Hell

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• (In the A. V. this word occurs in O. T. Scriptures, cited below, and is the translation of the Hebrew word "sheol," which signifies the unseen state)
• In the R. V. of O. T. it appears only inIsaiah 5:14Isaiah 14:9Isaiah 14:15Isaiah 28:15Isaiah 28:18Isaiah 57:9Ezekiel 31:16Ezekiel 31:17Ezekiel 32:21Ezekiel 32:27Amos 9:2Jonah 2:2Habakkuk 2:5
• In the R. V., "sheol" is translated "lowest pit"Deuteronomy 32:22Psalms 86:13
• And it is translated "pit" inPsalms 55:15
• In the R. V. the word "Sheol" itself occurs in the following scriptures2 Samuel 22:6Job 11:8Job 26:6Psalms 9:17Psalms 16:10Psalms 18:5Psalms 116:3Psalms 139:8Proverbs 5:5Proverbs 7:27Proverbs 9:18Proverbs 15:11Proverbs 15:24Proverbs 23:14Proverbs 27:20
• Sheol is translated "grave" in A. V. in So 8:6Genesis 37:35Genesis 42:38Genesis 44:29Genesis 44:311 Samuel 2:61 Kings 2:61 Kings 9Job 7:9Job 14:13Job 17:13Job 21:13Job 24:19Psalms 6:5Psalms 30:3Psalms 31:17Psalms 49:14Psalms 49:15Psalms 88:3Psalms 89:48Psalms 141:7
• In the R. V. the Greek word "gehenna" is translated "hell" in the following scripturesMatthew 5:22Matthew 5:29Matthew 5:30Matthew 10:28Matthew 18:9Matthew 23:15Matthew 23:33Mark 9:43Mark 9:45Mark 9:47Luke 12:5James 3:6
• The R. V. has introduced "Hades," the word found in the Greek text, which signifies the unseen world, in the following scripturesMatthew 11:23Matthew 16:18Luke 10:15Luke 16:23Acts 2:27Acts 2:31Revelation 1:18Revelation 6:8Revelation 20:13Revelation 20:14
• THE FUTURE HOME OF THE WICKED Jude 1:6-23Psalms 9:17Proverbs 5:5Proverbs 9:13Proverbs 9:15–18Proverbs 15:24Proverbs 23:13Proverbs 23:14Isaiah 30:33Isaiah 33:14Matthew 3:12Matthew 5:29Matthew 5:30Matthew 7:13Matthew 7:14Matthew 8:11Matthew 8:12Matthew 10:28Matthew 13:30Matthew 13:38–42Matthew 13:49
• See Wicked, Punishment of

The passages, in Bible order (113)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 37:35

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

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   “All his sons and all his daughters - He had only one daughter, Dinah; but his sons’ wives may be here included. But what hypocrisy in his sons to attempt to comfort him concerning the death of a son who they knew was alive; and what cruelty to put their aged father to such torture, when, properly speaking, there was no ground for it!

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2. Genesis 42:38

   But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If any harm comes to him on your journey, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.”

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   “He is left alone - That is, Benjamin is the only remaining son of Rachel; for he supposed Joseph, who was the other son, to be dead. Shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow - Here he keeps up the idea of the oppressive burden mentioned Gen 42:36, to which every occurrence was adding an additional weight, so that he felt it impossible to support it any longer.

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3. Genesis 44:29

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

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   “And if ye take this also from me,.... His son Benjamin, as he perhaps suspected they had taken Joseph, and made away with him: and mischief befall him; either in Egypt, or on the road, going or returning, any ill accident, especially death, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, or what may issue in it: ye shall bring my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave; it would be the means of his death, and while he lived he should be full of sorrow and grief; see Gen 42:38.

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4. Genesis 44:31

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

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5. Deuteronomy 32:22

   For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 32:221 voice

   “The lowest hell - שאול תחתית sheol tachtith, the very deepest destruction; a total extermination, so that the earth - their land, and its increase, and all their property, should be seized; and the foundations of their mountains - their strongest fortresses, should be razed to the ground. All this was fulfilled in a most remarkable manner in the last destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, so that of the fortifications of that city not one stone was left on another. See the notes on Matthew 24 (note).

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6. 1 Samuel 2:6

   The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.

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   “Certainly his making alive is to take place after he has killed. As, therefore, it is by death that he kills, it is by the resurrection that he will make alive. Now it is the flesh which is killed by death; the flesh, therefore, will be revived by the resurrection. Surely if killing means taking away life from the flesh, and its opposite, reviving, amounts to restoring life to the flesh, it must needs be that the flesh rise again, to which the life, which has been taken away by killing, has to be restored by vivification.

   “The Lord killeth - God is the arbiter of life and death; he only can give life, and he only has a right to take it away. He bringeth down to the grave - The Hebrew word שאול sheol, which we translate grave, seems to have the same meaning in the Old Testament with ἁδης, hades in the New, which is the word generally used by the Septuagint for the other. It means the grave, the state of the dead, and the invisible place, or place of separate spirits.

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7. 2 Samuel 22:6

   The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.

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8. 1 Kings 2:6

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

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   “[David] orders Solomon to punish [Joab], not out of viciousness or hatred for him but because he knew that he was wicked and that, if he had acted with hostility against him who was a mature man, he would act even worse against a young …

   “Let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace - It would have been an insult to justice not to have taken the life of Joab. David was culpable in delaying it so long; but probably the circumstances of his government would not admit of his doing it sooner. According to the law of God, Joab, having murdered Abner and Amasa, should die. And had not David commanded Solomon to perform this act of justice, he could not have died in the approbation of his Maker.

