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"To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.." -- Isaiah 8:20, New King James Version (79) Proverbs 1:11-15 - If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; Let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause; Let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, And whole, like those who go down into the pit. We'll find all valuable wealth. We'll fill our houses with spoil. You shall cast your lot among us. We'll all have one purse." My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path. Here Solomon warns as a father not to follow those who recruit us in the path of robbery and murder. Such often bring sudden death to their victims, as described in this verse. Such would not only rob, but utterly destroy their victim, in order to get rid of the evidence, leaving only the spoils of this horrendous crime. There is nothing here to support the teaching that sheol has either a compartment of torture or a paradise compartment. (80) Proverbs 5:5 - Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol. Solomon is here speaking of a harlot, a promiscous woman, who entices men into sexual pleasures. "All her doings lead to destruction."* To follows her steps would lead a man straight to sheol, not only figuratively, but, in view of the possibility of sexually-transmitted diseases, to follow her feet could literally bring one into the realm of death, for many of these diseases can cause one to die. Not only this, but if this person is married, death could come at the hands of her husband. ==========
(81) The King James translators, evidently believing that a place of torment is meant here, translated "sheol" here by the word "hell", with the evident desire to leave the impression of the traditional idea of "eternal suffering." In Proverbs 1:12, however, they translated the word "sheol" as "the grave", because it is speaking of the innocent life being taken by the wicked ones. Neither scripture, however, says anything about those in sheol as being either in a paradise of happiness or an inferno of misery. (82) Proverbs 7:27 - Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death. This is a scripture discussing how an adulteress lures a man into her house for immoral purposes. The warning is that to enter her house is the way to realm of death, going down to the bed chambers of death. To enter her bedroom chambers, or parlor, for immoral purposes is the same as going down into death. Sheol is here paralleled with death. (83) Some, reading the expression "chambers" here, wish to read into this the compartment theory, claiming that there are different chambers in sheol, with different places where one goes in death, thus supporting the idea that there is both a paradise and a place of conscience suffering in sheol. Nothing is stated in the scripture about the chambers being anything other death. Also, if we were to accept the word "chambers" as meaning all the alleged compartments of sheol, then the one being lure into fornication would be entering into paradise, purgatory, the inferno, the frigid region, limbo, and any other alleged compartment men have thought up. Actually, there is no support in this verse for the compartment theory of sheol; this theory has be read into what is stated. The word "chambers" is used here in a similar as it is used in Song of Solomon 1:4; Isaiah 26:20. (84) Proverbs 9:18 - But he doesn't know that the dead are there, That her guests are in the depths of Sheol. The one lured by the deceptions of a whore is often ignorant of the fact that to enter into fornication with such a woman is figuratively like entering death, so that it is said that her guests are in the depths of sheol. Certainly fornication can lead to actual death, not only by veneral diseases, but also at the hand of a vengeful husband if one commits fornication with the wife of another. (85) If one should read into this verse that her guests are in a place of eternal torture, we need to note that the "guests" of the whore are in this condition in this life, not while actually dead; and since all sinners are reckoned as dead, figuratively speaking such as in the depths of sheol. The depths of sheol signifies the depth to which they have gone towards actually entering sheol, the realm of death. (86) Proverbs 15:11 - Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh -- How much more then the hearts of the children of men! The word "Abaddon" means "destruction", and is so rendered in many translations. Rather than associating sheol with an eternity of torture, sheol is here associated with Abaddon: destruction. Thus we find no thought of torment in this verse. (87) Proverbs 15:24 - The path of life leads upward for the wise, To keep him from going downward to Sheol. Some read into this verse the idea that going upward means to heaven when one dies, and to go downward means to go to a place of eternal torture at death. In effect, it would make "paradise" upward, and sheol downward. This would leave paradise out as a "compartment" of sheol, and therefore would actually go against the "compartment" theory concerning sheol. (88) Actually, all this verse is describing the present path of life: that the wise are led upward in righteousness, that he may not go down into sheol. In otherwords, the steps of wise man can often keep him alive, keep him from descending into sheol prematurely, so to speak. (89) Additionally, the American Standard Version renders it this way: "To the wise the way of life [goeth] upward, That he may depart from Sheol beneath." The Hebrew word translated "depart" can mean "avoid", or can mean "be returned ". Thus Solomon could be speaking here of the returning from sheol in the resurrection. With this in mind, some have offered the thought of this verse as: 'The path of life for the wise is an upward one toward righteousness, that they may be delivered by resurrection power from oblivion.' (90) Proverbs 23:14 - Punish him with the rod, And save his soul from Sheol. Some read into this the idea that the child will be saved from eternal punishment in sheol after death. Actually, if we remember that the word sheol signifies the death condition, we can understand what this is saying. We do not wish our children to be doing foolish things that will destroy him; in order to keep him from entering into death prematurely, he needs to be disciplined. (91) We also need to note here that if paradise is a compartment of sheol, we certainly would not think it to be place to be saved from. One who believes in the compartment theory of sheol would have to read into this that it is only speaking of the alleged compartment of torture rather than sheol itself. (92) Proverbs 27:20 - Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And a man's eyes are never satisfied. Abaddon (destruction) is here again linked with sheol. So far from this signifying a burning hell, of so immense proportions that it never can be filled, it merely signifies that there is no limit to the capacity of death -- oblivion and destruction cannot be overcrowded. (93) Proverbs 30:16 - There are three things that are never satisfied; Four that don't say, 'Enough:' Sheol, the barren womb; The earth that is not satisfied with water; The fire that doesn't say, 'Enough;' Sheol -- the oblivious realm of death -- never says: "Enough". Some have viewed this scripture as saying sheol is eternal; actually there is nothing here that says that sheol is eternal, only that as long as it exists, it is never satifisfied. The Hebrew word translated "never" (both in Proverbs 27:20 and 30:16) is Bal, which means "not, hardly, else." If this should mean that sheol would eternally continue claim victims, then death would never cease, but we are told that death will be no more. -- Revelation 21:4.
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