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Since on the seventh day God was finished with the work he had
been doing, he rested on the seventh day from all the work he had
undertaken. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it
he rested from all the work he had done in creation. [GEN 2:2-3]
The LORD appeared to Abraham by the terebinth of Mamre, as he
sat in the entrance of his tent, while the day was growing hot.
Looking up, he saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he
ran from the entrance of the tent to greet them; and bowing to the
ground, he said: "Sir, if I may ask you this favor, please
do not go on past your servant. Let some water be brought, that
you may bathe your feet, and then rest yourselves under the tree.
Now that you have come this close to your servant, let me bring
you a little food, that you may refresh yourselves; and afterward
you may go on your way." "Very well," they replied,
"do as you have said." [GEN 18:1-5]
"Look how numerous the people of the land are already," continued Pharaoh, "and yet you would give them rest from their labor!" That very day Pharaoh gave the taskmasters and foremen of the people this order: "You shall no longer supply the people with straw for their brickmaking as you have previously done. Let them go and gather straw themselves!" [EX
5:5-7]
Morning after morning they gathered it, till each had enough to eat; but when the sun grew hot, the manna melted away. On the sixth day they gathered twice as much food, two omers for each person. When all the leaders of the community came and reported this to Moses, he told them, "That is what the LORD prescribed. Tomorrow is a day of complete rest, the
sabbath, sacred to the LORD. You may either bake or boil the manna, as you please; but whatever is left put away and keep for the morrow." [EX
16:21-23]
Moses then said, "Eat it today, for today is the sabbath
of the LORD. On this day you will not find any of it on the
ground. On the other six days you can gather it, but on the
seventh day, the sabbath, none of it will be there." Still,
on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather it,
although they did not find any. Then the LORD said to Moses,
"How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and laws?
Take note! The LORD has given you the sabbath. That is why on the
sixth day he gives you food for two days. On the seventh day
everyone is to stay home and no one is to go out." After that
the people rested on the seventh day. [EX 16:25-30]
As long as Moses kept his hands raised up, Israel had the better of the fight, but when he let his hands rest, Amalek had the better of the fight. Moses' hands, however, grew tired; so they put a rock in place for him to sit on. Meanwhile Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side and one on the other, so that his hands remained steady till sunset. [EX
17:11-12]
"Remember to keep holy the sabbath day. Six days you may labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD, your God. No work may be done then either by you, or your son or daughter, or your male or female slave, or your beast, or by the alien who lives with you. In six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them; but on the seventh day he rested. That is why the LORD has blessed the sabbath day and made it holy." [EX
20:8-11]
"For six days you may do your work, but on the seventh day
you must rest, that your ox and your ass may also have rest, and
that the son of your maidservant and the alien may be refreshed."
[EX 23:12]
The LORD said to Moses, "You must also tell the
Israelites: Take care to keep my sabbaths, for that is to be the
token between you and me throughout the generations, to show that
it is I, the LORD, who make you holy. Therefore, you must keep the
sabbath as something sacred. Whoever desecrates it shall be put to
death. If anyone does work on that day, he must be rooted out of
his people. Six days there are for doing work, but the seventh day
is the sabbath of complete rest, sacred to the LORD. Anyone who
does work on the sabbath day shall be put to death. So shall the
Israelites observe the sabbath, keeping it throughout their
generations as a perpetual covenant. Between me and the Israelites
it is to be an everlasting token; for in six days the LORD made
the heavens and the earth, but on the seventh day he rested at his
ease." When the LORD had finished speaking to Moses on Mount
Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the commandments, the stone
tablets inscribed by God's own finger. [EX 31:12-18]
Moses said to the LORD, "You, indeed, are telling me to lead this people on; but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, 'You are my intimate friend,' and also, 'You have found favor with me.' Now, if I have found favor with you, do let me know your ways so that, in knowing you, I may continue to find favor with you. Then, too, this nation is, after all, your own people." "I myself," the LORD answered, "will go along, to give you rest." [EX
33:12-14]
"For six days you may work, but on the seventh day you
shall rest; on that day you must rest even during the seasons of
plowing and harvesting." [EX 34:21]
On six days work may be done, but the seventh day shall be
sacred to you as the sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Anyone
who does work on that day shall be put to death. [EX 35:2]
"For six days work may be done; but the seventh day is the
sabbath rest, a day for sacred assembly, on which you shall do no
work. The sabbath shall belong to the LORD wherever you dwell."
[LEV 23:3]
The LORD said to Moses, "Tell the Israelites: On the first day of the seventh month you shall keep a sabbath rest, with a sacred assembly and with the trumpet blasts as a reminder; you shall then do no sort of work, and you shall offer an oblation to the LORD." [LEV
23:23-25]
The LORD said to Moses, "The tenth of this seventh month
is the Day of Atonement, when you shall hold a sacred assembly and
mortify yourselves and offer an oblation to the LORD. On this day
you shall not do any work, because it is the Day of Atonement,
when atonement is made for you before the LORD, your God. Anyone
who does not mortify himself on this day shall be cut off from his
people, and if anyone does any work on this day, I will remove him
from the midst of his people. This is a perpetual statute for you
and your descendants wherever you dwell: you shall do no work, but
shall keep a sabbath of complete rest and mortify yourselves.
