Psalms 16:10

David trusts that God will not abandon his soul to the grave or let his Holy One see corruption. It matters because it is a direct prophecy of Christ's resurrection.

Cross-references · 23

• Acts 2:27–31because You will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.
• Acts 13:35–38So also, He says in another Psalm: ‘You will not let Your Holy One see decay.’
• Ps 49:15But God will redeem my life from Sheol, for He will surely take me to Himself. Selah
• Rev 1:18the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.
• Rev 20:13The sea gave up its dead, and Death and Hades gave up their dead, and each one was judged according to his deeds.
• Isa 14:9Sheol beneath is eager to meet you upon your arrival. It stirs the spirits of the dead to greet you—all the rulers of the earth. It makes all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones.
• Deut 32:22For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.
• Luke 16:23In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham from afar, with Lazarus by his side.
• Luke 1:35The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God.
• 1 Cor 15:42So will it be with the resurrection of the dead: What is sown is perishable; it is raised imperishable.
• Isa 5:14Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go Zion’s nobles and masses, her revelers and carousers!
• 1 Cor 15:50–55Now I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
• Num 6:6Throughout the days of his separation to the LORD, he must not go near a dead body.
• Ps 139:8If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.
• Lev 19:28You must not make any cuts in your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.
• Luke 4:34“Ha! What do You want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”
• Prov 15:11Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the LORD—how much more the hearts of men!
• Job 11:8They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?
• Prov 27:20Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
• Dan 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
• Acts 3:14–15You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.
• Ps 9:17The wicked will return to Sheol—all the nations who forget God.
• Amos 9:2Though they dig down to Sheol, from there My hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will pull them down.

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