They called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them.”
Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.
Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
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.
The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone.
You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.
Because he has despised Yahweh’s word, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off. His iniquity shall be on him.’”
But if Yahweh makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up, with all that belong to them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.”
So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol. The earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.
All Israel that were around them fled at their cry; for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”
Yahweh will strike you with madness, with blindness, and with astonishment of heart.
so that the sights that you see with your eyes will drive you mad.
You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you.
so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left to him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in all your gates.
Among these nations you will find no ease, and there will be no rest for the sole of your foot; but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and pining of soul.
and that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath;
For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.
They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.
Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth Peor, but no man knows where his tomb is to this day.
The border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the side of the Jebusite (also called Jerusalem) southward; and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lies before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the farthest part of the valley of Rephaim northward.
The border went down to the farthest part of the mountain that lies before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the valley of Rephaim northward. It went down to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite southward, and went down to En Rogel.
“Yahweh kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.
Then the woman said, “Whom shall I bring up to you?” He said, “Bring Samuel up for me.”
He said to her, “What does he look like?” She said, “An old man comes up. He is covered with a robe.” Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground, and showed respect.
Moreover Yahweh will deliver Israel also with you into the hand of the Philistines; and tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. Yahweh will deliver the army of Israel also into the hand of the Philistines.”
Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “Mark now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine; and when I tell you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I commanded you? Be courageous, and be valiant!”
The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me.
Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.
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.”
Elijah answered them, “If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty!” Then God’s fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.
Behold, fire came down from the sky, and consumed the last two captains of fifty with their fifties. But now let my life be precious in your sight.”
So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him;’ and she has hidden her son.”
Moreover he burned incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burned his children in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.
He sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards. He did much evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.
Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”
Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.
As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.
Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.
Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.
There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.
“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.
He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,
Those who hate you shall be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked shall be no more.”
before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’”
They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?
But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. They shall have no way to flee. Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit.”
He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.
so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.
“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!
He doesn’t believe that he shall return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.
He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
If I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father;’ to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘my sister;’
Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”
“Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.
The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.
A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.
A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him on the path.
Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.
His strength shall be famished. Calamity shall be ready at his side.
The members of his body shall be devoured. The firstborn of death shall devour his members.
He shall be rooted out of the security of his tent. He shall be brought to the king of terrors.
His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch be cut off.
His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, ‘Where is he?’
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.
The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more see him.
yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.
He shall suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue shall kill him.
He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter.
He shall flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow shall strike him through.
He draws it out, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him.
All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.
The increase of his house shall depart. They shall rush away in the day of his wrath.
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God.”
They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.
For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.
The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. Unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.
“The departed spirits tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
“This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.
For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.
Man doesn’t know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.
Destruction and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’