it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 31. With us, is not now found in Hebrew But it is in the Sam. Septuagint Syr. and Chaldee. Calmet.—His grey hairs. That is, his person, now far advanced in years.—With sorrow unto hell. The Hebrew word for hell is here Sheola, the Greek hades: it is not taken for the hell of the damned; but for that place of souls below, where the servants of God were kept before the coming of Christ. Which place, both in the Scripture and in the creed, is named hell. Challoner.—In this speech, we find many particulars not mentioned before; whence it appears, that the sacred historian does not always specify every circumstance. But, in relating the same speech, uses various expressions to the same purport. Calmet.
Sheol is the place of the dead.