NAU Genesis 37:35 Then all his sons and all his daughters arose to comfort him,
but he refused to be comforted. And he said, "Surely I will go down to Sheol
in mourning for my son." So his father wept for him.
NAU Genesis 42:38 But Jacob said, "My son shall not go down with you; for
his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If harm should befall him on the
journey you are taking, then you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol
in sorrow."
NAU Genesis 44:29 'If you take this one also from me, and harm befalls him, you
will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.'
31
when he sees that the lad is not with us, he will die. Thus your servants will
bring the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.
NAU Numbers 16:30 "But if the LORD brings about an entirely new thing and
the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that is theirs, and
they descend alive into Sheol, then you will understand that these men have
spurned the LORD."
33
So they and all that belonged to them went down alive to Sheol;
and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the
assembly.
NAU Deuteronomy 32:22 For a fire is kindled in My anger, And burns to the
lowest part of Sheol, And consumes the earth with its yield, And sets on fire
the foundations of the mountains.
NAU 1 Samuel 2:6 "The LORD kills and makes alive; He brings down to Sheol
and raises up.
NAU 2 Samuel 22:6 The cords of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death
confronted me.
NAU 1 Kings 2:6 "So act according to your wisdom, and do not let his gray
hair go down to Sheol in peace.
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"Now therefore, do not let him go unpunished, for you are a wise man; and
you will know what you ought to do to him, and you will bring his gray hair
down to Sheol
with blood."
NAU Job 7:9 "When a cloud vanishes, it is gone, So he who goes down to Sheol
does not come up.
NAU Job 11:8 "They are high as the heavens, what can you do? Deeper than Sheol,
what can you know?
NAU Job 14:13 "Oh that You would hide me in Sheol, That You would conceal
me until Your wrath returns to You, That You would set a limit for me and
remember me!
NAU Job 17:13 "If I look for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the
darkness;
16
"Will it go down with me to Sheol? Shall we together go down into the
dust?"
NAU Job 21:13 "They spend their days in prosperity, And suddenly they go
down to Sheol.
NAU Job 24:19 "Drought and heat consume the snow waters, So does Sheol
those who have sinned.
NAU Job 26:6 "Naked is Sheol before Him, And Abaddon has no covering.
NAU Psalm 6:5 For there is no mention of You in death; In Sheol
who will give You thanks?
NAU Psalm 9:17 The wicked will return to Sheol, Even all the nations who
forget God.
NAU Psalm 16:10 For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol; Nor will You
allow Your Holy One to undergo decay.
NAU Psalm 18:5 The cords of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death confronted
me.
NAU Psalm 30:3 O LORD, You have brought up my soul from Sheol; You have kept me
alive, that I would not go down to the pit.
NAU Psalm 31:17 Let me not be put to shame, O LORD, for I call upon You; Let
the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol.
NAU Psalm 49:14 As sheep they are appointed for Sheol; Death shall be their
shepherd; And the upright shall rule over them in the morning, And their form
shall be for Sheol to consume So that they have no habitation.
15
But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, For He will receive me.
Selah.
NAU Psalm 55:15 Let death come deceitfully upon them; Let them go down alive to
Sheol,
For evil is in their dwelling, in their midst.
NAU Psalm 86:13 For Your lovingkindness toward me is great, And You have
delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.
NAU Psalm 88:3 For my soul has had enough troubles, And my life has drawn near
to Sheol.
NAU Psalm 89:48 What man can live and not see death? Can he deliver his soul
from the power of Sheol? Selah.
NAU Psalm 116:3 The cords of death encompassed me And the terrors of Sheol
came upon me; I found distress and sorrow.
NAU Psalm 139:8 If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol,
behold, You are there.
NAU Psalm 141:7 As when one plows and breaks open the earth, Our bones have
been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
NAU Proverbs 1:12 Let us swallow them alive like Sheol, Even whole, as those who
go down to the pit;
NAU Proverbs 5:5 Her feet go down to death, Her steps take hold of Sheol.
NAU Proverbs 7:27 Her house is the way to Sheol, Descending to the
chambers of death.
NAU Proverbs 9:18 But he does not know that the dead are there, That her guests
are in the depths of Sheol.
NAU Proverbs 15:11 Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the LORD, How much
more the hearts of men!
24
The path of life leads upward for the wise That he may keep away from Sheol
below.
NAU Proverbs 23:14 You shall strike him with the rod And rescue his soul from Sheol.
NAU Proverbs 27:20 Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, Nor are the
eyes of man ever satisfied.
