Sheol in the Bible

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

But he said, My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left; and if mischief should befall him by the way in which ye go, then would ye bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to Sheol.

And if you take this one also from me, and he encounters harm, you will bring down my gray head in sorrow to Sheol.'

it shall happen [that] when he sees that the boy is gone, he will die. And your servants will bring down the gray head of your servant, our father, to Sheol with sorrow.

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

They and all that they had went down alive into Sheol, and the earth closed upon them. And they perished from among the congregation.

For a fire was kindled by my anger, and it burned {up to the depths of Sheol}, and it devoured [the] earth and its produce, and it set afire the foundation of [the] mountains.

Yahweh kills and restores alive, he brings down [to] Sheol and raises up.

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

You must act according to your wisdom, but you must not let his gray hair go down to Sheol in peace.

So then, do not leave him unpunished, for you [are] a wise man, and you will know what you must do to him. You must bring his grey hair down to Sheol with blood."

A cloud vanishes, and it goes away, so [he who] goes down to Sheol will not come up.

It is as high as heaven; what can you do? deeper than Sheol; what can you know?

"{O that} you would conceal me in Sheol, [that] you would hide me {until your wrath is past}, [that] you would appoint a set time for me and remember me.

If I hope [for] Sheol [as] my house, [if] I spread my couch in the darkness,

Will they go down [to] the bars of Sheol? Or shall we descend together into the dust?"

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

Drought and heat snatch away [the] snow waters, [like] Sheol [snatches away] those [who have] sinned.

Sheol is naked before him, and destruction has no covering.

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

For there is not in death Thy memorial, In Sheol, who doth give thanks to Thee?

The wicked do turn back to Sheol, All nations forgetting God.

For Thou dost not leave my soul to Sheol, Nor givest thy saintly one to see corruption.

Cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been snares of death.

Jehovah, Thou hast brought up from Sheol my soul, Thou hast kept me alive, From going down to the pit.

O Jehovah, let me not be ashamed, For I have called Thee, let the wicked be ashamed, Let them become silent to Sheol.

As sheep for Sheol they have set themselves, Death doth afflict them, And the upright rule over them in the morning, And their form is for consumption. Sheol is a dwelling for him.

Only, God doth ransom my soul from the hand of Sheol, For He doth receive me. Selah.

Desolations are upon them, They go down to Sheol -- alive, For wickedness is in their dwelling, in their midst.

For Your faithful love for me is great,
and You deliver my life from the depths of Sheol.

For I have had enough troubles,
and my life is near Sheol.

What man can live and never see death?
Who can save himself from the power of Sheol?Selah

The ropes of death were wrapped around me,
and the torments of Sheol overcame me;
I encountered trouble and sorrow.

If I ascend up into heaven, you are there: if I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there.

As when one plows and breaks up the soil,
turning up rocks,
so our bones have been scattered
at the mouth of Sheol.

Let’s swallow them alive, like Sheol,
still healthy as they go down to 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 doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there,
that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

Sheol and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?

The way of life leads above to the wise, that he may depart from sheol beneath.

You shall beat him with the rod, and shall 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, Flames of Jah.

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 for a sign from the Lord your God—from the depths of Sheol to the heights of 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.

For ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol have we made an 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, ye shall be trodden down by it.

I was the one who said, "I must go in the quiet of my days; I am summoned through the gates of Sheol [for] the rest of my years."

For Sheol cannot praise you; death [cannot] praise you. Those who go down [to the] pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.

And you climbed down to the king with oil, and you made your perfumes numerous, and you sent your envoys {far away}, and you {sent down deep} to 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: where, O death, are thy plagues? where, O Sheol, is thy destruction? Repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.

If they dig through into sheol, From thence doth My hand take them, And if they go up the heavens, From thence I cause them to come down.

And he saith: I called, because of my distress, to Jehovah, And He doth answer me, From the belly of sheol I have cried, Thou hast heard my voice.

And also, because the wine is treacherous, A man is haughty, and remaineth not at home, Who hath enlarged as sheol his soul, And is as death that is not satisfied, And doth gather unto itself all the nations, And doth assemble unto itself all the peoples,