Beginning on the evening of the ninth of the month, you shall keep
this sabbath of yours from evening to evening." [LEV 23:26-32]
"On the fifteenth day, then, of the seventh month, when
you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall celebrate
a pilgrim feast of the LORD for a whole week. The first and the
eighth day shall be days of complete rest." [LEV 23:39]
The LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai, "Speak to the
Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land that I am giving
you, let the land, too, keep a sabbath for the LORD. For six years
you may sow your field, and for six years prune your vineyard,
gathering in their produce. But during the seventh year the land
shall have a complete rest, a sabbath for the LORD, when you may
neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard. The aftergrowth
of your harvest you shall not reap, nor shall you pick the grapes
of your untrimmed vines in this year of sabbath rest for the land."
[LEV 25:1-5]
I will establish peace in the land, that you may lie down to
rest without anxiety. I will rid the country of ravenous beasts,
and keep the sword of war from sweeping across your land. [LEV
26:6]
So devastated will I leave the land that your very enemies who
come to live there will stand aghast at the sight of it. You
yourselves I will scatter among the nations at the point of my
drawn sword, leaving your countryside desolate and your cities
deserted. Then shall the land retrieve its lost sabbaths during
all the time it lies waste, while you are in the land of your
enemies; then shall the land have rest and make up for its
sabbaths during all the time that it lies desolate, enjoying the
rest that you would not let it have on the sabbaths when you lived
there. [LEV 26:32-35]
They moved on from the mountain of the LORD, a three days' journey, and the ark of the covenant of the LORD which was to seek out their resting place went the three days' journey with them. And when they set out from camp, the cloud of the LORD was over them by day. Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say,
"Arise, O LORD, that your enemies may be scattered, and those who hate you may flee before you." And when it came to rest, he would say,
"Return, O LORD, you who ride upon the clouds, to the troops of Israel."
[NUM 10:33-36]
'The LORD, your God, who goes before you, will himself fight for you, just as he took your part before your very eyes in Egypt, as well as in the desert, where you saw how the LORD, your God, carried you, as a man carries his child, all along your journey until you arrived at this place.' Despite this, you would not trust the LORD, your God, who journeys before you to find you a resting
place - by day in the cloud, and by night in the fire, to show the way you must go.
[DEUT 1:30-33]
'Take care to keep holy the sabbath day as the LORD, your God,
commanded you. Six days you may labor and do all your work; but
the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD, your God. No work may
be done then, whether by you, or your son or daughter, or your
male or female slave, or your ox or ass or any of your beasts, or
the alien who lives with you. Your male and female slave should
rest as you do. For remember that you too were once slaves in
Egypt, and the LORD, your God, brought you from there with his
strong hand and outstretched arm. That is why the LORD, your God,
has commanded you to observe the sabbath day.' [DEUT 5:12-15]
"These then are the commandments, the
statutes and decrees which the LORD, your God, has ordered that
you be taught to observe in the land into which you are crossing
for conquest, so that you and your son and your grandson may fear
the LORD, your God, and keep, throughout the days of your lives,
all his statutes and commandments which I enjoin on you, and thus
have long life. Hear then, Israel, and be careful to observe them,
that you may grow and prosper the more, in keeping with the
promise of the LORD, the God of your fathers, to give you a land
flowing with milk and honey. Hear, O Israel! The LORD is
our God, the LORD alone! Therefore, you shall love the LORD, your
God, with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all
your strength. Take to heart these words which I enjoin on you
today. Drill them into your children. Speak of them at home and
abroad, whether you are busy or at rest. Bind them at your wrist
as a sign and let them be as a pendant on your forehead. Write
them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates." [DEUT 6:1-9]
"Therefore, take these words of mine into
your heart and soul. Bind them at your wrist as a sign, and let
them be a pendant on your forehead. Teach them to your children,
speaking of them at home and abroad, whether you are busy or at
rest. And write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your
gates, so that, as long as the heavens are above the earth, you
and your children may live on in the land which the LORD swore to
your fathers he would give them. For if you are careful to
observe all these commandments I enjoin on you, loving the LORD,
your God, and following his ways exactly, and holding fast to him,
the LORD will drive all these nations out of your way, and you
will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves."
[DEUT 11:18-23]
"That is not how you are to worship the
LORD, your God. Instead, you shall resort to the place which the
LORD, your God, chooses out of all your tribes and designates as
his dwelling... There, too, before the LORD, your God, you and
your families shall eat and make merry over all your undertakings,
because the LORD, your God, has blessed you. You shall not do as
we are now doing; here, everyone does what seems right to himself,
since you have not yet reached your resting place, the heritage
which the LORD, your God, will give you. But after you have
crossed the Jordan and dwell in the land which the LORD, your God,
is giving you as a heritage, when he has given you rest from all
your enemies round about and you live there in security, then to
the place which the LORD, your God, chooses as the dwelling place
for his name you shall bring all the offerings I command you..." [Taken from DEUT
12:4-11]
Therefore, when the LORD, your God, gives you rest from all
your enemies round about in the land which he is giving you to
occupy as your heritage, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek
from under the heavens. Do not forget! [DEUT 25:19]
The LORD said to Moses, "Soon you will be at rest with
your fathers, and then this people will take to rendering wanton
worship to the strange gods among whom they will live in the land
they are about to enter. They will forsake me and break the
covenant which I have made with them." [DEUT 31:16]
Many years later, after the LORD had given the Israelites rest
from all their enemies round about them, and when Joshua was old
and advanced in years, he summoned all Israel (including their
elders, leaders, judges and officers) and said to them: "I am
old and advanced in years. You have seen all that the LORD, your
God, has done for you against all these nations; for it has been
the LORD, your God, himself who fought for you. Bear in mind that
I have apportioned among your tribes as their heritage the nations
that survive (as well as those I destroyed) between the Jordan and
the Great Sea in the west. The LORD, your God, will drive them out
and dislodge them at your approach, so that you will take
possession of their land as the LORD, your God, promised you.
