Hades is mentioned ten times in the Bible, all in the New Testament (as it’s a Greek word and the Old Testament was written in Hebrew and Aramaic). What does Hades look like, who goes there, where is it, and how is it described in the Bible? Join ArieRashelle as she searches through Scripture for the answer to these questions and more in her video, What Is Hades? Pt. 1: The Underworld.
Matthew 23:23-36
Acts 2:27
Psalms 16:10
Genesis 37:35
Luke 16:19-31
Luke 23:43
Matthew 12:40
1 Samuel 28:11-14
Ephesians 4:7-10 (NKJV)
Matthew 22:42
Psalms 68:18
John 14:1-7
Revelation 20:11-15
Proverbs 27:20
Proverbs 30:15-16
Isaiah 5:14
Isaiah 14:15
Revelation 9
Revelation 11
Revelation 17
Revelation 20:1-10
Isaiah 14:9
Isaiah 38:10
Job 17:16
What Is Hades?
Hades Described In The Bible
19 There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. 20 And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, 21 who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores.
22 The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried, 23 and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. 24 And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.’
25 But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish. 26 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’ 27 And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father’s house— 28 for I have five brothers—so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’
29 But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’ 30 And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ 31 He said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.’
Luke 16:19-31
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