NAU Proverbs 30:16 Sheol, and the barren womb, Earth that is never
satisfied with water, And fire that never says, "Enough."
NAU Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your
might; for there is no activity or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol
where you are going.
NAU Song of Solomon 8:6 "Put me like a seal over your heart, Like a seal
on your arm. For love is as strong as death, Jealousy is as severe as Sheol;
Its flashes are flashes of fire, The very flame of the LORD.
NAU Isaiah 5:14 Therefore Sheol has enlarged its throat and opened its mouth
without measure; And Jerusalem's splendor, her multitude, her din of revelry
and the jubilant within her, descend into it.
NAU Isaiah 7:11 "Ask a sign for yourself from the LORD your God; make it
deep as Sheol
or high as heaven."
NAU Isaiah 14:9 "Sheol from beneath is excited over you to meet you
when you come; It arouses for you the spirits of the dead, all the leaders of
the earth; It raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones.
11
'Your pomp and the music of your harps Have been brought down to Sheol;
Maggots are spread out as your bed beneath you And worms are your covering.'
15
"Nevertheless you will be thrust down to Sheol, To the recesses of the
pit.
NAU Isaiah 28:15 Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with
death, And with Sheol we have made a pact. The overwhelming scourge will not
reach us when it passes by, For we have made falsehood our refuge and we have
concealed ourselves with deception."
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"Your covenant with death will be canceled, And your pact with Sheol
will not stand; When the overwhelming scourge passes through, Then you become
its trampling place.
NAU Isaiah 38:10 I said, "In the middle of my life I am to enter the gates
of Sheol;
I am to be deprived of the rest of my years."
18
"For Sheol
cannot thank You, Death cannot praise You; Those who go down to the pit cannot
hope for Your faithfulness.
NAU Isaiah 57:9 "You have journeyed to the king with oil And increased
your perfumes; You have sent your envoys a great distance And made them go down
to Sheol.
NAU Ezekiel 31:15 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "On the day when it went down
to Sheol
I caused lamentations; I closed the deep over it and held back its rivers. And
its many waters were stopped up, and I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees
of the field wilted away on account of it.
16
"I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall when I made it go down
to Sheol
with those who go down to the pit; and all the well-watered trees of Eden, the
choicest and best of Lebanon, were comforted in the earth beneath.
17
"They also went down with it to Sheol to those who were slain by the sword;
and those who were its strength lived under its shade among the nations.
NAU Ezekiel 32:21 "The strong among the mighty ones shall speak of him and
his helpers from the midst of Sheol, 'They have gone down, they lie still,
the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.'
27
"Nor do they lie beside the fallen heroes of the uncircumcised, who went
down to Sheol
with their weapons of war and whose swords were laid under their heads; but the
punishment for their iniquity rested on their bones, though the terror of these
heroes was once in the land of the living.
NAU Hosea 13:14 Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem
them from death? O Death, where are your thorns? O Sheol, where is your
sting? Compassion will be hidden from My sight.
NAU Amos 9:2 "Though they dig into Sheol, From there will My hand
take them; And though they ascend to heaven, From there will I bring them down.
NAU Jonah 2:2 and he said, "I called out of my distress to the LORD, And
He answered me. I cried for help from the depth of Sheol; You heard my
voice.
NAU Habakkuk 2:5 "Furthermore, wine betrays the haughty man, So that he
does not stay at home. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, And he is like
death, never satisfied. He also gathers to himself all nations And collects to
himself all peoples.
Gen. 37:35; 42:38; 44:29, 31; Num. 16:30, 33; Deut. 32:22; 1
Sam. 2:6; 2 Sam. 22:6; 1 Kgs 2:6, 9; Job 7:9; 11:8; 14:13; 17:13, 16; 21:13;
24:19; 26:6; Psa. 6:5; 9:17; 16:10; 18:5; 30:3; 31:17; 49:14f; 55:15; 86:13;
88:3; 89:48; 116:3; 139:8; 141:7; Prov. 1:12; 5:5; 7:27; 9:18; 15:11, 24;
23:14; 27:20; 30:16; Eccl. 9:10; Song 8:6; Isa. 5:14; 7:11; 14:9, 11, 15;
28:15, 18; 38:10, 18; 57:9; Ezek. 31:15ff; 32:21, 27; Hos. 13:14; Amos 9:2;
Jonah 2:2; Hab. 2:5
Two verse have the term used twice (Psa 49:14, Hosea 13:14)
One verse, in the NASB has Sheol when the Hebrew is a different term in the BHS, yet it has
the same consonants so it is a possible variant. Job 33:18
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