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9. 1 Kings 9:1

   Now when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and had achieved all that he had desired to do,

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   “And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the Lord,.... Which was done in seven years, 1Ki 6:38. and the king's house; his own palace, which was finished in thirteen years, 1Ki 7:1, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do; all his other buildings, the house for Pharaoh's daughter, the house of the forest of Lebanon, and may include his vineyards, gardens, orchards, and pools of water, made for his pleasure, Ecc 2:4 in which he succeeded and prospered, 2Ch 7:11.

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10. Job 7:9

    As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.

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    “As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away - This image is taken from the light and fleecy clouds, which become smaller and smaller until they wholly vanish. For an illustration of a similar phrase, see the notes at Isa 44:22. To the grave - - שׁאול she'ôl. Septuagint, εἰς ᾅδην eis hadēn, to Hades. The word may mean grave, or the place of departed spirits; see Isa 5:14, note; Isa 14:9, note; compare the notes at Job 10:21-22. Either signification will apply here. Shall come up no more - Shall no more live on the earth.

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11. Job 11:8

    They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?

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    “He is higher than heaven, what canst thou do? Deeper than hell, what canst thou know? His measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. In that God is set forth as 'higher than heaven,' 'deeper than hell,' 'longer than the earth,' and 'broader than the sea,' this must be understood in a spiritual sense, inasmuch as it is impious to conceive any thing concerning Him after the proportions of body. Now He is 'higher than heaven,' in that He transcends all things by the Incomprehensibility of His spiritual Nature.

    “It is as high as heaven - High as the heavens, what canst thou work? Deep below sheol, (the invisible world), what canst thou know? Long beyond the earth, and broad beyond the sea, is its measure. These are instances in the immensity of created things, and all out of the reach of human power and knowledge; and if these things are so, how incomprehensible must he be, who designed, created, preserves, and governs the whole! We find the same thought in Milton: - “These are thy glorious works, Parent of good! Almighty! Thine this universal frame: How wondrous fair!

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12. Job 14:13

    If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!

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    “Ver. 13. O that Thou wouldest defend me in hell! That before the coming of the Mediator between God and man, every person, though he might have been of a pure and approved life, descended to the prisons of hell, there can be no doubt; in that man, who fell by his own act, was unable by his own act to return to the rest of Paradise, except that He should come, Who by the mystery of His Incarnation should open the way into that same Paradise.

    “Oh that thou wouldest hide me in the grave; - compare the notes at Job 3:11 ff. Hebrew “in Sheol” - ב־שׁאול bı̂-she'ôl. Vulgate, “in inferno.” Septuagint ἐν ἅδῃ en Hadē - “in Hades.” On the meaning of the word “Sheol,” see the notes at Isa 5:14. It does not mean here, I think, the grave. It means the region of departed spirits, the place of the dead, where he wished to be, until the tempest of the wrath of God should pass by.

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13. Job 17:13

    If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

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    “Ver. 13. If I wait, hell is mine house; and I have made my bed in the darkness. For the former Saints could undergo adversity, and yet could not, when brought out of the body, be at once freed from the regions of hell; in that He had not yet come, Who should descend thereinto without sin, that He might set free those, who were there bound by right of sin.

    “If I wait - Or more accurately, “truly I expect that the grave will be my home.” The word rendered “if” (אם 'ı̂m) is often used in such a sense. The meaning is, “I look certainly to the grave as my home. I have made up my mind to it, and have no other expectation.” The grave - Hebrew שׁאול she'ôl. It may mean here either the grave, or the region of departed spirits, to which he expected soon to descend. Mine house - My home; my permanent abode.

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14. Job 21:13

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

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    They spend their days in wealth,.... Or "in good" (p); not in the performance of good works, or in the exercise of that which is spiritually good; or in seeking after spiritual good things, or eternal happiness; but in earthly good, in the enjoyment of the temporal good things of this life, and which to enjoy in a moderate and becoming manner is not criminal, but commendable; but these men, and such as they, seek no other good but worldly good; their language is, "who will show us any good?"

    “They spend their days in wealth - Margin, or, “mirth.” Literally, “they wear out their days in good” - בטוב baṭôb. Vulgate “in bonis.” Septuagint, ἐν ἀγαθοῖς en agathois - “in good things;” in the enjoyment of good. They are not oppressed with the evils of poverty and want, but they have abundance of “the good things” of life. And in a moment go down to the grave - Hebrew to שׁאול she'ôl - but here meaning evidently the grave.

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15. Job 24:19

    As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.

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    “Drought and heat consume the snow-waters - Margin, “violently take;” see the notes at Job 6:17. The word rendered “consume,” and in the margin “violently take” (יגזלו yı̂gâzelû), means properly to strip off, as skin from the flesh; and then to pluck or tear away by force; to strip, to spoil, to rob. The meaning here is, that the heat seems to seize and carry away the snow waters - to bear them off, as a plunderer does spoil. There is much poetic beauty in this image.

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16. Job 26:6

    Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

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    “Hell is naked before Him, and destruction hath no covering. Which same Paul likewise saith, But all things are naked and opened unto His eyes. But by the title of 'hell' and 'perdition' he denoted the devil and all the associates of his condemnation; but Who that One is before whom 'hell is naked,' he goes on with telling.

    “Hell is naked before him - Sheol, the place of the dead, or of separate spirits, is always in his view. And there is no covering to Abaddon - the place of the destroyer, where destruction reigns, and where those dwell who are eternally separated from God. The ancients thought that hell or Tartarus was a vast space in the center, or at the very bottom of the earth.

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