Therefore strive hard to observe and carry out all that is written
in the book of the law of Moses, not straying from it in any way,
or mingling with these nations while they survive among you. You
must not invoke their gods, or swear by them, or serve them, or
worship them, but you must remain loyal to the LORD, your God, as
you have been to this day." [JOSH 23:1-8]
Because the Israelites had offended the LORD by forgetting
the LORD, their God, and serving the Baals and the Asherahs, the
anger of the LORD flared up against them, and he allowed them to
fall into the power of Cushan-rishathaim, king of Aram Naharaim,
whom they served for eight years. But when the Israelites cried
out to the LORD, he raised up for them a savior, Othniel, son of
Caleb's younger brother Kenaz, who rescued them. The spirit of the
LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel. When he went out to war,
the LORD delivered Cushan-risha-thaim, king of Aram, into his
power, so that he made him subject. The land then was at rest for
forty years, until Othniel, son of Kenaz, died. [JUDG 3:7-11]
Thus was Moab brought under the power of Israel at that time;
and the land had rest for eighty years. [JUDG 3:30]
Gilead, beyond the Jordan, rests; why does Dan spend his time
in ships? Asher, who dwells along the shore, is resting in his
coves. [JUDG 5:17]
May all your enemies perish thus, O LORD! but your friends be
as the sun rising in its might! And the land was at rest for forty
years. [JUDG 5:31]
But Gideon answered them, "I will not rule over you, nor
shall my son rule over you. The LORD must rule over you." Gideon went on to say, "I should like to make a request of
you. Will each of you give me a ring from his booty?" (For
being Ishmaelites, the enemy had gold rings.) "We will gladly
give them," they replied, and spread out a cloak into which
everyone threw a ring from his booty. The gold rings that he
requested weighed seventeen hundred gold shekels, in addition to
the crescents and pendants, the purple garments worn by the kings
of Midian, and the trappings that were on the necks of their
camels. Gideon made an ephod out of the gold and placed it in his
city Ophrah. However, all Israel paid idolatrous homage to it
there, and caused the ruin of Gideon and his family. Thus was
Midian brought into subjection by the Israelites; no longer did
they hold their heads high. And the land had rest for forty years,
during the lifetime of Gideon.
[JUDG 8:23-28]
Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go back, each of you, to your mother's house! May the LORD be kind to you as you were to the departed and to me! May the LORD grant each of you a husband and a home in which you will find rest." She kissed them good-bye, but they wept with loud sobs, and told her they would return with her to her
people. [RUTH
1:8-10]
Boaz asked the overseer of his harvesters, "Whose girl is this?" The overseer of the harvesters answered, "She is the Moabite girl who returned from the plateau of Moab with Naomi. She asked leave to gather the gleanings into sheaves after the harvesters; and ever since she came this morning she has remained here until now, with scarcely a moment's rest."
[RUTH 2:5-7]
Ruth went home to her mother-in-law, who asked, "How have you fared, my daughter?" So she told her all the man had done for her,
and concluded, "He gave me these six measures of barley because he did not wish me to come back to my mother-in-law
empty handed!" Naomi then said, "Wait here, my daughter, until you learn what happens, for the man will not rest, but will settle the matter today."
[RUTH 3:16-18]
From the day the ark came to rest in Kiriath-jearim a long
time-twenty years-elapsed, and the whole Israelite population
turned to the LORD. [1SAM 7:2]
When King David was settled in his palace, and the LORD had given him rest from his enemies on every side, he said to Nathan the prophet, "Here I am living in a house of cedar, while the ark of God dwells in a tent!"
[2SAM 7:1-2]
"Now then, speak thus to my servant David, 'The LORD of
hosts has this to say: It was I who took you from the pasture and
from the care of the flock to be commander of my people Israel. I
have been with you wherever you went, and I have destroyed all
your enemies before you. And I will make you famous like the great
ones of the earth. I will fix a place for my people Israel; I will
plant them so that they may dwell in their place without further
disturbance. Neither shall the wicked continue to afflict them as
they did of old, since the time I first appointed judges over my
people Israel. I will give you rest from all your enemies. The
LORD also reveals to you that he will establish a house for you.
