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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Isaiah 38:10

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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38:10 enter the place of the dead? (literally enter the gates of Sheol?): This image comes from an ancient idea that people enter death through gates (see 14:9). Old Testament believers did not understand the afterlife as the New Testament reveals it. It was a shadowy place where all the dead were together and where no praise of God existed (see 38:18; Pss 88:10; 115:17).
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