Scripture often uses sleep as an image of death, indicating that believers will be awakened to resurrection on the last day.

Psalms 90:3-6

Death described in the imagery of sleep

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The sleep of death for human beings in general

Job 7:21; 14:10-12
Psalms 13:3
Daniel 12:2
Matthew 9:24

pp Mk 5:39

1 Kings 2:10

pp Lk 8:52-53

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Death as resting with the ancestors

Deuteronomy 31:16
2 Samuel 7:12
1 Kings 11:43
1 Kings 14:20,31; 16:6; 22:50

Solomon

2 Kings 14:16; 15:7; 16:20; 20:21

Jehoshaphat

2 Kings 21:18

Hezekiah

Revelation 14:13

Manasseh

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Those who fall asleep in Christ

John 11:11-14
Acts 7:60
1 Corinthians 15:6,17-19
John 5:28-29

Death is not the end of existence

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Job 14:13-15
Psalms 17:15
Isaiah 26:19
Daniel 12:3
Luke 16:22-23
1 Corinthians 15:20,51-57
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
Jeremiah 51:57

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Sleep denoting the finality of judgment for the lost

Psalms 7:3-5; 76:5
Jeremiah 51:39

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5482 punishment
6644 eternal life
9020 death
9210 judgment, God's
9240 last judgment
9310 resurrection
9410 heaven
9510 hell