When we therefore appeal to "this evidence" we are not making an appeal to prejudice, referring to three
or four carefully selected passages; and, moreover, although we refer you, dear reader, to 76 references
instead of three, we refrain from saying that you will be a deliberate deceiver if you do not endorse what
we have put forward. We desire for ourselves as for you, the truth, and that is found alone in the Word of
God. Again we would ask the reader to notice our bias! We have given 65 references in the Old
Testament and only 11 in the New. Does this prove that we are to be regarded with suspicion? At any
rate when we make our appeal to "this evidence", none can call our motives in question.
In each reference the English word used to translate the Hebrew sheol or the Greek hades is underlined.
A concordance to the word sheol.
Gen. 37:35
Psa. 16:10
Prov. 23:14
Gen. 42:38
Psa. 18:5
Prov. 27:20
Gen. 44:29,31
Psa. 30:3
Prov. 30:16
Num. 16:30,33
Psa. 31:17
Eccles. 9:10
Deut. 32:22
Psa. 49:14,14,15
Song. 8:6
1 Sam. 2:6
Psa. 55:15
Isa. 5:14
2 Sam. 22:6
Psa. 86:13
Isa. 14:9,11,15
1 Kings 2:6,9
Psa. 88:3
Isa. 28:15,18
Job 7: 9
Psa. 89:48
Isa. 38:10,18
Job 11:8
Psa. 116:3
Isa. 57:9
Job 14:13
Psa. 139:8
Ezek. 31:15,16,17
Job 17:13,16
Psa. 141:7
Ezek. 32:21,27
Job 21:13
Prov. 1:12
Hos. 13:14,14
Job 24:19
Prov. 5:5
Amos 9:2
Job 26: 6
Prov. 7: 27
Jonah 2:2
Psa. 6: 5
Prov. 9: 18
Hab. 2:5
Psa. 9:17
Prov. 15:11,24
"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" (Gen.
37:35).
"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" (Gen. 42:38).
"And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow
to the grave" (Gen. 44:29).
"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" (Gen. 44:31).
"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" (Num. 16:30).
"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" (Num. 16:33).
"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" (Deut. 32:22).
"The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up" (1 Sam. 2:6).
"The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me" (2 Sam. 22:6).
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