Sheol in the Bible

And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning. And his father wept for him.

And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left: if harm befall him by the way in which ye go, then will ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.

and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.

it will come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us , that he will die: and thy servants will bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.

But if Jehovah make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then ye shall understand that these men have despised Jehovah.

So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol: and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly.

For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And burneth unto the lowest Sheol, And devoureth the earth with its increase, And setteth on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Jehovah killeth, and maketh alive: He bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up.

The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.

Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to Sheol in peace.

Now therefore hold him not guiltless, for thou art a wise man; and thou wilt know what thou oughtest to do unto him, and thou shalt bring his hoar head down to Sheol with blood.

As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.

It is high as heaven; what canst thou do? Deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know?

Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;

It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.

They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they go down to Sheol.

Drought and heat consume the snow waters:'so doth'sheol those that have sinned.

Sheol is naked before God , And Abaddon hath no covering.

He keeps back his soul from the pit,
And his life from passing over into Sheol.

For in death there is no remembrance of thee: In Sheol who shall give thee thanks?

The wicked shall be turned back unto Sheol, Even all the nations that forget God.

For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol; Neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption.

The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.

O Jehovah, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol; Thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

Let me not be put to shame, O Jehovah; for I have called upon thee: Let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol.

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; And their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume, That there be no habitation for it.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol; For he will receive me. Selah

Let death come suddenly upon them, Let them go down alive into Sheol; For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

For great is thy lovingkindness toward me; And thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draweth nigh unto Sheol.

What man is he that shall live and not see death, That shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there.

As when one ploweth and cleaveth the earth, Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;

Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on Sheol;

Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.

But he knoweth not that the dead are there; That her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

Sheol and Abaddon are before Jehovah: How much more then the hearts of the children of men!

To the wise the way of life goeth upward, That he may depart from Sheol beneath.

Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And the eyes of man are never satisfied.

Sheol; and the barren womb; The earth that is not satisfied with water; And the fire that saith not, Enough.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.

Set me as a seal upon thy heart, As a seal upon thine arm: For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as Sheol; The flashes thereof are flashes of fire, A very flame of Jehovah.

Therefore Sheol hath enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth among them, descend into it .

“Ask a sign for yourself from the Lord your God [one that will convince you that God has spoken and will keep His word]; make your request as deep as Sheol or as high as heaven.”

Sheol from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming; it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and worms cover thee.

Yet thou shalt be brought down to Sheol, to the uttermost parts of the pit.

Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.

I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

And thou wentest to the king with oil, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thine ambassadors far off, and didst debase thyself even unto Sheol.

Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the rivers thereof; and the great waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with them that descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the nether parts of the earth.

They also went down into Sheol with him unto them that are slain by the sword; yea, they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the nations.

The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of Sheol with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.

And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, that are gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are upon their bones; for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from death: O death, where are thy plagues? O Sheol, where is thy destruction? repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.

Though they dig into Sheol, thence shall my hand take them; and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.

And he said, I called by reason of mine affliction unto Jehovah, And he answered me; Out of the belly of Sheol cried I, And thou heardest my voice.

Yea, moreover, wine is treacherous, a haughty man, that keepeth not at home; who enlargeth his desire as Sheol, and he is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all peoples.