Sheol in the Bible

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

But Jacob answered, “My son will not go down with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left. If anything happens to him on your journey, you will bring my gray hairs down to Sheol in sorrow.”

If you also take this one from me and anything happens to him, you will bring my gray hairs down to Sheol in sorrow.’

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

But if the Lord brings about an entirely new thing and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that is theirs, and they descend alive into Sheol, then you will understand that these men have spurned the Lord.”

So they and all that belonged to them went down alive to Sheol; and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.

‘For a fire is kindled by My anger,
And it burns to the depths of Sheol (the place of the dead, the nether world),
It devours the earth with its yield,
And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

“The Lord puts to death and makes alive;
He brings down to Sheol (the grave) and raises up [from the grave].

The bands of Sheol surrounded me; The cords of death encountered me;

And thou shalt do according to thy wisdom, and not let his hoar head go down to Sheol in peace.

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

“When a cloud vanishes, it is gone,
So he who goes down to Sheol does not come up.

Heights of the heavens! -- what dost thou? Deeper than Sheol! -- what knowest thou?

O that in Sheol Thou wouldest conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.

If I wait -- Sheol is my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.

To the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.

They wear out in good their days, And in a moment to Sheol go down.

Drought -- also heat -- consume snow-waters, Sheol those who have sinned.

Naked is Sheol over-against Him, And there is no covering to destruction.

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.

You will not abandon me to Sheol; you will not allow your faithful follower to see the Pit.

The ropes of Sheol tightened around me, the snares of death trapped me.

O Lord, You have brought my life up from Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead);
You have kept me alive, so that I would not go down to the pit (grave).

Let me not be put to shame, O Lord, for I call on You;
Let the wicked (godless) be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead).

Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead);
Death will be their shepherd;
And the upright shall rule over them in the morning,
And their form and beauty shall be for Sheol to consume,
So that they have no dwelling [on earth].

But God will redeem my life from the power of Sheol,
For He will receive me. Selah.

Let death come deceitfully upon them;
Let them go down alive to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
For evil [of every kind] is in their dwelling and in their hearts, in their midst.

For great is Your lovingkindness and graciousness toward me;
And You have rescued my life from the depths of Sheol [from death].

For my soul is full of troubles,
And my life draws near the grave (Sheol, the place of the dead).

What man can live and not see death?
Can he rescue his soul from the [powerful] hand of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead)? Selah.

Compassed me have cords of death, And straits of Sheol have found me, Distress and sorrow I find.

If I ascend the heavens -- there Thou art, And spread out a couch in Sheol, lo, Thee!

As when one plows and breaks open the earth,
Our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

Let us swallow them alive like Sheol,
Even whole, as those who go down to the pit;

Her feet go down to death,
Her steps take hold of Sheol.

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

But he does not know that the dead are there,
That her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the Lord,
How much more the hearts of men!

The path of life leads upward for the wise
That he may keep away from Sheol below.

You shall strike him with the rod
And rescue his soul from Sheol.

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied,
Nor are the eyes of man ever satisfied.

Sheol, and the barren womb; the earth which is not filled with water, and the fire which saith not, It is enough.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no activity or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol where you are going.

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; make it deep as Sheol or high as heaven.”

Sheol from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming, stirring up the dead for thee, all the he-goats of the earth; making to rise from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, the noise of thy lyres: the maggot is spread under thee, And worms cover thee.

none the less art thou brought down to Sheol, to the recesses 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 said, “In the middle of my life
I am to enter the gates of Sheol;
I am to be deprived of the rest of my years.”

“For Sheol cannot thank You,
Death cannot praise You;
Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.

You take olive oil as tribute to your king, along with many perfumes. You send your messengers to a distant place; you go all the way to Sheol.

"'This is what the sovereign Lord says: On the day it went down to Sheol I caused observers to lament. I covered it with the deep and held back its rivers; its plentiful water was restrained. I clothed Lebanon in black for it, and all the trees of the field wilted because of it.

I made the nations shake at the sound of its fall, when I threw it down to Sheol, along with those who descend to the pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and the best of Lebanon, all that were well-watered, were comforted in the earth below.

Those who lived in its shade, its allies among the nations, also went down with it to Sheol, to those killed by the sword.

The bravest of the warriors will speak to him from the midst of Sheol along with his allies, saying: 'The uncircumcised have come down; they lie still, killed by the sword.'

They do not lie with the fallen warriors of ancient times, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, having their swords placed under their heads and their shields on their bones, when the terror of these warriors was in the land of the living.

From the hand of Sheol I do ransom them, From death I redeem them, Where is thy plague, O death? Where thy destruction, O Sheol? Repentance is hid from Mine eyes.

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

and he said: I cried by reason of my distress unto Jehovah, and he answered me; Out of the belly of Sheol cried I: thou heardest my voice.

And moreover, the wine is treacherous: he is a proud man, and keepeth not at rest, he enlargeth his desire as Sheol, and he is like death and cannot be satisfied; and he assembleth unto him all nations, and gathereth unto him all peoples.