Thematic Bible: Death of the The Wicked


Thematic Bible



How they become a desolation in a moment! They come to a complete end by terrors.

"Sudden terrors terrify him all around, and they chase him at his heels. His wealth will become hunger, and disaster is ready for his stumbling. It consumes parts of his skin; the firstborn of death consumes his limbs. read more.
He is torn from his tent {in which he trusted}, and it brought him to the king of terrors. "{Nothing} remains for him in his tent; sulfur is scattered upon his dwelling place.

He goes to bed [with] wealth, but {he will do so no more}; he opens his eyes, and {it is gone}. Terrors overtake him like the water; a storm wind carries him off [in the] night. [The] east wind lifts him up, and he is gone, and it sweeps him away from his place.


His remembrance perishes from [the] earth, and [there is] not a name for him on [the] street.


The memory of righteousness [is] like a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.


In peace you will die, and as [there was] burning for your ancestors, the former kings who were {before you}, so they will burn for you, and they will lament for you, "Alas, lord!" For [the] word I have spoken,' {declares} Yahweh." '"

Zedekiah [was] twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh his God. He did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet {who spoke for} Yahweh. And he also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. He stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.



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

[The] east wind lifts him up, and he is gone, and it sweeps him away from his place.



For I have no pleasure in the death of the dying," {declares} the Lord Yahweh. "And [so] repent and live!"



Now it happened that the poor man died, and he was carried away by the angels to {Abraham's side}. And the rich man also died and was buried. And in Hades he lifted up his eyes [as he] was in torment [and] saw Abraham from a distance, and Lazarus {at his side}.


And you, if you do warn [the] wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness and from his wicked way, on account of his guilt he will die, and you yourself will have saved your life.

So he said to them again, "I am going away, and you will seek me and will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come!"


(Now this man acquired a field for the wages of [his] wickedness, and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his intestines spilled out.



Sheol below is getting excited over you, to meet {you when you come}; it arouses [the] dead spirits for you, all of [the] leaders of [the] earth. It raises all of [the] kings of [the] nations from their thrones.

to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to depart to his own place."


And they laid hands on her, and she went into the entrance of the Horse Gate of the house of the king, and they killed her there.


The land opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their houses and every person {that belonged to Korah} and all the property.


But another man drew his bow fully and struck the king of Israel between the armor scales and the breastplate; so he said to his chariot driver, "Turn {the chariot} and bring me out from the camp, for I am wounded."




So he said, "Throw her down." So they threw her down, and her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses, and they trampled her.


{That same night} Belshazzar, the Chaldean king, was killed.


And they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the anger of the king was abated.


Like sheep they are destined to Sheol; death will shepherd them. But the upright will rule over them in the morning, and their forms [will be for] Sheol to consume, [far from] his lofty abode.