'Death' in the Bible

Go, get together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and go without food for me, taking no food or drink night or day for three days: and I and my women will do the same; and so I will go in to the king, which is against the law: and if death is to be my fate, then let it come.

For we are given up, I and my people, to destruction and death and to be cut off. If we had been taken as men-servants and women-servants for a price, I would have said nothing, for our trouble is little in comparison with the king's loss.

Then Harbonah, one of the unsexed servants waiting before the king, said, See, the pillar fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordecai, who said a good word for the king, is still in its place in Haman's house. Then the king said, Put him to death by hanging him on it.

So Haman was put to death by hanging him on the pillar he had made for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath became less.

Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, See now, I have given Esther the family of Haman, and he has come to his death by hanging, because he made an attack on the Jews.

In these letters the king gave authority to the Jews in every town to come together and make a fight for their lives, and to send death and destruction on the power of any people in any part of the kingdom attacking them or their children or their women, and to take their goods from them by force,

So the Jews overcame all their attackers with the sword and with death and destruction, and did to their haters whatever they had a desire to do.

And in Shushan the Jews put to death five hundred men.

They put to death Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,

On that day the number of those who had been put to death in the town of Shushan was given to the king.

And the king said to Esther the queen, The Jews have put five hundred men to death in Shushan, as well as the ten sons of Haman: what then have they done in the rest of the kingdom! Now what is your prayer? for it will be given to you; what other request have you? and it will be done.

For the Jews who were in Shushan came together again on the fourteenth day of the month Adar and put to death three hundred men in Shushan; but they put not a hand on their goods.

And the other Jews in every division of the kingdom came together, fighting for their lives, and got salvation from their haters and put seventy-five thousand of them to death; but they did not put a hand on their goods.

But when the business was put before the king, he gave orders by letters that the evil design which he had made against the Jews was to be turned against himself; and that he and his sons were to be put to death by hanging.

Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?

To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth;

For wrath is the cause of death to the foolish, and he who has no wisdom comes to his end through passion.

When there is need of food he will keep you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.

So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.

So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.

If death comes suddenly through disease, he makes sport of the fate of those who have done no wrong.

If he goes on his way, shutting a man up and putting him to death, who may make him go back from his purpose?

But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?

If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.

You overcome him for ever, and he is gone; his face is changed in death, and you send him away.

He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.

From the town come sounds of pain from those who are near death, and the soul of the wounded is crying out for help; but God does not take note of their prayer.

He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.

Let it be far from me! I will certainly not say that you are right! I will come to death before I give up my righteousness.

Destruction and Death say, We have only had word of it with our ears.

For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.

If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him;

If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;

And his soul comes near to the underworld, and his life to the angels of death.

Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?

For in death there is no memory of you; in the underworld who will give you praise?

He has made ready for him the instruments of death; he makes his arrows flames of fire.

Have mercy on me, O Lord, and see how I am troubled by my haters; let me be lifted up from the doors of death;

He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor.

Let my voice come before you, and give me an answer, O Lord my God; let your light be shining on me, so that the sleep of death may not overtake me;

For you will not let my soul be prisoned in the underworld; you will not let your loved one see the place of death.

The cords of death were round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear.

The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.

My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.

To keep their souls from death; and to keep them living in time of need.

The evil-doers have taken out their swords, their bows are bent; for crushing the poor, and to put to death those who are upright in their ways.

The sinners are watching the upright man, desiring to put him to death.

Truly, because of you we are put to death every day; we are numbered like sheep for destruction.

(Because it takes a great price to keep his soul from death, and man is not able to give it.)

Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

But God will get back my soul; for he will take me from the power of death. (Selah.)

For at his death, he will take nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.

Be my saviour from violent death, O God, the God of my salvation; and my tongue will give praise to your righteousness.

My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.

Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.

Because you have taken my soul from the power of death; and kept my feet from falling, so that I may be walking before God in the light of life.

Put them not to death, for so my people will keep the memory of them: let them be sent in all directions by your power; make them low, O Lord our saviour.

Our God is for us a God of salvation; his are the ways out of death.

The wrath of God came on them, and put to death the fattest of them, and put an end to the young men of Israel.

When he sent death on them, then they made search for him; turning to him and looking for him with care;

He let his wrath have its way; he did not keep back their soul from death, but gave their life to disease.

Their priests were put to death by the sword, and their widows made no weeping for them.

O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:

Rahab was crushed by you like one wounded to death; with your strong arm you put to flight all your haters.

What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah.)

They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father;

If the Lord had not been my helper, my soul would quickly have gone down into death.

At his word their waters were turned to blood, and he sent death on all their fish.

He put to death the first child of every family in the land, the first-fruits of their strength.

They are disgusted by all food, and they come near to the doors of death.

Because he had no mercy, but was cruel to the low and the poor, designing the death of the broken-hearted.

The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.

You have taken my soul from the power of death, keeping my eyes from weeping, and my feet from falling.

Dear in the eyes of the Lord is the death of his saints.

Life and not death will be my part, and I will give out the story of the works of the Lord.

The hand of Jah has been hard on me; but he has not given me up to death.

He put to death the first-fruits of Egypt, of man and of beast.

He overcame great nations, and put strong kings to death;

To him who put to death the first-fruits of Egypt: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:

And put noble kings to death: for his mercy is unchanging for ever:

If only you would put the sinners to death, O God; go far from me, you men of blood.

Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;

For the turning back of the simple from teaching will be the cause of their death, and the peace of the foolish will be their destruction.

For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:

Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld;

The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;

For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army.

Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.

But he who does evil to me, does wrong to his soul: all my haters are in love with death.

She has put her fat beasts to death; her wine is mixed, her table is ready.

Wealth which comes from sin is of no profit, but righteousness gives salvation from death.

The lips of the upright man give food to men, but the foolish come to death for need of sense.

Wealth is of no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness keeps a man safe from death.

At the death of an upright man his hope does not come to an end, but the hope of the evil-doer comes to destruction.

When things go well for the upright man, all the town is glad; at the death of sinners, there are cries of joy.

So righteousness gives life; but he who goes after evil gets death for himself.

In the road of righteousness is life, but the way of the evil-doer goes to death.

The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning men away from the nets of death.

There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, by which one may be turned from the nets of death.