One question that we keep getting coming through our website is on hell, and especially where it may be located. Many people have asked us if the Bible gives us any type of indication of where hell may actually be located at.
After reviewing all of the verses on hell, I believe the Bible is giving us major clues as to where hell may be located at. For those of you who are interested in this technical question, I thought I would draw up this article for all of you so you can see the specific verses from our Bible that are giving us these major clues.
As you look at these specific verses, notice that every time heaven is mentioned in the Bible, it is being referred to as being “up” from our earth.
And every time hell is being mentioned, it is being referred to as being “down” from our earth. Being down from our earth tells me that hell is literally underneath our earth, and possibly located right in the center of our earth.
Here are the verses that are giving us major clues that hell may literally be located right underneath our earth, and possibly right at or close to the center of it.
- “For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment …” (2 Peter 2:4)
- “Let death seize them; let them go down alive into hell, for wickedness is in their dwellings and among them.” (Psalm 55:15)
- “Her house is the way to hell, descending to the chambers of death.”(Proverbs 7:27)
- “They do not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who go down to hell with their weapons of war; they have laid their swords under their heads but their iniquities will be on their bones, because of the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.” (Ezekiel 32:27)
- “Therefore Sheol has enlarged itself and opened its mouth beyond measure; their glory and their multitude and their pomp, and he who is jubilant, shall descend into it. People shall be brought down, each man humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled.” (Isaiah 5:14-15)
- “… then I will bring you down with those who descend into the Pit, to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the lowest part of the earth, in places desolate from antiquity, with those who go down to the Pit, so that you may never be inhabited; and I shall establish glory in the land of the living. ‘I will make you a terror, and you shall be no more; though you are sought for, you will never be found again,’ says the Lord God. (Ezekiel 26:20-21)
- “But if the Lord creates a new thing, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive in to the pit, then you will understand that these men rejected the Lord. Then it came to pass, as he finished speaking all these words, that the ground split apart under them, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up … So they and all those with them went down alive in the pit; the earth closed over them, and they perished from among the congregation.” (Numbers 16:30-33)
- “Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.” (Isaiah 14:15)
- “For Sheol cannot thank You, death cannot praise You; Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your truth.” (Isaiah 38:18)
- “… Deliver him from going down to the Pit … He will redeem his soul from going dow to the Pit, and his life shall see the light.” (Job 33:24,28)
- “Let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down to the Pit…” (Proverbs 1:12)
- “But those who seek my life, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.” (Psalm 63:9)
Notice how many times in these verses that people are literally being cast down into hell.
Once again, here are some of these key words put one right after another in a bolded bullet point format so you can see these major clues very clearly from these specific verses.
- cast them down to hell
- go down alive into hell
- descending to the chambers of death
- shall descend into it
- descend into the Pit
- those who go down to the pit
- they go down alive into the pit
- going down to the pit
- shall go into the lowest parts of the earth
The very last verse from Psalm 63:9 is a major one, as it is literally telling us that those who are going into hell are literally going into the “lowest parts of the earth.”
The verse from Numbers 16:30 tells us that the earth literally opened up and swallowed them up alive who were rejecting the Lord. And from there it tells us they literally went down alive into the Pit.
Just these two verses alone are telling us that hell is somewhere below the earth’s surface. And the rest of the verses are also saying the exact same thing, in that every time the Bible talks about hell, it is talking about people always being cast down into it.
In my opinion, when you put all of these verses together, one right next to the other, I think it is very plain and clear that there really is a hell and that it is literally located right underneath our earth, and possibly close to the center of it.
Conclusion
In the Bible Basics section of our site, we have a much more detailed and intense article on the reality of hell and what the living conditions may be like down there.
If you would like to see all of the main verses from our Bible on the existence of a real, live, living hell and why God has created it in the first place, here is the link to our main article on this topic:
We also have in this article the testimony of Bill Wiese who literally spent 23 minutes down in hell so God could have him bring back to us exactly what the living conditions are like down there.
As we have said in this article, hell and death are real and unless you accept Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior in this very short life, you will spend the rest of your eternal existence down in this horrible place of torment.
What Bill Wiese saw and experienced down there is way beyond what our wildest nightmares could ever conjure up. Hollywood, with all of its fancy special effects technology, could never put on the big screen the real horrors that are going on down there 24/7 for all of the people who are now living down there.
Again, to all of you who have any unsaved loved ones, please pray for their eternal salvation to the day they literally die.
Pray that God, through the power of the Holy Spirit, make major power moves on each and every one of them before it is too late.
Once you die and cross over, that will be it. There will be no second chances once you enter into hell. There will be no appeals you will be able to make before the Lord.
Your fate will be forever and finally decided once you die and enter into this place of unimaginable horror.
We all only have one short window to get all of our loved ones saved before they die and cross over. Do not waste and squander this one short window we all now have with the Lord.
Your own personal, one-on-one prayers to the Lord could be instrumental in getting some of these people saved before they die and meet the Lord head for their own personal final judgment.
