Death Explained as a Sleep

"And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers." Deuteronomy 31:16.
"And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers . . ." 2 Samuel 7:12.
"When my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers . . ." 1 Kings 1:21.
"So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David." 1 Kings 2:10.
"And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers . . ." 1 Kings 11:21.
"And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father." 1 Kings 11:43.
"For now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be." Job 7:21.
"So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep." Job 14:12.
"Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death." Psalm 13:3.
"And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt." Daniel 12:2.
"He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn." Matthew 9:24. (See also Mark 5:39 and Luke 8:52)
"And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose." Matthew 27:52.
"Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. . . . Howbeit Jesus spake of his death." John 11:11, 13.
"And they stoned Stephen. . . . And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep." Acts 7:59, 60.
"For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption." Acts 13:36.
"For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep." 1 Corinthians 11:30.
"After that he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep." 1 Corinthians 15:6.
"And if Christ be not raised . . . then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished." 1 Corinthians 15:17, 18.
"But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept." 1 Corinthians 15:20.
"Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed." 1 Corinthians 15:51.
"But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep." 1 Thessalonians 4:13-15.
"For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him." 1 Thessalonians 5:9, 10.
"Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation." 2 Peter 3:3, 4.
See also 1 Kings 14:20, 31; 15:8, 24; 16:6, 28; 22:40, 50; 2 Kings 8:24; 10:35; 13:9, 13; 14:16, 22, 29; 15:7, 22, 38; 16:20; 20:21; 21:18; 24:6; 2 Chronicles 9:31; 12:16; 14:1; 16:13; 21:1; 26:2, 23; 27:9; 28:27; 32:33; 33:20.