Bible Dictionary: The Feet: Sleep Expressed by Covering

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

1 Samuel 24:3
And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

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How to Make Use of Christ as the Life when the Soul is Dead as to ...
... with her condition, that she rather expressed contentment therewith. ... not loving to
be awakened out of their sleep. ... this, that she had washed her feet and might ...
/.../brown/christ the way the truth and the life/chapter xxiii how to make.htm

The Healing of the Woman - Christ's Personal Appearance - the ...
... The confidence in the result, expressed by the father ... fitting, and descended to His
feet, since it ... also frequently have the expression to sleep' (demakh {hebrew ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xxvi the healing of.htm

The Good Steward
... The hands have no longer power to move; the feet have forgot ... or, as it is still more
strongly expressed in the ... Such a sleep we may call "a near kinsman of death ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 51 the good steward.htm

How one Even of those who are Without May be Brought to Believe ...
... child; and how great a grief is here expressed any one ... shakes off death as if it
were a sleep, and ridding ... bonds of the grave-cloths round his feet and hands. ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/xxv how one even of.htm

Life in Persia.
... so near my old and respectable antagonist, I expressed a wish ... the fever, after which
I had a sleep, which let ... I could not see the road under my horse's feet. ...
/.../rhea/life of henry martyn missionary to india and persia/life in persia.htm

On Faith
... two hundred years ago, it was tolerably expressed by the ... that keepeth Israel doth
neither slumber nor sleep." And certainly ... to be a lantern to our feet, and a ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 122 on faith.htm

Letter xxxix. To Paula.
... prosper?" [797] and "as for me, my feet were almost gone ... 816] Our one longing should
be that expressed by the ... that you sorrow not for them that sleep, even as ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/letter xxxix to paula.htm

The visitation
... spoke these words, her face glowed in her sleep like a ... How can it be expressed by
a poor mortal who is ... with which his sandals were attached to his bare feet. ...
/.../emmerich/the life of the blessed virgin mary/ix the visitation.htm

Scriptures Showing the Sin and Danger of Joining with Wicked and ...
... are the practices and designs of wicked men expressed in their ... avoid and pass by
that way "for they sleep not," &c ... if he had cut off his own feet, and procureth ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/section v scriptures showing the.htm

Notes
... up with thanksgiving when we rise from sleep, when we ... over His shoulders, two sheep
at His feet, a palm ... resurrection of the body is also nobly expressed in the ...
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Subtopics

Feet: Washing of, As an Example, by Jesus

The Feet of Criminals: Bound With Fetters

The Feet of Criminals: Placed in Stocks

The Feet of Enemies often Maimed and Cut off

The Feet of Saints: At Liberty

The Feet of Saints: Established by God

The Feet of Saints: Guided by Christ