They went down into the pit??????; (Psalm 28:1; Isaiah 38:18) they dwelt in the nether parts of the earth. (Ezekiel 26:20: 31:14) Sheol was as definitely a place beneath as the sky was a place above, (Job 11:8: Isaiah 29:4) and a synonym for dying was to say, The earth swallowed them. (Exodus 15:12) Therefore, the dead, who were so realistically pictured as going, one might say, from one floo