Your own prayers to the Lord for their own personal salvation may be the only thing that will end up keeping them from dropping into the most horrible place imaginable, where the Bible says that the smoke of their torment will ascend forever and ever.
Do not discount how powerful your own personal prayers to the Lord may be for each and every one of them. God hears and listens to your prayers.
And He may just mightily move to answer your own prayers, especially for the salvation of those who may be very close to you.
Eutica Headley
Tuesday 20th of July 2021
this information is extremely helpful, the scripture verses are right on point. thank you so much!!
Khathutshelo Zacharia
Saturday 22nd of August 2020
What an interesting topic to research about? It is interesting that there are some of issues that God kept them secrets (Deut.29:29) of which if we are hungry enough of Him, we had to go search them out from Him by His Spirit and the Word. Acts17:27 To answer this easy but rather difficult question, one must first understand the language of God. Without delving into much and to go straight into the answer of the question, Hell is a spiritual place of perpetual torment which can be seen when one is on the third heaven. In Luke 16: 31, the rich man who was in Hell could see Lazarus in Paradise. Hell and Paradise are separated by a chasm. According to Enoch Hell, the spiritual place of torment is in the northern side of Paradise. Heaven is a spiritual realm. When we die, we all go to Heaven, but are separated there by our own works. Hopefully you are enriched You get the book of heavenly encounters of Enoch, you will be thrilled to learn about all the heavens, that's from the first heaven to the 10th Heaven. But on the same note spiritually there are people who are filling the pinch of hell here on Earth as we are speaking right now. Those who rejected the saving gospel of Jesus Christ. They do not have eternal peace. Their lives are in darkness and are under torment because of sin. With others life to them it's paradise on earth. Paradise is for the righteous and compassionate.
James Sundquist
Wednesday 11th of March 2020
Brilliant article!!! The wicked for sure went DOWN to Hell. But the righteous also went down to Hell, but it was the Paradise Side vs. Hades the wicked side, separated by a great chasm that neither could cross. But a host of Christians think Paradise was in Heaven and has always been. But what seals the deal for Michael's case is Samuel ASCENDED from Paradise when the Witch of Endor conjured him up, that means it was impossible for Paradise to be in Heaven 1,056 B.C. Down means down and up means up! I have much more on this if Michael could respond, I will email it to you. WELL DONE THY GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT!!!
Stan Zweigart
Monday 27th of January 2020
It is quite clear to me that the Bible shows us that Hell or the pit or Sheol is located under the earth’s crust probably the center of the earth. This truth is clearly revealed in Numbers 16 the story of Korah’s rebellion against Moses. Other scriptures that show this same truth are:
Deut. 11:6 Psalms 30:9 63:9,11,15 Isaiah 14:9
Ezekiel 26:20 32:18,30 Phil. 2:10, 11 Ephesians 4:9 38:18
I Peter 3:19 4:6 Rev 9:1-2
David
Wednesday 6th of November 2019
What about this option? The Bible also talks about death, hell, and the grave. Sometimes, the Hebrew word translated as hell is sheol, which actually means the grave. Isaiah 14:15, Psalm 86:13, and Job 11:8 to name a few places. One place of special note is Psalm 139:8. In that verse, David says that if he were to ascend into heaven, God would be there and if he were to make his bed in hell, God would be there as well. The idea is that there is no place that God could not find David. That raises then the question, isn't God supposed to be in heaven, and not in hell? That word in Psalm 139:8 as hell in the Hebrew is also sheol, or, the grave.
It's Greek equivalent word is Hades. Hades in the Greek language is described as the invisible realm in which all the dead reside. The present dwelling place of all the departed. In other words, this is the place where when we die, our spirits will go to Hades until the day of God's judgments. Even this doesn't sound like hell.
There is another word used in the New Testament that also gets translated as hell, but is clearly a different place. Here are a few places to look. Matthew 5:22, Matthew 23:33, Mark 9:47, and James 3:6. There are a few more places, but in each of these places, the Greek word translated as hell is geenna, or sometimes spelled Gehenna. A study of that word would reveal that it was a place outside of Jerusalem where people would throw out their trash and their waste and even slain criminals. This place was a valley and it was nearly almost always on fire to burn up the trash. It also refers to the lake of fire spoken about in Revelation 19:20, 21:14-15.
Then there's that verse that says something about death and hades being destroyed. Revelation 20:14 says that death and hades will be cast into the lake of fire. Hell could not be cast into itself, could it? We tend to apply the same word "hell" to all things that have to do with death, hell, hades, or even the grave and the lake of fire. Yet the original Bible languages had a much better understanding than we do about the place. It's not enough to just read the Scriptures, but sometimes, we have to dig a little deeper and find out what the original words meant so we can find the proper interpretation of the Scriptures.
I know this comment was longer than probably desired, but I just couldn't leave this alone. It took me some years of not understanding clearly, but when I began to allow the Holy Spirit to teach me and give me understanding, (yes, Jesus said that the Spirit would do this), that I began to understand that what we used to teach about hell is not entirely correct. Just thought I'd pass on what I've learned and hope it helps.