And when your time comes and you rest with your ancestors, I will
raise up your heir after you, sprung from your loins, and I will
make his kingdom firm. It is he who shall build a house for my
name. And I will make his royal throne firm forever. I will be a
father to him, and he shall be a son to me. And if he does wrong,
I will correct him with the rod of men and with human
chastisements; but I will not withdraw my favor from him as I
withdrew it from your predecessor Saul, whom I removed from my
presence. Your house and your kingdom shall endure forever before
me; your throne shall stand firm forever.'" Nathan reported
all these words and this entire vision to David. [2SAM 7:8-17]
"Blessed be the LORD who has given rest to his people
Israel, just as he promised. Not a single word has gone
unfulfilled of the entire generous promise he made through his
servant Moses." [1KGS 8:56]
Then he called for his son Solomon and commanded him to build a
house for the LORD, the God of Israel. David said to Solomon:
"My son, it was my purpose to build a house myself for the
honor of the LORD, my God. But this word of the LORD came to me:
'You have shed much blood, and you have waged great wars. You may
not build a house in my honor, because you have shed too much
blood upon the earth in my sight. However, a son is to be born
to you. He will be a peaceful man, and I will give him rest from
all his enemies on every side. For Solomon shall be his name, and
in his time I will bestow peace and tranquility on Israel. It is
he who shall build a house in my honor; he shall be a son to me,
and I will be a father to him, and I will establish the throne of
his kingship over Israel forever.' Now, my son, the LORD be with
you, and may you succeed in building the house of the LORD your God, as he has said you shall."
[1CHRON 22:6-11]
David also commanded all of Israel's leaders to help his son Solomon: "Is not the LORD your God with you? Has he not given you rest on every side? Indeed, he has delivered the occupants of the land into my power, and the land is subdued before the LORD and his people. Therefore, devote your hearts and souls to seeking the LORD your God. Proceed to build the sanctuary of the LORD God, that the ark of the covenant of the LORD and God's sacred vessels may be brought into the house built in honor of the LORD."
[1CHRON 22:17-19]
David said: "The LORD, the God of Israel, has given rest
to his people, and has taken up his dwelling in Jerusalem." [1CHRON
23:25]
And now, "Advance, LORD God, to your resting place, you
and the ark of your majesty. May your priests, LORD God, be
clothed with salvation, may your faithful ones rejoice in good
things." [2CHRON 6:41]
He said to Judah: "Let us build these cities and surround
them with walls, towers, gates and bars. The land is still ours,
for we have sought the LORD, our God; we sought him, and he has
given us rest on every side." So they built and prospered.
[2CHRON 14:6]
They entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the LORD, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. They swore to the LORD with a loud voice, with shouting and with trumpets and horns. All Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they had sworn with their whole heart and sought him with complete desire, so that he was present to them. And the LORD gave them rest on every side.
[2CHRON 15:12-15]
Then all the men of Judah and Jerusalem, with Jehoshaphat at their head, turned back toward Jerusalem celebrating the joyful victory the LORD had given them over their enemies. They came to Jerusalem, to the house of the LORD, with harps, lyres and trumpets.
And the fear of God came upon all the kingdoms of the surrounding lands when they heard how the LORD had fought against the enemies of Israel. Thereafter Jehoshaphat's kingdom enjoyed peace, for his God gave him rest on every side.
[2CHRON 20:27-30]
Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem
from the hand of Sennacherib, king of Assyria, as from every other
power; he gave them rest on every side. [2CHRON 32:22]
All the utensils of the house of God, the large and the small,
and the treasures of the LORD'S house and of the king and his
princes, all these he brought to Babylon. They burnt the house of
God, tore down the walls of Jerusalem, set all its palaces afire,
and destroyed all its precious objects. Those who escaped the
sword he carried captive to Babylon, where they became his and his
sons' servants until the kingdom of the Persians came to power.
All this was to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken by Jeremiah:
"Until the land has retrieved its lost sabbaths, during all
the time it lies waste it shall have rest while seventy years are
fulfilled." [2CHRON 36:18-21]
We set out for Jerusalem from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month. The hand of our God remained upon us, and he protected us from enemies and bandits along the way. Thus we arrived in Jerusalem, where we first rested for three days. [EZRA
8:31-32]
On the fourteenth of the month they rested, and made it a day of feasting and rejoicing. (The Jews in Susa, however, mustered on the thirteenth and fourteenth of the month. But on the fifteenth they rested, and made it a day of feasting and rejoicing.) That is why the rural Jews, who dwell in villages, celebrate the fourteenth of the month of Adar as a day of rejoicing and feasting, a holiday on which they send gifts of food to one another.
[Taken from ESTH 9:17-19]
Mordecai recorded these events and sent letters to all the Jews, both near and far, in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus. He ordered them to celebrate every year both the fourteenth and the fifteenth of the month of Adar as the days on which the Jews obtained rest from their enemies and as the month which was turned for them from sorrow into joy, from mourning into festivity. They were to observe these days with feasting and gladness, sending food to one another and gifts to the poor.
