Dictionary of Bible Themes The absence of or inability to sleep. Scripture suggests that sleeplessness will sometimes result from divine intervention. Scripture also provides examples of deliberate sleeplessness in order to seek God. Ecclesiastes 2:22-23Anxiety and sorrow as causes of sleeplessness See also Proverbs 6:1-4Ecclesiastes 5:12 Jeremiah 45:3 Psalms 127:2 Other causes of sleeplessness Work Job 30:17See also Pain and sickness Job 7:4-5; 33:19Revelation 14:11 Proverbs 4:14-16 See also Evil deeds Isaiah 5:27Psalms 132:4-5 See also Concern for God's cause Isaiah 62:6Luke 2:37; 6:12 Acts 12:12 Genesis 31:40 People who experienced sleeplessness Jacob 1 Samuel 16:14Saul See also 1 Samuel 16:15-23Loss of sleep probably among the troubles of Saul alleviated by David's playing. Esther 6:1Xerxes Job 7:4See also Job Job 7:11-15Daniel 6:18 Darius 2 Corinthians 11:27See also Paul 2 Corinthians 6:5Isaiah 48:22 God deprives sinners of rest pp Heb 3:11 Revelation 14:11pp Heb 4:1-5 See also Restlessness because of judgment on sin Deuteronomy 28:671 Samuel 16:14 Isaiah 21:4; 23:12; 57:20-21 Lamentations 5:5 Daniel 2:1 Sleeplessness allows people to receive messages from God Zechariah 4:1See also 1 Samuel 3:1-10Daniel 2:29 Matthew 27:19 Luke 6:12 A challenge to abandon sleep See also Abandoning actual sleep Matthew 26:36-46Luke 2:37 pp Mk 14:32-42 Revelation 16:15pp Lk 22:47-53 Psalms 57:8See also Abandoning spiritual lethargy Proverbs 6:10Ecclesiastes 5:2 Isaiah 51:9 Psalms 121:3-4 God's watchfulness Isaiah 40:28-31Psalms 4:8 The blessing of sleep See also Leviticus 26:6Psalms 3:5; 127:2 Proverbs 3:24 See also 1409 dream1469 visions 5482 punishment 5533 sleep, physical 5831 depression 5934 restraint 8490 watchfulness 8734 evil 8849 worry |
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