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Appendix 5

Sheol in the Old Testament

The word sheol occurs only 65 times in the Old Testament, as follows:

Sheol

Deut: 32:22

1 Sam: 2:6

2 Sam: 22:6

1 Kings: 2:6, 9

Isa: 5:14; 14:9, 11, 15; 28:15, 18; 38:10, 18; 57:9

Ezek: 32:21, 27

Hosea: 13:14 (2x)

Jonah: 2:3

Psa: 18:6; 30:4; 49:15, 16; 55:16; 89:49; 116:3; 139:8; 141:7

Prov: 5:5; 7:27; 9:18; 15:11; 27:20; 30:16

Job: 7:9; 17:13, 16; 21:13; 24:19; 26:6

In Sheol

Amos: 9:2

Psa: 6:6

Job: 14:13

Ecc: 9:10

Like Sheol

Hab: 2:5

Prov: 1:12

Song: 8:6

To Sheol

Psa: 16:10; 31:18; 49:15; 88:4

From Sheol

Psa: 86:13

Prov: 15:24; 23:14

Job: 11:8

Toward Sheol

Gen: 37:35; 42:38; 44:29, 31

Num: 16:30, 33

Ezek: 31:15, 16, 17

Psa: 9:18

Rest With/ Gathered To His Fathers

Gen: 15:15; 47:30; 49:29

Jud: 2:10

2 Sam: 7:12

1 Kings: 1:21; 2:10; 11:21, 43; 14:20, 31; 15:8, 24; 16:6, 28; 22:40, 50

2 Kings: 8:24; 10:35; 13:9, 13; 14:16, 22, 29; 15:7, 22, 38; 16:20; 20:21; 21:18; 22:20; 24:6

1 Chron: 17:11

2 Chron: 9:31; 12:16; 14:1; 16:13; 21:1: 25:28; 26:2, 23; 27:9; 28:27; 32:33; 33:20; 34:28

Gathered To His People

Gen: 35:29; 49:29, 33

Num: 20:24, 26; 27:13; 31:2

Deut: 32:50

Jud: 2:10


From the theology book by R.P. Nettelhorst, Does God Have a Long Nose?


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