[ESTH 9:20-22]
The land was at rest all the days of Simon, who sought the good
of his nation. His people were delighted with his power and his
magnificence throughout his reign. [1MACC 14:4]
They all therefore praised the ways of the Lord, the just judge
who brings to light the things that are hidden. Turning to
supplication, they prayed that the sinful deed might be fully
blotted out. The noble Judas warned the soldiers to keep
themselves free from sin, for they had seen with their own eyes
what had happened because of the sin of those who had fallen. He
then took up a collection among all his soldiers, amounting to two
thousand silver drachmas, which he sent to Jerusalem to provide
for an expiatory sacrifice. In doing this he acted in a very
excellent and noble way, inasmuch as he had the resurrection of
the dead in view; for if he were not expecting the fallen to rise
again, it would have been useless and foolish to pray for them in
death. But if he did this with a view to the splendid reward that
awaits those who had gone to rest in godliness, it was a holy and
pious thought. Thus he made atonement for the dead that they might
be freed from this sin. [2MACC 12:41-46]
When Nicanor learned that Judas and his companions were in the
territory of Samaria, he decided to attack them in all safety on
the day of rest. [2MACC 15:1]
I have no peace nor ease; I have no rest, for trouble comes!
[JOB 3:26]
O earth, cover not my blood, nor let my outcry come to rest!
[JOB 16:18]
My frame takes no rest by night; my inward parts seethe and
will not be stilled. [JOB 30:17]
Fear and trembling overwhelm me; shuddering sweeps over me. I say, "If only I had wings like a dove that I might fly away and find rest."
[PS 55:6-7]
My soul rests in God alone, from whom comes my salvation. [PS
62:2]
My soul, be at rest in God alone, from whom comes my hope.
[PS 62:6]
Happy those whom you guide, LORD, whom you teach by your instruction. You give them rest from evil days, while a pit is being dug for the wicked. You, LORD, will not forsake your people, nor abandon your very own. Judgment shall again be just, and all the upright of heart will follow it. [PS
94:12-15]
There your ancestors tested me; they tried me though they had seen my works. Forty years I loathed that generation; I said: "This people's heart goes astray; they do not know my ways." Therefore I swore in my anger: "They shall never enter my rest." [PS
95:9-11]
Return, my soul, to your rest; the LORD has been good to you.
[PS 116:7]
It is vain for you to rise early and put off your rest at
night, To eat bread earned by hard toil - all this God gives to
his beloved in sleep. [PS 127:2]
LORD, remember David and all his anxious care; How he swore an oath to the LORD, vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob: "I will not enter the house where I live, nor lie on the couch where I sleep; I will give my eyes no sleep, my eyelids no rest, Till I find a home for the LORD, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob." [PS
132:1-5]
"Arise, LORD, come to your resting place, you and your
majestic ark." [PS 132:8]
Yes, the LORD has chosen Zion, desired it for a dwelling: "This is my resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I desire it." [PS
132:13-14]
My travels and my rest you mark; with all my ways you are
familiar. [PS 139:3]
The LORD by wisdom founded the earth, established the heavens
by understanding; By his knowledge the depths break open, and
the clouds drop down dew. My son, let not these slip out of your
sight: keep advice and counsel in view; So will they be life to
your soul, and an adornment for your neck. Then you may securely
go your way; your foot will never stumble; When you lie down, you
need not be afraid, when you rest, your sleep will be sweet. [PROV
3:19-24]
The path of the wicked enter not, walk not on the way of evil men;
Shun it, cross it not, turn aside from it, and pass on. For they cannot rest unless they have done evil; to have made no one stumble steals away their sleep.
[PROV 4:14-166]
Go to the ant, O sluggard, study her ways and learn wisdom; For though she has no chief, no commander or ruler, She procures her food in the summer, stores up her provisions in the harvest. How long, O sluggard, will you rest? when will you rise from your sleep?
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the arms to
rest - Then will poverty come upon you like a highway man, and want like an armed man.
[PROV 6:6-11]
I passed by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man without sense; And behold! it was all overgrown with thistles; its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall broken down.
And as I gazed at it, I reflected; I saw and learned the lesson: A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the arms to
rest - Then will poverty come upon you like a highwayman, and want like an armed man.
[PROV 24:30-34]
I recognized that man is unable to find out all God's work that
is done under the sun, even though neither by day nor by night do
his eyes find rest in sleep. However much man toils in searching,
he does not find it out; and even if the wise man says that he
knows, he is unable to find it out. [ECCL 8:17]
Tell me, you whom my heart loves, where you pasture your
flock, where you give them rest at midday, Lest I be found
wandering after the flocks of your companions. [SONG 1:7]
But the just man, though he die early, shall be at rest.
[WISDOM 4:7]
My son, from your youth embrace discipline; thus will you find wisdom with graying hair. With all your soul draw close to her; with all your strength keep her ways. Search her out, discover her; seek her and you will find her. Then when you have her, do not let her
go; Thus will you afterward find rest in her, and she will become your joy.
[SIRACH 6:18,27-29]
A man may become rich through a miser's life, and this is his allotted reward: When he says: "I have found rest, now I will feast on my possessions,"
He does not know how long it will be till he dies and leaves them to others.
[SIRACH 11:18-19]
A man through want may be unable to sin, yet in this
tranquility he cannot rest. [SIRACH 20:20]
Weep but a little over the dead man, for he is at rest; but
worse than death is the life of a fool. [SIRACH 22:10]
Speak but seldom with the stupid man, be not the companion of a brute; Beware of him lest you have trouble and be spattered when he shakes himself;
Turn away from him and you will find rest and not be wearied by his lack of sense.
