No real explanation of hell in the Bible. I think that was something highly embellished by the later church and Dante.
BTW, not all Christians believe that the scriptures necessarily provide for a hell. There's a book by Rob Bell called "Love Wins" where he argues that that is not what the Bible says. The word for Hell in Aramaic also referred to the great trash heap outside of Jerusalem. It could have therefore been metaphorical, he argues. I found it an interesting take and refreshing to find that not everybody in Christianity is now a literalist.
If the Bible says you don't get everlasting life for not believing in Jesus, then cause may not be the same for athiest, but the result is. So at least maybe they are right on the second part (non-believers don't get everliasting life), just not the first. 
Seriously though, a God who would send you to a bad place simply because you don't recognize him would be an awfully egotistical being, and why would a God hold people to spiritual principles he/she him/herself does not follow?
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