Bible Verses About The Abode Of The Dead

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.

Shows Sheol as a place that stirs up the dead to meet the living.

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

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

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

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

Strong background on Sheol and the dead not praising God.

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.

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

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For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

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

Shows an early wisdom text with the dead in the depths of Sheol.

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.

Clear Sheol language about death and the upright in the morning.

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

Direct Sheol descent language.

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

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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.

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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.

Direct Bible text saying Death and Hades give up the dead for judgment.

Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?

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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.

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Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.

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For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

Bible text used by early writers to explain preaching to the dead.

Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)

Bible passage often used for descent language in early Christian teaching.

Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

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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.

Describes the dead as lying in the grave, useful background for the topic.

Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

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They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

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Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

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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.

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The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.

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For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

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

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And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

Supports the shared resurrection of just and unjust after death.

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

One of the clearer Wisdom sayings about the assembly of the dead.

And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,

Resurrection passage often paired with descent and victory themes.

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

Supports the idea of the grave as a place of silence, but less direct.

And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,

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But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

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

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