OLD TESTAMENT

1 Kings 2:9

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Now therefore don’t hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood.”

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Verse 9. Man. Many have thought that Solomon was only 12 years old. Euseb. and so forth—But the best chronologers suppose that he was about 20. God had blessed him with a happy disposition, which he adorned with various graces. Calmet. 3:12. Wisd. 8:19.

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Sheol is the place of the dead.

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