Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.

General references

Bible References

Their heat

Jeremiah 25:27
“You shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Drink, be drunk, vomit, fall and rise no more because of the sword which I will send among you.”’
Isaiah 21:4
My mind reels, horror overwhelms me;
The twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling.
Isaiah 22:12
Therefore in that day the Lord God of hosts called you to weeping, to wailing,
To shaving the head and to wearing sackcloth.
Daniel 5:1
Belshazzar the king held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in the presence of the thousand.
Nahum 1:10
Like tangled thorns,
And like those who are drunken with their drink,
They are consumed
As stubble completely withered.
Nahum 3:11
You too will become drunk,
You will be hidden.
You too will search for a refuge from the enemy.

And sleep

Jeremiah 51:57
“I will make her princes and her wise men drunk,
Her governors, her prefects and her mighty men,
That they may sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake up,”
Declares the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
Psalm 13:3
Consider and answer me, O Lord my God;
Enlighten my eyes, or I will sleep the sleep of death,
Psalm 76:5
The stouthearted were plundered,
They sank into sleep;
And none of the warriors could use his hands.

General references

Jeremiah 25:16
They will drink and stagger and go mad because of the sword that I will send among them.”
Daniel 5:30
That same night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain.