OLD TESTAMENT

1 Kings 2:6

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6

Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.

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Verse 6. To hell. This word hell doth not signify the place or state of damnation; but the place and state of the dead. Challoner.—It would have been a great scandal if this murderer had died quietly in his old age. Joab had rendered great services to his uncle, for which he had been rewarded. He had been at the head of the armies 40 years. His great age rendered him now less formidable; particularly as the nation enjoyed peace.

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Sheol is the place of the dead.

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