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 leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.
• Acts 13:35–38Therefore he says also in another psalm, ‘You will not allow your Holy One to see decay.’
• Ps 49:15But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah.
• Rev 1:18and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever more. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.
• Rev 20:13The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works.
• Isa 14:9Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
• Deut 32:22For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.
• Luke 16:23In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.
• Luke 1:35The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.
• 1 Cor 15:42So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown perishable; it is raised imperishable.
• Isa 5:14Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, their multitude, their pomp, and he who rejoices among them, descend into it.
• 1 Cor 15:50–55Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit God’s Kingdom; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.
• Num 6:6“‘All the days that he separates himself to Yahweh he shall not go near a dead body.
• Ps 139:8If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!
• Lev 19:28“‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.
• Luke 4:34saying, “Ah! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know you who you are: the Holy One of God!”
• Prov 15:11Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh — how much more then the hearts of the children of men!
• Job 11:8They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?
• Prov 27:20Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied.
• Dan 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
• Acts 3:14–15But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
• Ps 9:17The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.
• Amos 9:2Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.

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