45 Bible Verses about Grave, The

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Numbers 19:16

Also, anyone who in the open field touches one who has been slain with a sword or who has died naturally, or a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean for seven days.

Deuteronomy 34:6

And He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth-peor; but no man knows his burial place to this day.

1 Kings 13:31

After he had buried him, he spoke to his sons, saying, “When I die, bury me in the grave in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.

2 Kings 21:26

He was buried in his grave in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son became king in his place.

Isaiah 22:16

‘What right do you have here,
And whom do you have here,
That you have hewn a tomb for yourself here,
You who hew a tomb on the height,
You who carve a resting place for yourself in the rock?

Genesis 37:35

Then all his sons and all his daughters arose to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. And he said, “Surely I will go down to Sheol in mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.

Psalm 88:3

For my soul has had enough troubles,
And my life has drawn near to Sheol.

Genesis 42:38

But Jacob said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If harm should befall him on the journey you are taking, then you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.”

Genesis 44:29

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

2 Samuel 22:5-6

“For the waves of death encompassed me;
The torrents of destruction overwhelmed me;
The cords of Sheol surrounded me;
The snares of death confronted me.

1 Kings 2:6

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

Job 3:21-22

Who long for death, but there is none,
And dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
Who rejoice greatly,
And exult when they find the grave?

Job 10:19

‘I should have been as though I had not been,
Carried from womb to tomb.’

Psalm 30:3

O Lord, You have brought up my soul from Sheol;
You have kept me alive, that I would not go down to the pit.

Proverbs 9:18

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

Proverbs 30:16

Sheol, and the barren womb,
Earth that is never satisfied with water,
And fire that never says, “Enough.”

Isaiah 28:15

Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death,
And with Sheol we have made a pact.
The overwhelming scourge will not reach us when it passes by,
For we have made falsehood our refuge and we have concealed ourselves with deception.”

Jeremiah 20:17

Because he did not kill me before birth,
So that my mother would have been my grave,
And her womb ever pregnant.

Habakkuk 2:5

“Furthermore, wine betrays the haughty man,
So that he does not stay at home.
He enlarges his appetite like Sheol,
And he is like death, never satisfied.
He also gathers to himself all nations
And collects to himself all peoples.

Psalm 55:15

Let death come deceitfully upon them;
Let them go down alive to Sheol,
For evil is in their dwelling, in their midst.

Numbers 16:30

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.”

Job 24:19

“Drought and heat consume the snow waters,
So does Sheol those who have sinned.

Job 40:13

“Hide them in the dust together;
Bind them in the hidden place.

Psalm 9:17

The wicked will return to Sheol,
Even all the nations who forget God.

Psalm 31:17

Let me not be put to shame, O Lord, for I call upon You;
Let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol.

Psalm 49:14

As sheep they are appointed for Sheol;
Death shall be their shepherd;
And the upright shall rule over them in the morning,
And their form shall be for Sheol to consume
So that they have no habitation.

Isaiah 5:14

Therefore Sheol has enlarged its throat and opened its mouth without measure;
And Jerusalem’s splendor, her multitude, her din of revelry and the jubilant within her, descend into it.

Isaiah 14:9

“Sheol from beneath is excited over you to meet you when you come;
It arouses for you the spirits of the dead, all the leaders of the earth;
It raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones.

Job 17:13-16

“If I look for Sheol as my home,
I make my bed in the darkness;
If I call to the pit, ‘You are my father’;
To the worm, ‘my mother and my sister’;
Where now is my hope?
And who regards my hope?
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“Will it go down with me to Sheol?
Shall we together go down into the dust?”

Job 7:9

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

Psalm 6:5

For there is no mention of You in death;
In Sheol who will give You thanks?

Psalm 88:5

Forsaken among the dead,
Like the slain who lie in the grave,
Whom You remember no more,
And they are cut off from Your hand.

Isaiah 38:18

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

Job 14:13

“Oh that You would hide me in Sheol,
That You would conceal me until Your wrath returns to You,
That You would set a limit for me and remember me!

Hosea 13:14

Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol?
Shall I redeem them from death?
O Death, where are your thorns?
O Sheol, where is your sting?
Compassion will be hidden from My sight.

Acts 2:27

Because You will not abandon my soul to Hades,
Nor allow Your Holy One to undergo decay.

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