[SIRACH 22:12-13]
Wisdom sings her own praises, before her own people she
proclaims her glory; In the assembly of the Most High she opens
her mouth, in the presence of his hosts she declares her worth:
"From the mouth of the Most High I came forth, and mistlike
covered the earth. In the highest heavens did I dwell, my throne
on a pillar of cloud. The vault of heaven I compassed alone,
through the deep abyss I wandered. Over waves of the sea, over all
the land, over every people and nation I held sway. Among all
these I sought a resting place; in whose inheritance should I
abide?" Then the Creator of all gave me his command, and he
who formed me chose the spot for my tent, Saying, 'In Jacob make
your dwelling, in Israel your inheritance.' Before all ages, in the beginning, he created me, and through all ages I shall not cease to be. In the holy tent I ministered before him, and in Zion I fixed my abode. Thus in the chosen city he has given me rest, in Jerusalem is my domain.
[SIRACH 24:1-11]
A meddlesome tongue can drive virtuous women from their homes and rob them of the fruit of their toil; Whoever heeds it has no rest, nor can he dwell in peace.
[SIRACH 28:15-16]
Keeping watch over riches wastes the flesh, and the care of
wealth drives away rest. Concern for one's livelihood banishes
slumber; more than a serious illness it disturbs repose. The rich
man labors to pile up wealth, and his only rest is wanton
pleasure; The poor man toils for a meager subsistence, and if ever
he rests, he finds himself in want. The lover of gold will not be
free from sin, for he who pursues wealth is led astray by it. Many
have been ensnared by gold, though destruction lay before their
eyes; It is a stumbling block to those who are avid for it, a
snare for every fool. [SIRACH 31:1-7]
The prayer of the lowly pierces the clouds; it does not rest till it reaches its goal, Nor will it withdraw till the Most High responds, judges justly and affirms the right.
[SIRACH 35:17-18]
A great anxiety has God allotted, and a heavy yoke, to the
sons of men; From the day one leaves his mother's womb to the day
he returns to the mother of all the living, His thoughts, the fear
in his heart, and his troubled forebodings till the day he dies -
Whether he sits on a lofty throne or grovels in dust and ashes,
Whether he bears a splendid crown or is wrapped in the coarsest of
cloaks - Are of wrath and envy, trouble and dread, terror of
death, fury and strife. Even when he lies on his bed to rest, his
cares at night disturb his sleep. So short is his rest it seems
like none, till in his dreams he struggles as he did by day,
Terrified by what his mind's eye sees, like a fugitive being
pursued; As he reaches safety, he wakes up astonished that there
was nothing to fear. So it is with all flesh, with man and with
beast, but for sinners seven times more. [SIRACH 40:1-8]
A daughter is a treasure that keeps her father wakeful, and
worry over her drives away rest [Taken from SIRACH
42:9]
Then the wolf shall be a guest of the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid;
The calf and the young lion shall browse together, with a little child to guide them. The cow and the bear shall be neighbors, together their young shall rest; the lion shall eat hay like the ox. The baby shall play by the cobra's den, and the child lay his hand on the adder's lair. There shall be no harm or ruin on all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be filled with knowledge of the LORD, as water covers the sea.
[ISA 11:6-9]
The LORD has broken the rod of the wicked, the staff of the
tyrants That struck the peoples in wrath relentless blows; That
beat down the nations in anger, with oppression unchecked. The
whole earth rests peacefully, song breaks forth; The very
cypresses rejoice over you, and the cedars of Lebanon: "Now
that you are laid to rest, there will be none to cut us
down." [ISA 14:5-8]
You shall exult no more, he says, you who are now oppressed,
virgin daughter Sidon. Arise, pass over to the Kittim, even there
you shall find no rest. [ISA 23:12]
Justice will bring about peace; right will produce calm and security. My people will live in peaceful country, in secure dwellings and quiet resting places. [ISA
32:17-18]
The just man perishes, but no one takes it to heart; Devout men are swept away, with no one giving it a thought.
Though he is taken away from the presence of evil, the just man enters into peace;
There is rest on his couch for the sincere, straightforward man. [ISA
57:1-2]
Upon your walls, O Jerusalem, I have stationed watchmen; Never,
by day or by night, shall they be silent. O you who are to remind
the LORD, take no rest And give no rest to him, until he re-establishes Jerusalem And
makes of it the pride of the earth. [ISA 62:6-7]
Sharon shall be a pasture for the flocks and the valley of
Achor a resting place for the cattle of my people who have sought
me. [ISA 65:10]
Thus says the LORD: The heavens are my throne, the earth is my footstool.
What kind of house can you build for me; what is to be my resting place? My hand made all these things when all of them came to be, says the LORD.
This is the one whom I approve: the lowly and afflicted man who trembles at my
word. [ISA
66:1-2]
Thus says the LORD: Stand beside the earliest roads, ask the
pathways of old Which is the way to good, and walk it; thus you
will find rest for your souls. But they said, "We will not
walk it." [JER 6:16]
Speak to them this word: Let my eyes stream with tears day and
night, without rest, Over the great destruction which overwhelms
the virgin daughter of my people, over her incurable wound. [JER
14:17]
But you, my servant Jacob, fear not, says the LORD, be not dismayed, O Israel!
