesus rose from prayer and returned to the disciples, He found them asleep, exhausted from sorrow.

After He had said this, He told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him up.”

Falling on his knees, he cried out in a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

For when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep. His body was buried with his fathers and saw decay.

And a certain young man named Eutychus, seated in the window, was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell from the third story and was picked up dead.

That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.

After that, He appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep.

Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

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

For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we also believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him.

By the word of the Lord, we declare to you that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who have fallen asleep.

He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.

“Where is the promise of His coming?” they will ask. “Ever since our fathers fell asleep, everything continues as it has from the beginning of creation.”