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"Hades" is the Greek word for the realm of the dead. In the Greek Septuagint, it replaces the Hebrew word "Sheol". There's not a lot of description of Hades within the main canon - chiefly the parable in Luke 16 - but generally it is considered the holding place for the souls of the dead until the final judgement. It is sometimes thought to be divided into ...

While it is true that David was a man after God's own heart, he was also a man who had no scruples about killing. Take, most famously, as an example, Uriah. Uriah was killed for the grievous offense of having a hot wife! In the case of Joab, it was a political revenge killing, pure and simple. David says in 1 Kings 2: 5 “Now you yourself know what ...

The scriptural support for Jesus descending into Hell at all is weak: http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/did-jesus-spend-saturday-in-hell We don't want to put words in God's mouth, but the Bible doesn't give us any hope for Judah. In fact, Jesus calls him the one destined for destruction in John 17:12: While I was with them, I protected them and ...

...I still don't feel that Joab should have been punished... Feelings. Bah. Remember, this was David passing sentence, not God. Nothing says that David has to feel about things the same way you do, especially considering he lived in a very different and more brutal age. For that matter, even if it was God, at no time should we ever be so arrogant to ...