Behold, I will deliver you from the far-off land, your descendants, from their land of exile;
Jacob shall again find rest, shall be tranquil and undisturbed, for I am with you, says the LORD, to deliver you.
I will make an end of all the nations among which I have scattered you; but of you I will not make an end.
I will chastise you as you deserve, I will not let you go unpunished.
[JER 30:10-11]
At that time, says the LORD, I will be the God of all the tribes of Israel, and they shall be my people. Thus says the LORD:
The people that escaped the sword have found favor in the desert.
As Israel comes forward to be given his rest, the LORD appears to him from afar:
With age-old love I have loved you; so I have kept my mercy toward
you. [JER
31:1-3]
But you, my servant Jacob, fear not; be not dismayed, O Israel.
Behold, I will deliver you from the far-off land, your
descendants, from their land of exile. Jacob shall again find
rest, shall be tranquil and undisturbed. [JER 46:27]
Alas, sword of the LORD! how long till you find rest? Return
into your scabbard; stop, be still! How can it find rest when the LORD has commanded it? Against
Ashkelon and the seashore he has appointed it. [JER 47:6-7]
Moab has been tranquil from his youth, has rested upon his lees;
He was not poured from one flask to another, he went not into exile.
Thus he kept his taste, and his scent was not lost. Hence, the days shall come, says the LORD, when I will send him coopers to turn him over; they shall empty his flasks and break his jars. Chemosh shall disappoint Moab, as Israel was disappointed by Bethel in which they trusted.
[JER 48:11-13]
Hamath and Arpad are covered with shame, they have heard bad
news; Worried, they toss like the sea which cannot rest. [JER
49:23]
Strong is their avenger, whose name is LORD of hosts; He will
defend their cause with success, and give rest to the earth, but
unrest to those who live in Babylon. [JER 50:34]
Judah has fled into exile from oppression and cruel slavery;
Yet where she lives among the nations she finds no place to rest:
All her persecutors come upon her where she is narrowly confined.
[LAM 1:3]
On our necks is the yoke of those who drive us; we are worn
out, but allowed no rest. [LAM 5:5]
I myself will pasture my sheep; I myself will give them rest,
says the Lord GOD. [EZEK 34:15]
In the second year of his reign, King Nebuchadnezzar had a
dream which left his spirit no rest and robbed him of his sleep.
[DAN 2:1]
"Go, take your rest, you shall rise for your reward at the end
of days." [DAN 12:13]
I will make a covenant for them on that day, with the beasts of
the field, With the birds of the air, and with the things that
crawl on the ground. Bow and sword and war I will destroy from the
land, and I will let them take their rest in security. [HOSEA
2:20]
Alas! how your shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria, your
nobles have gone to rest; Your people are scattered upon the
mountains, with none to gather them. [NAHUM 3:18]
In the second year of Darius, on the twenty-fourth day of Shebat, the eleventh month, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah, son of Berechiah, son of Iddo, in the following way: I had a vision during the night. There appeared the driver of a red horse, standing among myrtle trees in a shady place, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses. Then I asked, "What are these, my lord?"; and the angel who spoke with me answered me, "I will show you what these are." The man who was standing among the myrtle trees spoke up and said, "These are they whom the LORD has sent to patrol the earth." And they answered the angel of the LORD who was standing among the myrtle trees and said, "We have patrolled the earth; see, the whole earth is tranquil and at rest!"
[ZECH 1:7-11]
The angel said to me in reply, "These are the four winds of the heavens, which are coming forth after being reviewed by the LORD of all the earth." The chariot with the black horses was turning toward the land of the north, the red and the white horses went after them, and the spotted ones went toward the land of the south. As these strong horses emerged, eager to set about patrolling the earth, he said, "Go, patrol the earth!" Then, as they patrolled the earth, he called out to me and said, "See, they that go forth to the land of the north will make my spirit rest in the land of the north."
[ZECH 6:5-8]
That day his feet shall rest upon the Mount of Olives, which is
opposite Jerusalem to the east. The Mount of Olives shall be cleft
in two from east to west by a very deep valley, and half of the
mountain shall move to the north and half of it to the south.
[ZECH 14:4]
Jesus answered him, "Foxes have dens and birds of the sky
have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to rest his head."
[MT 8:20]
"Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I
will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and
humble of heart; and you will find rest for your selves." [MT
11:28-29]
"When an unclean spirit goes out of a person it roams
through arid regions searching for rest but finds none. Then it
says, 'I will return to my home from which I came.' But upon
returning, it finds it empty, swept clean, and put in order. Then
it goes and brings back with itself seven other spirits more evil
than itself, and they move in and dwell there; and the last
condition of that person is worse than the first. Thus it will be
with this evil generation." [MT 12:43-45]
Then he returned to his disciples and said to them, "Are
you still sleeping and taking your rest? Behold, the hour is at
hand when the Son of Man is to be handed over to sinners." [MT
26:45]
The apostles gathered together with Jesus and reported all they had done and taught. He said to them, "Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while." People were coming and going in great numbers, and they had no opportunity even to eat. So they went off in the boat by themselves to a deserted place. People saw them leaving and many came to know about it. They hastened there on foot from all the towns and arrived at the place before them.
