Geoff an answer
The Jews believed that the dead went to sleep in Sheol, cavers under the earth -- gloomy, grey. They had trouble with the phrases in Genesis that a dead person was gathered to his ancestors, and Elijah being taken up. Try some references: Ezk 3.15 & 17, Ps 86.13, Ps 94.17, Ps 16.10, Ezk 32.27. The Lord's teaching re Lazarus Lk 16. 19 - 31 shocked the people of the day, and his other references to paradise.
Gary
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