Why doesn't the old testament mention about the hell?

Answer 1

The Old Testament doesn't mention Hell because it wasn't invented then. The concept of hell comes from the Greek belief of Hades. When Constantine had the Bible written in order to support the new Christian religion, he incorporated ideas from the Hindus which was a story of Krishna, the idea of Hades from the Greeks and many of the Roman mythology such as the the god of wine, which of course is the basis for Jesus Christ.

Answer 2

At time The Old Testament material was reviewed, censored, and entered into Bible; Boston B. was right.
Anyway, life in general then made Hades for those who
didn't have organizational resources looking out for public welfare verily a Hell so explained it was initially described as a cold place because the common man better understood how cold deprived them of life giving resources. Hell got warmer when harvests were less threatened by winters.

Answer 3

The word hell is mentioned 31 times in the old testament.
Deuteronomy 32:22, Psalm 9:17, Psalm 16:10, Psalm 18:5, Proverbs 15:11, Isaiah 14:9, Ezekiel 31:16, Amos 9:2, Habakkuk 2:5 These are just a few.
www.biblegateway.com
Try this website and do a keyword search in KJV for 'hell' and it will give you all the verses.

Psalm 86:13
For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

Answer 4

But it does...
The common grave of mankind is explained in it ...
Cessation of all life.

The word 'hell' is used in the King James Version (as well as in the Catholic Douay Version & most older translations) to translate:
the Hebrew she’ohl′ & the Greek hai′des.
In the KJV, “hell” is rendered from she’ohl′ 31 times
and from hai′des 10 times. This version is not consistent, though, since she’ohl′ is also translated 31 times “grave” and 3 times “pit.”
In the Douay Version she’ohl′ is rendered “hell” 64 times, “pit” once, and “death” once.

However --hellfire-purgatory-eternal torment-- are not even in the Oldest available manuscripts of the New Testament...
Eternal Destruction IS mentioned --without any hope of resurrection-- but, the idea of automatic life-after-death itself is of pagan origin. It is never mentioned in either Testament in God's Word.

"Man came to be a living soul." --Genesis 1:7b
“The first man Adam became a living soul." -- 1 Corinthians 15:45

"The soul that is sinning—it itself will die." --Ezekiel 18:4

"All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in She′ol, the place to which you are going." --Ecclesiastes 9:10

What Really Is Hell?
http://watchtower.org/e/20020715/article_02.htm

Answer 5

It does.
(Psalm 16:10) For you will not leave my soul in She′ol. You will not allow your loyal one to see the pit.
'sheol' os man's grave.
'soul' is our whole body.
This scripture matches;

(Ecclesiastes 9:5-6) For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten. 6 Also, their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and they have no portion anymore to time indefinite in anything that has to be done under the sun.

False religion have over the years confused this with man's ideas that 'sheol' equals a place of eternal torment, something the Bible does not support.
Hades is mentioned in Revelation and is equated with Hell. Yet the Bible says that Hades and death will be eliminated...into a lake of fire.
(Revelation 20:14) And death and Ha′des were hurled into the lake of fire. This means the second death, the lake of fire.

Hell has been confused with the lake of fire.
And because of Revelation 20;10...hell has been depicted as a place of torment....But the Bible says this is where Satan will be tormented/eliminated.
(Revelation 20:10) And the Devil who was misleading them was hurled into the lake of fire and sulphur, where both the wild beast and the false prophet [already were]; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

Answer 6

Because hell is not the destiny and there lies in testament a mental test to recruit people to heaven.

Answer 7

Because the myth of hell had not caught on until centuries later.

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Answer 8

Old testament did fax anybody from the heaven???

Answer 9

Because jews don't believe in hell or a place of eternal torment.

Answer 10

The Hebrew word translated hell in the Old Testament is sheol. It has a New Testament counterpart, hades. Actually, if you look up sheol in a concordance, it will reference the Greek word hades. They both mean “the grave, pit, world of the dead or hell.” Hell is the tomb. In saying this, we have just discovered that all people do, in fact, go to “hell” at death! Since the Bible does say, “it is appointed unto men once to die” (Heb. 9:27), then everyone does die and go to hell—literally. All people eventually go to the grave.
The word hades is the most common word used in the New Testament for “hell.” (Actually, some New Testament translations have exchanged the word hell for hades.) I remember learning over thirty-five years ago that people in England, in the 1600s, spoke commonly of planting or putting their potatoes in hell through the winter. They understood that hell was a dark, cold, quiet place that was a hole in the ground. This word held no mystery for them. Virtually all sources agree that sheol and hades are the same and that both refer to the grave.
It was only with the passing of time that the pagan view of hell, as a blazing underground inferno, came to replace this original intent of the word.
The second Greek word translated as “hell” is found only once in the New Testament. Notice II Peter 2:4: “For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment.” The word used here is tartaros and refers to angels, not people. It means “a prison, incarceration, place of restraint or a dark abyss.” This verse describes the imprisoning of the angels on earth as their “place of restraint” or “prison” after their rebellion during the pre-Adamic age. (Read our free booklet Who is the DEVIL? to learn more about this rebellion.)
We are now prepared to examine the third and final Greek word translated twelve times as hell in the New Testament. Jesus spoke of it when He said, “And if your hand offend you, cut it off: it is better for you to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched. And if your foot offend you, cut it off: it is better for you to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched. And if your eye offend you, pluck it out: it is better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire: where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched” (Mark 9:43-48).
This verse repeatedly refers to “hell” and “fire unquenched.” It also speaks three times of “worms that die not.” We will return to these terms.
In Matthew 5:22, Christ spoke of those who could “be in danger of hell fire.” We have already examined another of His warnings to “fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell” (Matt. 10:28). Christ describes destruction in this verse, not ongoing punishing.
In each case, the terms hell and hell fire are always translated from the remaining Greek word for hell, gehenna. It can be translated either as hell or hell fire.