OLD TESTAMENT

Isaiah 57:9

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You went to the king with oil, increased your perfumes, sent your ambassadors far off, and degraded yourself even to Sheol.

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Verse 9. King. Moloc, or ( Calmet.) any foreign king, of whose alliance God did not approve. Theod.—To please them, the true religion was adulterated.

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Sheol is the place of the dead.

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