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Bible Verses About Sheol
63 Scriptures on Sheol

1 Kings 2:6

Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don't let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.

1 Kings 2:9

Now therefore don't hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood."

1 Samuel 2:6

"the LORD kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.

2 Samuel 22:6

The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me.

Amos 9:2

Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.

Deuteronomy 32:22

For a fire is kindled in my anger, Burns to the lowest Sheol, Devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

Ezekiel 31:15

Thus says the Lord the LORD: In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained its rivers; and the great waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

Ezekiel 31:16

I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth.

Ezekiel 31:17

They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, [that] lived under his shadow in the midst of the nations.

Ezekiel 32:21

The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of Sheol with those who help him: they are gone down, they lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.

Ezekiel 32:27

They shall not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who are gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are on their bones; for [they were] the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

Genesis 37:35

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. He said, "For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning." His father wept for him.

Genesis 42:38

He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."

Genesis 44:29

If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.'

Genesis 44:31

it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.

Habakkuk 2:5

Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn't stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can't be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.

Hosea 13:14

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol. I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? "Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.

Isaiah 14:11

Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.

Isaiah 14:15

Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.

Isaiah 14:9

Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the dead for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

Isaiah 28:15

"Because you have said, 'We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won't come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.'"

Isaiah 28:18

Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down by it.

Isaiah 38:10

I said, "In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years."

Isaiah 38:18

For Sheol can't praise you. Death can't celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can't hope for your truth.

Isaiah 5:14

Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.

Isaiah 57:9

You went to the king with oil, and did increase your perfumes, and did send your ambassadors far off, and debased yourself even to Sheol.

Job 11:8

They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

Job 14:13

"Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

Job 17:13

If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

Job 17:16

Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?"

Job 21:13

They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

Job 24:19

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

Job 26:6

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

Job 7:9

As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.

Jonah 2:2

He said, "I called because of my affliction to the LORD. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

Numbers 16:30

But if the LORD make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have despised the LORD."

Numbers 16:33

So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol: and the earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.

Proverbs 1:12

let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

Proverbs 15:11

Sheol and Abaddon are before the LORD-- how much more then the hearts of the children of men!

Proverbs 15:24

The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

Proverbs 23:14

Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.


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