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Wednesday, July 9th, 2025
the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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New Living Translation

Proverbs 1:12

Let's swallow them alive, like the grave; let's swallow them whole, like those who go down to the pit of death.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Character;   Fellowship;   Hell;   Homicide;   Robbers;   Temptation;   Young Men;   The Topic Concordance - Greed/gluttony;   Profit;   Theft;   Violence;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God;   Birds;   Character of the Wicked;   Sin;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Proverbs, Theology of;   Sheol;   Work;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Hell;   Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Pit;   Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Hell;   Proverbs book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Sheol;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Godliness;   Sheol;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Let’s swallow them alive, like Sheol,whole, like those who go down to the Pit.
Hebrew Names Version
Let's swallow them up alive like She'ol, And whole, like those who go down into the pit.
King James Version
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
English Standard Version
like Sheol let us swallow them alive, and whole, like those who go down to the pit;
New Century Version
Let's swallow them alive, as death does; let's swallow them whole, as the grave does.
New English Translation
We will swallow them alive like Sheol, those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit.
Amplified Bible
Let us swallow them alive like Sheol (the place of the dead), Even whole, as those who go down to the pit [of death];
New American Standard Bible
Let's swallow them alive like Sheol, Even whole, like those who go down to the pit;
World English Bible
Let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, And whole, like those who go down into the pit.
Geneva Bible (1587)
We wil swallow them vp aliue like a graue euen whole, as those that goe downe into the pit:
Legacy Standard Bible
Let us swallow them alive like Sheol,And whole, as those who go down to the pit;
Berean Standard Bible
let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.
Contemporary English Version
They're well and healthy now, but we'll finish them off once and for all.
Complete Jewish Bible
we'll swallow him alive, like Sh'ol, whole, like those who descend to the pit;
Darby Translation
let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those that go down into the pit;
Easy-to-Read Version
We will swallow them whole, as the grave swallows the dying.
George Lamsa Translation
Let us swallow them up alive, as Sheol swallows the living, and whole as those who go down into the pit;
Good News Translation
They may be alive and well when we find them, but they'll be dead when we're through with them!
Lexham English Bible
Like Sheol, we will swallow them alive and whole, like those who descend to the pit.
Literal Translation
let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those who go down into the Pit,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
let us swalowe the vp like ye hell, let us deuoure the quycke and whole, as those that go downe in to the pytt.
American Standard Version
Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;
Bible in Basic English
Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave, and whole, as those that go down into the pit;
King James Version (1611)
Let vs swallow them vp aliue, as the graue, and whole, as those that goe downe into the pit:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Let vs swallowe them vp lyke the graue quicke and whole, as those that go downe into the pit:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and let us swallow him alive, as Hades would, and remove the memorial of him from the earth:
English Revised Version
Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those that go down into the pit;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
swolowe we him, as helle swolowith a man lyuynge; and al hool, as goynge doun in to a lake; we schulen fynde al preciouse catel,
Update Bible Version
Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;
Webster's Bible Translation
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
New King James Version
Let us swallow them alive like Sheol, [fn] And whole, like those who go down to the Pit;
New Life Bible
Let us swallow them alive like death, as those who go down to the grave.
New Revised Standard
like Sheol let us swallow them alive and whole, like those who go down to the Pit.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Let us engulf them, like hades, alive, While in health, like them who are going down to the pit;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit.
Revised Standard Version
like Sheol let us swallow them alive and whole, like those who go down to the Pit;
Young's Literal Translation
We swallow them as Sheol -- alive, And whole -- as those going down [to] the pit,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Let us swallow them alive like Sheol, Even whole, as those who go down to the pit;

