OLD TESTAMENT

Isaiah 38:10

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I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”

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Verse 10. Hell. Sheol, or Hades, the region of the dead. Challoner.—He was afraid to die without issue. Saint Jerome 5:12.—Manasses was born three years later. Calmet.—The king would naturally have died. Saint Augustine de Gen. ad lit. vi. 17. Worthington.

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Sheol is the place of the dead.

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