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“The LORD kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol and brings up.
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Verse 6. Hell, (infernos,) “the lower regions.” God calls us out of this world, or restores the dead to life, as he thinks proper. Bible.—He easily makes the greatest prosperity succeed extreme distress, which is often denoted by death, hell, and so forth So Seneca says, Mortis habet vices—Lentis cum trahitur vita gemitibus. The prodigal son is said to have come to life again, when his father received him, contrary to his expectations. Luke 15:24. Psalms 29:4. and so forth Calmet.
Sheol is the place of the dead.
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