“Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.”
Where the worms that eat them do not die, and the fire is not quenched — the Isaiah 66:24 citation is the scriptural grounding for the hell imagery: the place where the worm does not die and the fire is not quenched is the valley of Gehenna south of Jerusalem, used as a burning rubbish heap and associated with the site of child sacrifice to Molech (Jeremiah 7:31). The undying worm and unquenched fire are not descriptions of the mechanism of hell but images of its endless and total destructiveness.
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