Sleep
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From God
Ps 127:2
2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
Psalms 127:2 -
Of the sluggard (very lazy person)
Prov 6:9, 10
9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
Proverbs 6:910 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
Proverbs 6:10 -
Of Jesus
Matt 8:24; Mark 4:38; Luke 8:23
24 And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.
Matthew 8:2438 And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?
Mark 4:3823 But as they sailed he fell asleep: and there came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filled with water, and were in jeopardy.
Luke 8:23 -
A symbol of death
Job 14:12; Matt 9:24; Mark 5:39; Luke 8:52; John 11:11, 12; 1 Thess 4:14
12 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
Job 14:1224 He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.
Matthew 9:2439 And when he was come in, he saith unto them, Why make ye this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.
Mark 5:3952 And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.
Luke 8:5211 These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
John 11:1112 Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well.
John 11:1214 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
1 Thessalonians 4:14 - See Death
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
