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Want to know what the Bible says about Sheol? Here are 14 Bible verses about Sheol from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Ecclesiastes 9:10 NIV
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.
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Psalm 16:10 NIV
because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead,
    nor will you let your faithful one see decay.
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Psalm 55:15 NIV
Let death take my enemies by surprise;
    let them go down alive to the realm of the dead,
    for evil finds lodging among them.
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Jonah 2:2 NIV
He said:
“In my distress I called to the Lord,
    and he answered me.
From deep in the realm of the dead I called for help,
    and you listened to my cry.
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Luke 16:23 NIV
In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side.
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Psalm 86:13 NIV
For great is your love toward me;
    you have delivered me from the depths,
    from the realm of the dead.
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Hosea 13:14 NIV
“I will deliver this people from the power of the grave;
    I will redeem them from death.
Where, O death, are your plagues?
    Where, O grave, is your destruction?
“I will have no compassion,
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Job 14:13 NIV
“If only you would hide me in the grave
    and conceal me till your anger has passed!
If only you would set me a time
    and then remember me!
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Genesis 37:35 NIV
All his sons and daughters came to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said, “I will continue to mourn until I join my son in the grave. ” So his father wept for him.
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Psalm 6:5 NIV
Among the dead no one proclaims your name.
    Who praises you from the grave?
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Acts 2:31 NIV
Seeing what was to come, he spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah, that he was not abandoned to the realm of the dead, nor did his body see decay.
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Job 7:9 NIV
As a cloud vanishes and is gone,
    so one who goes down to the grave does not return.
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Amos 9:2 NIV
Though they dig down to the depths below,
    from there my hand will take them.
Though they climb up to the heavens above,
    from there I will bring them down.
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Acts 2:27 NIV
because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead,
    you will not let your holy one see decay.
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