alive, that I should not go down into the pit." Ps. 30:2, 3; see also 86:13; Prov.
23:14. He also shows that all men must die, and that no man can deliver his soul
from sheol. Ps. 89:48.
15. The sorrows of hell, three times mentioned by the psalmist, are, as shown
by the connection, the pangs which precede or lead to death. 2 Sam. 22:5-7; Ps.
18:4-6; 116:1-9. They are, in each case, experienced by the righteous. The
cruelty of sheol is there morseless
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power with which it swallows up all mankind. Cant. 8:6; Ps. 89:48.
16. Those who go down to sheol must remain there till their resurrection. At
the coming of Christ all the righteous are delivered from sheol. All the living
wicked men are then "turned into sheol," and for one thousand years sheol holds
all wicked men in its dread embrace. Then death and sheol, or hades, deliver up
the wicked dead, and the judgment is executed upon them in the lake of fire.
Compare Job 7:9, 10; 14:12-14; 17:13; 19:25-27; Rev. 20:4-6; 1 Cor. 15:51-55;
Ps. 9:17; Rev. 20:11-15.
17. Sheol, the invisible place or state of the dead, is IN THE EARTH
BENEATH. Though it is rendered grave thirty-one times, it is not the word usually
so rendered in the Old Testament; for it embraces the interior of the earth as the
region of the dead and the place of every grave. Eze. 32:18-32. All the passages
which speak of the location of sheol, or hades, represent it as beneath. It is
always in the interior of the earth; sometimes it is in the nether parts of the earth.
Num. 16:30, 33; Ps. 141:7; Isa. 5:14; 14:9-20; Eze. 31:15-18; 32:18-32. Referring
to the fire now burning, in the heart of the earth, which shall at the last day
swallow up the earth in its fiery gulf, Moses represents the Almighty as saying,
"For the fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest sheol, and
shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the
mountains." Deut. 32:22. Jonah went down into sheol when, in the belly of the
whale, he descended into the depths of the mighty waters, where none but dead
men had ever been. Jonah 2:2. Korah and his company went into sheol alive;
that is, the earth swallowed them up while yet alive. Num. 16.
18. The righteous do not praise God in sheol. Thus David testifies: "In death
there is no remembrance of thee; in sheol who shall give thee thanks?" Ps. 6:5.
And Hezekiah, when delivered from death in answer to
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prayer, expresses the same great truth: "I said in the cutting off of my days, I
shall go to the gates of sheol; I am deprived of the residue of my years. * * * *
Behold, for peace I had great bitterness; but thou hast in love to my SOUL
delivered it from the pit of corruption; for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy
back. For sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee; they that go
down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise
thee, as I do this day; the father to the children shall make known thy truth." Isa.
38:10-19; Ps. 115:17; 146:1-4.
19. The wicked in sheol are silent in death. Thus David prays: "Let the wicked
