Job 17:16
16Will it go down to the bars of aSheol?Shall we bdescend together cinto the dust?”
Job 33:18
18he keeps back his soul from the pit,his life from dperishing by the sword.
Job 33:24
24and he is merciful to him, and says,‘Deliver him from going down into the pit;
I have found ea ransom;
Psalms 55:23
23 But you, O God, fwill cast them downinto gthe pit of destruction;
men of hblood and treachery
shall not ilive out half their days.
But I will jtrust in you.
Psalms 69:15
15Let not the flood sweep over me,or the deep swallow me up,
or kthe pit close lits mouth over me.
Isaiah 38:17-18
17 mBehold, it was for my welfarethat I had great bitterness;
nbut in love you have delivered my life
from the pit of destruction,
ofor you have cast all my sins
behind your back.
18 pFor Sheol does not thank you;
death does not praise you;
those who go down to the pit do not hope
for your faithfulness.
Revelation of John 20:1-3
The Thousand Years
1Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, qholding in his hand the key to rthe bottomless pit ▼▼Greek the abyss; also verse 3
and a great chain. 2And he seized tthe dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and ubound him for a thousand years, 3and threw him into vthe pit, and shut it and wsealed it over him, so that xhe might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while.
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