Isa 38:10 | TNotes | STEP | 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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‏ Isaiah 38:10

38:10 ^a 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 ^b). 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 ^c; Pss 88:10 ^d; 115:17 ^e).