Death of the Wicked
61 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
- Numbers 16:30 But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them and all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD …
- 1 Samuel 25:38 About ten days later, the LORD struck Nabal dead.
- 2 Chronicles 21:6 And Jehoram walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done. For he married a daughter of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 21:20 Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He died, to no one’s regret, and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
- Job 4:21 Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’
- Job 18:14 He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.
- Job 18:18 He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
- Job 20:4–5 Do you not know that from antiquity, since man was placed on the earth, …
- Job 20:8 He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
- Job 20:11 The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.
- Job 21:13 They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.
- Job 21:17–18 How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction? …
- Job 21:23–26 One man dies full of vigor, completely secure and at ease. …
- Job 24:20 The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is broken like a tree.
- Job 24:24 They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.
- Job 27:8 For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
- Job 27:19–23 He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone. …
- Job 34:20 They die in an instant, in the middle of the night. The people convulse and pass away; the mighty are removed without human hand.
- Job 36:12 But if they do not obey, then they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.
- Job 36:14 They die in their youth, among the male shrine prostitutes.
- Job 36:18 Be careful that no one lures you with riches; do not let a large bribe lead you astray.
- Job 36:20 Do not long for the night, when people vanish from their homes.
- Psalm 37:1–2 Do not fret over those who do evil; do not envy those who do wrong. …
- Psalm 37:9–10 For the evildoers will be cut off, but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land. …
- Psalm 37:35–36 I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree, …
- Psalm 49:7 No man can possibly redeem his brother or pay his ransom to God.
- Psalm 49:9–10 that he should live on forever and not see decay. …
- Psalm 49:14 Like sheep they are destined for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form will decay in Sheol, far from their lofty abode.
- Psalm 49:17 For when he dies, he will carry nothing away; his abundance will not follow him down.
- Psalm 49:19–20 he will join the generation of his fathers, who will never see the light of day. …
- Psalm 55:23 But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.
- Psalm 58:9 Before your pots can feel the burning thorns— whether green or dry— He will sweep them away.
- Psalm 73:3–4 For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. …
- Psalm 73:17–20 until I entered God’s sanctuary; then I discerned their end. …
- Psalm 78:50 He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.
- Psalm 92:7 that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.
- Proverbs 2:22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
- Proverbs 5:22–23 The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him. …
- Proverbs 10:25 When the whirlwind passes, the wicked are no more, but the righteous are secure forever.
- Proverbs 10:27 The fear of the LORD prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be cut short.
- Proverbs 11:7 When the wicked man dies, his hope perishes, and the hope of his strength vanishes.
- Proverbs 11:10 When the righteous thrive, the city rejoices, and when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy.
- Proverbs 13:9 The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is extinguished.
- Proverbs 14:32 The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.
- Proverbs 21:16 The man who strays from the path of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.
- Proverbs 24:20 For the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.
- Proverbs 29:1 A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.
- Proverbs 29:16 When the wicked thrive, rebellion increases; but the righteous will see their downfall.
- Ecclesiastes 8:10 Then too, I saw the burial of the wicked who used to go in and out of the holy place, and they were praised in the city where they had done so. This too is futile.
- Isaiah 14:11 Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your blanket.
- Isaiah 14:15 But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.
- Isaiah 17:14 In the evening, there is sudden terror! Before morning, they are no more! This is the portion of those who loot us and the lot of those who plunder us.
- Isaiah 26:14 The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them.
- Jeremiah 16:3–4 For this is what the LORD says concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and the mothers who bore them, and the fathers who fathered them in this land: …
- Ezekiel 28:8 They will bring you down to the Pit, and you will die a violent death in the heart of the seas.
- Ezekiel 28:10 You will die the death of the uncircumcised at the hands of foreigners. For I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.”
- Amos 9:10 All the sinners among My people will die by the sword — all those who say, ‘Disaster will never draw near or confront us.’”
- Luke 12:20 But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
- Luke 16:22–28 One day the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich man also died and was buried. …
- Acts 5:3–10 Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and withhold some of the proceeds from the land? …
- 1 Thessalonians 5:3 While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.