Hell

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• (In the A. V. this word occurs in O. T. Scriptures, cited below, and is the translation of the Hebrew word "sheol," which signifies the unseen state)
• In the R. V. of O. T. it appears only inIsaiah 5:14Isaiah 14:9Isaiah 14:15Isaiah 28:15Isaiah 28:18Isaiah 57:9Ezekiel 31:16Ezekiel 31:17Ezekiel 32:21Ezekiel 32:27Amos 9:2Jonah 2:2Habakkuk 2:5
• In the R. V., "sheol" is translated "lowest pit"Deuteronomy 32:22Psalms 86:13
• And it is translated "pit" inPsalms 55:15
• In the R. V. the word "Sheol" itself occurs in the following scriptures2 Samuel 22:6Job 11:8Job 26:6Psalms 9:17Psalms 16:10Psalms 18:5Psalms 116:3Psalms 139:8Proverbs 5:5Proverbs 7:27Proverbs 9:18Proverbs 15:11Proverbs 15:24Proverbs 23:14Proverbs 27:20
• Sheol is translated "grave" in A. V. in So 8:6Genesis 37:35Genesis 42:38Genesis 44:29Genesis 44:311 Samuel 2:61 Kings 2:61 Kings 9Job 7:9Job 14:13Job 17:13Job 21:13Job 24:19Psalms 6:5Psalms 30:3Psalms 31:17Psalms 49:14Psalms 49:15Psalms 88:3Psalms 89:48Psalms 141:7
• In the R. V. the Greek word "gehenna" is translated "hell" in the following scripturesMatthew 5:22Matthew 5:29Matthew 5:30Matthew 10:28Matthew 18:9Matthew 23:15Matthew 23:33Mark 9:43Mark 9:45Mark 9:47Luke 12:5James 3:6
• The R. V. has introduced "Hades," the word found in the Greek text, which signifies the unseen world, in the following scripturesMatthew 11:23Matthew 16:18Luke 10:15Luke 16:23Acts 2:27Acts 2:31Revelation 1:18Revelation 6:8Revelation 20:13Revelation 20:14
• THE FUTURE HOME OF THE WICKED Jude 1:6-23Psalms 9:17Proverbs 5:5Proverbs 9:13Proverbs 9:15–18Proverbs 15:24Proverbs 23:13Proverbs 23:14Isaiah 30:33Isaiah 33:14Matthew 3:12Matthew 5:29Matthew 5:30Matthew 7:13Matthew 7:14Matthew 8:11Matthew 8:12Matthew 10:28Matthew 13:30Matthew 13:38–42Matthew 13:49
• See Wicked, Punishment of

The passages, in Bible order (113)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 37:35

   All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 37:351 voice

   “And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him,....

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2. Genesis 42:38

   But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If any harm comes to him on your journey, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.”

   ›Commentary on Genesis 42:381 voice

   “After they had loaded their supplies, the [brothers] went up and related to their father the evils that they had endured on this trip and how they had become objects of ridicule in Egypt, having been falsely accused of spying in Egypt, and that they …

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3. Genesis 44:29

   Now if you also take this one from me and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.’

   ›Commentary on Genesis 44:291 voice

   “And if ye take this also from me,.... His son Benjamin, as he perhaps suspected they had taken Joseph, and made away with him: and mischief befall him; either in Egypt, or on the road, going or returning, any ill accident, especially death, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, or what may issue in it: ye shall bring my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave; it would be the means of his death, and while he lived he should be full of sorrow and grief; see Gen 42:38.

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4. Genesis 44:31

   sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 44:311 voice

   “It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die,....

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5. Deuteronomy 32:22

   For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 32:221 voice

   “For a fire is kindled in mine anger,....

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6. 1 Samuel 2:6

   The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.

   ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 2:61 voice

   “Certainly his making alive is to take place after he has killed. As, therefore, it is by death that he kills, it is by the resurrection that he will make alive. Now it is the flesh which is killed by death; the flesh, therefore, will be revived by the resurrection. Surely if killing means taking away life from the flesh, and its opposite, reviving, amounts to restoring life to the flesh, it must needs be that the flesh rise again, to which the life, which has been taken away by killing, has to be restored by vivification.

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7. 2 Samuel 22:6

   The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.

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8. 1 Kings 2:6

   So act according to your wisdom, and do not let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.

   ›Commentary on 1 Kings 2:62 voices

   “Do therefore according to thy wisdom,....

   “[David] orders Solomon to punish [Joab], not out of viciousness or hatred for him but because he knew that he was wicked and that, if he had acted with hostility against him who was a mature man, he would act even worse against a young …

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9. 1 Kings 9:1

   Now when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and had achieved all that he had desired to do,

   ›Commentary on 1 Kings 9:11 voice

   “And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the Lord,.... Which was done in seven years, 1Ki 6:38. and the king's house; his own palace, which was finished in thirteen years, 1Ki 7:1, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do; all his other buildings, the house for Pharaoh's daughter, the house of the forest of Lebanon, and may include his vineyards, gardens, orchards, and pools of water, made for his pleasure, Ecc 2:4 in which he succeeded and prospered, 2Ch 7:11.

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10. Job 7:9

    As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.

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    “As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away; so he that goeth down to hell shall come up no more. For a cloud is suspended in the higher regions, but it is condensed and driven by the wind that it flies, and it is scattered by the heat of the sun that it vanishes.

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11. Job 11:8

    They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?

    ›Commentary on Job 11:81 voice

    “He is higher than heaven, what canst thou do? Deeper than hell, what canst thou know? His measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. In that God is set forth as 'higher than heaven,' 'deeper than hell,' 'longer than the earth,' and 'broader than the sea,' this must be understood in a spiritual sense, inasmuch as it is impious to conceive any thing concerning Him after the proportions of body. Now He is 'higher than heaven,' in that He transcends all things by the Incomprehensibility of His spiritual Nature.

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12. Job 14:13

    If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!

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13. Job 17:13

    If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

    ›Commentary on Job 17:131 voice

    “Ver. 13. If I wait, hell is mine house; and I have made my bed in the darkness. For the former Saints could undergo adversity, and yet could not, when brought out of the body, be at once freed from the regions of hell; in that He had not yet come, Who should descend thereinto without sin, that He might set free those, who were there bound by right of sin.

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14. Job 21:13

    They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.

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15. Job 24:19

    As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.

    ›Commentary on Job 24:191 voice

    “Let him pass to excessive heat from the snow waters. And his sin even to hell. Iniquity is on this account likened to cold, because the mind that sins it binds up with insensibility. Hence it is written; As a fountain has made her waters cold, so she has made her wickedness cold. Contrariwise charity is 'heat,' in this respect that it fires the soul it fills. Of which 'heat' is written, Because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

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16. Job 26:6

    Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

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