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13 Bible Verses About Sleeping in Peace

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  • Psalm 3 is headed as written when David fled from Absalom, and verse 7 still asks for deliverance after he says he lay down and slept.
  • Psalm 121:3-4 says the one who watches over Israel “will neither slumber nor sleep.”
  • Leviticus 26:6 makes lying down without fear one of the blessings for obeying the covenant, and Job 11:18-19 is a promise from Zophar, one of the friends the Lord rebukes in Job 42:7.
  • Ecclesiastes 5:12 contrasts the laborer’s sweet sleep with the rich, whose abundance keeps them awake.
  • Jesus slept in the stern during a squall (Mark 4:38), and Peter slept chained between two soldiers the night before Herod’s trial (Acts 12:6).

The Bible treats sleeping in peace as a gift of God’s protection. David says he lay down and slept while fleeing from his son Absalom (Psalm 3:5), and he ends Psalm 4 with “In peace I will lie down and sleep,” for the Lord alone makes him dwell in safety (Psalm 4:8). The law and Proverbs attach sleep without fear to conditions, obeying the covenant in Leviticus 26:6 and keeping wisdom in Proverbs 3:24. In the New Testament both Jesus…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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