Genesis 37:35. — “I will go down into the grave unto my son.”

Genesis 42:38. — “Then shall  ye  bring  down  my  gray  hairs  with  sorrow  to the grave.” [See also the same expression 44:29,31. The translators did not like to send God’s servant, Jacob, to hell simply because his sons were evil.]

1 Samuel 2:6. — “The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.”

1 Kings 2:6,9. — “Let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace His

hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood.”

Job 7:9. — “He that goeth down to the grave.”

Job 14:13. — “O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me [resurrect me]!”

Job 17:13. — “If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.” [Job waits for resurrection — “in the morning.”]

Job 17:16. — “They shall go down to the bars of the pit [grave], when our rest together is in the dust.”

Job 21:13. — “They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.”

Job  24:19,20.  —  “Drought  and  heat  consume  the  snow  waters:  so  doth the grave those which have sinned.” [All have sinned, hence “Death passed upon all men,” and all go down to the grave. But all have been redeemed by “the precious blood of Christ”; hence all shall be awakened and come forth again in God’s due time — “in the morning,” Rom. 5:12,18,19.]

Psalms 6:5. — “In death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?”

Psalms 30:3. — “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.” [This passage expresses gratitude for recovery from danger of death.]

Psalms 31:17. — “Let the wicked be ashamed, let them be silent in the grave.”

Psalms 49:14,15, margin. — “Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright [the saints — Dan. 7:27] shall have dominion over them in the morning [the Millennial morning]; and their beauty shall consume, the grave being an habitation to every one of them. But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave.”

Psalms 88:3. — “My life draweth nigh unto the grave.”

Psalms 89:48. — “Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave?”

Psalms 141:7. — “Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth.”

Proverbs 1:12. — “Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit” [i.e., as an earthquake, as in Num. 16:30-33].

Proverbs 30:15,16. — “Four things say not, It is enough: the grave,” etc.

Ecclesiastes 9:10. — “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.”

Song of Solomon 8:6. — “Jealousy is cruel as the grave.”

Isaiah 14:11. — “Thy pomp is brought down to the grave.”

Isaiah 38:10. — “I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.”

Isaiah 38:18. — “The grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.”

Numbers 16:30-33. — “If . . . they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand. . . . The ground clave asunder that was under them: and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. 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.”

Ezekiel 31:15. — “In the day when he went down to the grave.”

Hosea 13:14. — “I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.” [The Lord did not ransom any from a place of fire and torment, for there is no such place; but he did ransom all mankind from the grave, from death, the penalty brought upon all by Adam’s sin, as this verse declares.]

The above list includes every instance of the use of the English word “hell” and the Hebrew word sheol in the Old Testament. From this examination it must be evident to all readers that God’s revelations for four thousand years contain not a single hint of a “hell” such as the word is now understood to signify.