[MK 6:30-33]
He returned a third time and said to them, "Are you still
sleeping and taking your rest? It is enough. The hour has come.
Behold, the Son of Man is to be handed over to sinners." [MK 14:41]
Jesus answered him, "Foxes have dens and birds of the sky
have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to rest his head."
[LK 9:58]
"When an unclean spirit goes out of someone, it roams
through arid regions searching for rest but, finding none, it
says, 'I shall return to my home from which I came.' But upon
returning, it finds it swept clean and put in order. Then it goes
and brings back seven other spirits more wicked than itself who
move in and dwell there, and the last condition of that person is
worse than the first." [LK 11:24-26]
Then he told them a parable. "There was a rich man whose
land produced a bountiful harvest. He asked himself, 'What shall I
do, for I do not have space to store my harvest?' And he said,
'This is what I shall do: I shall tear down my barns and build
larger ones. There I shall store all my grain and other goods and
I shall say to myself, "Now as for you, you have so many good
things stored up for many years, rest, eat, drink, be merry!"'
But God said to him, 'You fool, this night your life will be
demanded of you; and the things you have prepared, to whom will
they belong?' Thus will it be for the one who stores up treasure
for himself but is not rich in what matters to God." [LK
12:16-21]
He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. After he had taken the body down, he wrapped it in a linen cloth and laid him in a rock-hewn tomb in which no one had yet been buried. It was the day of preparation, and the sabbath was about to begin. The women who had come from Galilee with him followed behind, and when they had seen the tomb and the way in which his body was laid in it, they returned and prepared spices and perfumed oils. Then they rested on the sabbath according to the commandment.
[LK 23:52-56]
For even when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted in every
way - external conflicts, internal fears.
But God, who encourages the downcast, encouraged us by the arrival of Titus, and not only by his arrival but also by the encouragement with which he was encouraged in regard to you, as he told us of your yearning, your lament, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced even more.
[2COR 7:5-7]
Accordingly, we ourselves boast of you in the churches of God
regarding your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and
the afflictions you endure. This is evidence of the just judgment
of God, so that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God
for which you are suffering. For it is surely just on God's part
to repay with afflictions those who are afflicting you, and to
grant rest along with us to you who are undergoing afflictions, at
the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his mighty
angels, in blazing fire, inflicting punishment on those who do not
acknowledge God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our
Lord Jesus. These will pay the penalty of eternal ruin, separated
from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power,
when he comes to be glorified among his holy ones and to be
marveled at on that day among all who have believed, for our
testimony to you was believed. [2THES 1:4-10]
Moses was "faithful in all his house" as a
"servant" to testify to what would be spoken, but
Christ was faithful as a son placed over his house. We are his
house, if (only) we hold fast to our confidence and pride in our
hope. Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: "Oh, that today
you would hear his voice, 'Harden not your hearts as at the
rebellion in the day of testing in the desert, where your
ancestors tested and tried me and saw my works for forty years.'"
Because of this I was provoked with that generation and I said,
"They have always been of erring heart, and they do not know
my ways." As I swore in my wrath, "They shall not enter
into my rest." Take care, brothers, that none of you
may have an evil and unfaithful heart, so as to forsake the living
God. Encourage yourselves daily while it is still
"today," so that none of you may grow hardened by the
deceit of sin. We have become partners of Christ if only we hold
the beginning of the reality firm until the end, for it is said:
"Oh, that today you would hear his voice: 'Harden not your
hearts as at the rebellion.'" Who were those who rebelled
when they heard? Was it not all those who came out of Egypt under
Moses? With whom was he "provoked for forty years"? Was
it not those who had sinned, whose corpses fell in the desert? And
to whom did he "swear that they should not enter into his
rest," if not to those who were disobedient? And we see that
they could not enter for lack of faith. [HEB 3:5-19]
Therefore, let us be on our guard while the promise of entering
into his rest remains, that none of you seem to have failed. For
in fact we have received the good news just as they did. But the
word that they heard did not profit them, for they were not united
in faith with those who listened. For we who believed enter into
(that) rest, just as he has said: "As I swore in my wrath,
'They shall not enter into my rest,'" and yet his works were
accomplished at the foundation of the world. For he has spoken
somewhere about the seventh day in this manner, "And God
rested on the seventh day from all his works"; and again, in
the previously mentioned place, "They shall not enter into my
rest." Therefore, since it remains that some will enter into
it, and those who formerly received the good news did not enter
because of disobedience, he once more set a day,
"today," when long afterwards he spoke through David, as
already quoted: "Oh, that today you would hear his voice:
'Harden not your hearts.'" Now if Joshua had given them rest,
he would not have spoken afterwards of another day. Therefore, a
sabbath rest still remains for the people of God. And whoever
enters into God's rest, rests from his own works as God did from
his. Therefore, let us strive to enter into that rest, so that no
one may fall after the same example of disobedience. [HEB 4:1-11]
I heard a voice from heaven say, "Write this: Blessed are
the dead who die in the Lord from now on." "Yes,"
said the Spirit, "let them find rest from their labors, for
their works accompany them." [RV 14:13]
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[S17]
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