30 But (A)if the Lord [a]brings about an entirely new thing and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that is theirs, and they (B)descend alive into [b]Sheol, then you will understand that these men have spurned the Lord.”

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  1. Numbers 16:30 Lit creates a new creation
  2. Numbers 16:30 I.e. the nether world

33 So they and all that belonged to them went down alive to [a]Sheol; and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.

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  1. Numbers 16:33 I.e. the nether world

But those who (A)seek my [a]life to destroy it,
Will go into the [b](B)depths of the earth.

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  1. Psalm 63:9 Lit soul
  2. Psalm 63:9 Lit lowest places

20 then I will bring you down with those who (A)go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the (B)lower parts of the earth, like the ancient waste places, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not [a]be inhabited; but I will set (C)glory in the land of the living.

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  1. Ezekiel 26:20 Or return

18 “To which among the trees of Eden are you thus [a]equal in glory and greatness? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the earth beneath; you will lie in the midst of the (A)uncircumcised, with those who were slain by the sword. (B)So is Pharaoh and all his hordes!”’ declares the Lord God.”

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  1. Ezekiel 31:18 Lit like

24 (A)Elam is there and all her hordes around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised to the (B)lower parts of the earth, who instilled their terror in the (C)land of the living and (D)bore their disgrace with those who went down to the pit.

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“Though they dig into (A)Sheol,
From there will My hand take them;
And though they (B)ascend to heaven,
From there will I bring them down.

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and he said,

“I (A)called out of my distress to the Lord,
And He answered me.
I cried for help from the [a]depth of (B)Sheol;
You heard my voice.

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  1. Jonah 2:2 Lit belly

“I (A)descended to the roots of the mountains.
The earth with its (B)bars was around me forever,
But You have (C)brought up my life from [a]the pit, O Lord my God.

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  1. Jonah 2:6 Or corruption

(Now this expression, “He (A)ascended,” what [a]does it mean except that He also [b]had descended into (B)the lower parts of the earth?

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  1. Ephesians 4:9 Lit is it except
  2. Ephesians 4:9 One early ms reads had first descended