Sheol / The Grave

“The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence.”

“For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:”

“Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?”

“Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.”

“In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.”

“For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.”

“Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?”

“The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.”

“Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.”

“Have mercy upon me, O Lord; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:”

“Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.”

“And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.”

“All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.”

“Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.”

“Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.”

“He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.”

“For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.”

“The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.”

“And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that were with him.”

“Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, was it which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with them that were slain.”

“Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the Lord.”

“When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;”

“They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.”

“To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.”

“Thus saith the Lord God; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.”

“I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.”

“O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!”

“If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.”

“They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.”

“They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.”

“Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.”

“Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.”

“Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.”

“He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.”

“Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.”

“Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.”

“He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.”

“To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.”

“For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?”

“The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.”

“Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.”

“O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.”

“Let me not be ashamed, O Lord; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.”

“Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.”

“But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.”

“But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.”

“Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.”

“For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.”

“I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:”

“Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.”

“Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?”

“What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.”

“That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.”

“Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.”

“Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.”

“Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:”

“A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.”

“Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.”

“Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.”

“Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.”

“Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.”

“But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.”

“Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.”

“And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.”

“And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.”

“And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.”

“I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.”

“For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.”

“Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.”

“The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.”

“And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.”

“He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the Lord.”

“Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.”

“There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.”

“They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain.”

“There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.”

“There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.”

“I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.”

“The Jews then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave to weep there.”

“Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.”

“The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record.”

“And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.”

“Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.”

“Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.”

“Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?”

“Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.”

“As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.”

“I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.”

“What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?”

“Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.”

“And the Lord hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.”

“Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already.”

“O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?”

“That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.”

“And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel’s grave unto this day.”

“And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.”

“Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.”

“And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.”

“And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.”

“And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.”

“And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.”

“It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.”

“My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.”

“The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.”

“And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:”

“And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.”

“But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord.”

“They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.”

“And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.”

“And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:”

“The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.”

“As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.”

“And they buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.”

“Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.”

“Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.”

“Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood.”

“And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!”

“And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the Lord God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.”

“And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit of the shearing house, even two and forty men; neither left he any of them.”

“Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.”

“Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.”

“The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.”

“Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;”

“Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.”

“Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.”

“Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.”

“The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.”

“Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:”

“And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.”

“But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.”

“Hell and destruction are before the Lord: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?”

“The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.”

“Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.”

“And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.”

“It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?”

“And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.”

“The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.”

“If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.”

“And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.”

“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.”

“And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.”

“They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.”

“And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:”

“Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.”

“And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:”

“And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:”

“Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.”

“For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;”

“Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.”

“And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.”

“And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.”

“Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.”

“I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.”

“But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.”

“And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.”

“The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.”

“The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.”

“And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.”

“And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.”

“And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.”

“Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:”

“And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.”

“Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.”

“And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”

“And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.”

“For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.”

“For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.”

“Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:”

“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.”

“Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?”

“And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell.”

“The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;”

“But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.”