Contextual Overview

10 My child, if sinners entice you, turn your back on them! 11 They may say, "Come and join us. Let's hide and kill someone! Just for fun, let's ambush the innocent! 12 Let's swallow them alive, like the grave; let's swallow them whole, like those who go down to the pit of death. 13 Think of the great things we'll get! We'll fill our houses with all the stuff we take. 14 Come, throw in your lot with us; we'll all share the loot." 15 My child, don't go along with them! Stay far away from their paths. 16 They rush to commit evil deeds. They hurry to commit murder. 17 If a bird sees a trap being set, it knows to stay away. 18 But these people set an ambush for themselves; they are trying to get themselves killed. 19 Such is the fate of all who are greedy for money; it robs them of life.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

swallow: Psalms 35:25, Psalms 56:1, Psalms 56:2, Psalms 57:3, Psalms 124:3, Jeremiah 51:34, Lamentations 2:5, Lamentations 2:16, Micah 3:2, Micah 3:3

as the: Psalms 5:9, Romans 3:13

whole: Numbers 16:30-33, Numbers 26:10, Psalms 28:1, Psalms 143:7

Reciprocal: Genesis 27:41 - then Genesis 34:23 - General Genesis 37:20 - and let Judges 9:25 - General Judges 9:48 - What ye Job 20:18 - swallow Job 31:31 - Oh Psalms 10:8 - sitteth Psalms 83:4 - General Psalms 119:110 - wicked Isaiah 5:14 - opened Isaiah 49:19 - they that Ezekiel 28:8 - shall bring Ezekiel 36:3 - swallowed Acts 23:15 - that he 2 Corinthians 2:7 - swallowed

Cross-References

Genesis 1:10
God called the dry ground "land" and the waters "seas." And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:11
Then God said, "Let the land sprout with vegetation—every sort of seed-bearing plant, and trees that grow seed-bearing fruit. These seeds will then produce the kinds of plants and trees from which they came." And that is what happened.
Genesis 1:24
Then God said, "Let the earth produce every sort of animal, each producing offspring of the same kind—livestock, small animals that scurry along the ground, and wild animals." And that is what happened.
Genesis 1:26
Then God said, "Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground."
Isaiah 61:11
The Sovereign Lord will show his justice to the nations of the world. Everyone will praise him! His righteousness will be like a garden in early spring, with plants springing up everywhere.
Mark 4:28
The earth produces the crops on its own. First a leaf blade pushes through, then the heads of wheat are formed, and finally the grain ripens.
Luke 6:44
A tree is identified by its fruit. Figs are never gathered from thornbushes, and grapes are not picked from bramble bushes.
2 Corinthians 9:10
For God is the one who provides seed for the farmer and then bread to eat. In the same way, he will provide and increase your resources and then produce a great harvest of generosity in you.
Galatians 6:7
Don't be misled—you cannot mock the justice of God. You will always harvest what you plant.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave,.... The innocent person, and those that are with him, his servants; our gang is so numerous that we can very easily dispatch him and all his attendants, and bury them out of sight at once, as if they were swallowed up alive in a grave, and so no more to be seen or heard of; and consequently we shall be in the utmost safety and security, there being no traces of what is done, nor any left to make a relation of it, or to give any information of us, or to pursue us;

and whole, as those that go down into the pit; who though whole and in perfect health, shall in a moment be destroyed and cast into the pit, being first plundered of all the riches they have about them; for this swallowing them up alive and whole, which is an allusion to a beast of prey swallowing up another creature all at once, not only intends their cruelty in taking away life, but their rapaciousness in seizing upon their substance.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

i. e., “We will be as all-devouring as Sheol. The destruction of those we attack shall be as sudden as that of those who go down quickly into the pit.” Some render the latter clause, and upright men as those that go down to the pit. “Pit” here is a synonym for Sheol, the great cavernous depth, the shadow-world of the dead.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 1:12. Let us swallow them up alive — Give them as hasty a death as if the earth were suddenly to swallow them up. This seems to refer to the destruction of a whole village. Let us destroy man, woman, and child; and then we may seize on and carry away the whole of their property, and the booty will be great.


 
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