'Death' in the Bible

Then David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, As Jehovah liveth, the man that hath done this thing is worthy of death;

And behold, the whole family is risen against thy bondmaid, and they say, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may put him to death, for the life of his brother whom he killed; and we will destroy the heir also: so they will quench my coal which is left, and will not leave to my husband a name or remnant on the earth.

And Ittai answered the king and said, As Jehovah liveth, and as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant be.

And Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Should not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed Jehovah's anointed?

And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries to me? Should there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am this day king over Israel?

And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women, concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in a house of confinement and maintained them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.

And the Gibeonites said to him, As to Saul and his house, it is with us no question of receiving silver or gold, neither is it for us to have any man put to death in Israel. And he said, What ye say will I do for you.

and he gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill before Jehovah. And they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the first days of the harvest, in the beginning of barley harvest.

For the waves of death encompassed me, Torrents of Belial made me afraid.

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

And it was told Solomon saying, Behold, Adonijah fears king Solomon; for behold, he has caught hold of the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear to me this day that he will not put his servant to death with the sword.

And behold, there is with thee Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjaminite of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day that I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by Jehovah saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.

And now as Jehovah liveth, who has established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day.

And the king said to Abiathar the priest, Go to Anathoth, to thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death; but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou didst bear the ark of Adonai Jehovah before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.

And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell upon him, and put him to death; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

Then spoke the woman whose was the living child to the king, for her bowels yearned over her son, and she said, Ah, my lord! give her the living child, and in no wise put it to death. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine; divide it.

And the king answered and said, Give this one the living child, and in no wise put it to death: she is its mother.

And Solomon sought to kill Jeroboam; and Jeroboam arose and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt; and he was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.

And he said, What have I sinned, that thou givest thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to put me to death?

And Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.

And he went forth to the source of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith Jehovah: I have healed these waters: there shall not be from thence any more death or barrenness.

And they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out and said, Man of God, there is death in the pot! And they could not eat it.

If we say, Let us enter into the city, the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we abide here, we shall die. And now come, let us fall away to the camp of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they put us to death, we shall but die.

And ye shall encompass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and he that comes within the ranks shall be put to death; and ye shall be with the king when he goes out and when he comes in.

And Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds that were set over the host, and said to them, Lead her forth without the ranks; and whosoever follows her, slay with the sword; for the priest said, Let her not be put to death in the house of Jehovah.

And they made way for her, and she went by the way by which the horses entered the king's house, and there was she put to death.

But the children of those that smote him he did not put to death; according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein Jehovah commanded saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel, fifteen years.

And Jehovah smote the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and dwelt in a separate house. And Jotham the king's son was over the house, judging the people of the land.

And the king of Assyria hearkened to him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried it captive to Kir, and put Rezin to death.

In those days Hezekiah was sick unto death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, Thus saith Jehovah: Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.

and the king of Babylon smote them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his land.

And after the death of Hezron in Caleb-Ephratah, Abijah, Hezron's wife, bore him Ashhur, the father of Tekoa.

For David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built for Jehovah must be exceeding great in fame and in beauty in all lands: I will therefore make preparation for it. And David prepared abundantly before his death.

and that whoever would not seek Jehovah the God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah like the house of Ahab; for they were his counsellors after the death of his father, to his destruction.

And the Levites shall encompass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and he that comes into the house shall be put to death; and ye shall be with the king when he comes in and when he goes out.

And Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of the hundreds that were set over the host, and said to them, Lead her forth without the ranks; and whosoever follows her, let him be slain with the sword; for the priest said, Ye shall not put her to death in the house of Jehovah.

And they made way for her, and she went through the entrance of the horse-gate into the king's house, and they put her to death there.

And after the death of Jehoiada the princes of Judah came and made obeisance to the king; then the king hearkened to them.

But their children he did not put to death, but did according to that which is written in the law in the book of Moses, wherein Jehovah commanded saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, nor shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.

And Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel, fifteen years.

And Uzziah the king was a leper to the day of his death, and dwelt in a separate house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of Jehovah. And Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the people of the land.

In those days Hezekiah was sick unto death, and he prayed to Jehovah; and he spoke to him and gave him a sign.

And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the highest place of the sepulchres of the sons of David; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.

And whosoever will not do the law of thy God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed diligently upon him, whether unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.

All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces do know that whoever, whether man or woman, shall come to the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law, to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live; and I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify it.

Who long for death, and it cometh not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;

In famine he will redeem thee from death, and in war from the power of the sword.

So that my soul chooseth strangling, death, rather than my bones.

Before I go, and never to return, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

A land of gloom, as darkness itself; of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as thick darkness.

He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out into light the shadow of death;

My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

The firstborn of death devoureth the members of his body; it will devour his members.

For the morning is to them all as the shadow of death; for they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.

Those that remain of him shall be buried by death, and his widows shall not weep.

Man putteth an end to the darkness, and exploreth to the utmost limit, the stones of darkness and of the shadow of death.

Destruction and death say, We have heard its report with our ears.

For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and into the house of assemblage for all living.

If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, and have tormented to death the souls of its owners:

There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? and hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?

For in death there is no remembrance of thee; in Sheol who shall give thanks unto thee?

And he hath prepared for him instruments of death; his arrows hath he made burning.

Be gracious unto me, O Jehovah; consider mine affliction from them that hate me, lifting me up from the gates of death:

Consider, answer me, O Jehovah my God! lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

The bands of death encompassed me, and torrents of Belial made me afraid.

The bands of Sheol surrounded me, the cords of death encountered me.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my palate; and thou hast laid me in the dust of death.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.

To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

Though thou hast crushed us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide until death.

Like sheep are they laid in Sheol: Death feedeth on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their comeliness shall be for Sheol to consume, that there be no habitation for them.

My heart is writhing within me, and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

Let death seize upon them, let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwellings, in their midst.

For thou hast delivered my soul from death; wilt thou not keep my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

Our God is the God of salvation; and with Jehovah, the Lord, are the goings forth even from death.

For they have no pangs in their death, and their body is well nourished;

He made a way for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

What man liveth, and shall not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

Such as inhabit darkness and the shadow of death, bound in affliction and iron,

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bands in sunder.

Their soul abhorreth all manner of food, and they draw near unto the gates of death:

The bands of death encompassed me, and the anguish of Sheol took hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow:

For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, my feet from falling.

Precious in the sight of Jehovah is the death of his saints.

Jah hath chastened me sore; but he hath not given me over unto death.

for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead;

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 that sinneth against me doeth violence to his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; but righteousness delivereth from death.

Wealth profiteth not in the day of wrath; but righteousness delivereth from death.

As righteousness tendeth to life, so he that pursueth evil doeth it to his own death.

In the path of righteousness is life, and in the pathway thereof there is no death.

The teaching of the wise man is a fountain of life, to turn away from the snares of death.

There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the ways of death.