イザヤ書 14:17-18 JCB

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 14:17

That made the world as a wilderness - That made cities and kingdoms desolate.That opened not the house of his prisoners - This is a description of his oppression and cruelty. Of course many prisoners would be taken in war. Instead of giving them liberty, he threw them into prison and kept them there. This may be rendered, ‘his prisoners he did not release that they might return home’ (see the Margin). The Chaldee renders it, ‘To his prisoners he did not open the door.’ The sense is... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 14:18

All the kings of the nations - That is, this is the common way in which the kings are buried.Lie in glory - They lie in a magnificent mausoleum; they are surrounded with splendor even in their tombs. It is well known that vast sums of money were expended to rear magnificent mausoleums as the burial place of kings. With this design, probably, the pyramids of Egypt were reared; and the temple of Bel in Babylon, we are told, was employed for this purpose. Josephus says that vast quantities of... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 14:15-17

Isaiah 14:15-17. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell To the grave, and the state of the dead; to the sides of the pit And lodged there in the lowest state of misery and degradation. They that see thee In this humbled and wretched state, shall narrowly look upon thee As not knowing thee at first sight, and hardly believing their own eyes, because of this great alteration of thy condition, a change which, to them, seemed next to impossible. Is this the man that made the earth to... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 14:18-20

Isaiah 14:18-20 . All the kings of the nations That is, other kings generally; lie in glory, &c. Are buried in their own sepulchres, having stately monuments erected to their memory. The persons who are represented as uttering these words are supposed to have before their eyes the carcass of the king of Babylon, lying on the bare ground among the common slain, greatly disfigured and covered with blood and wounds. But thou art cast out of thy grave Deprived of a grave, or... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 14:1-23

13:1-23:18 MESSAGES FOR VARIOUS NATIONSAll the nations are under the rule of God, who controls their rise to power and their final destruction according to his purposes. This is the truth that the prophet teaches in the collection of prophecies against various nations in Chapters 13 to 23. The first message is for Babylon, which in Isaiah’s day had not yet risen to a position of international power. The fall of Babylon that is pictured in these chapters would not take place for more than one... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 14:17

world = the habitable world. Hebrew. tebel. opened not the house of = loosed not. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 14:18

lie = sleep. Hebrew. shakab. So rendered twelve times in O.T. glory = state or honour. house = burial-house, or mausoleum. 1 Kings 2:10 , 1Ki 2:34 ; 1 Samuel 25:1 ; 1 Samuel 28:3 Ecclesiastes 12:5 . read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 14:17

17. opened not . . . house . . . prisoners—But MAURER, as Margin, "Did not let his captives loose homewards." read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 14:18

18. All—that is, This is the usual practice. in glory—in a grand mausoleum. house—that is, "sepulchre," as in :-; "grave" ( :-). To be excluded from the family sepulcher was a mark of infamy (Isaiah 34:3; Jeremiah 22:19; 1 Kings 13:22; 2 Chronicles 21:20; 2 Chronicles 24:25; 2 Chronicles 28:27). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 14:1-27

The first oracle against Babylon 13:1-14:27The reader would expect that Isaiah would inveigh against Assyria, since it was the most threatening enemy in his day, and since he referred to it many times in earlier chapters. However, he did not mention Assyria in this section but Babylon, an empire that came into its own about a century after Isaiah’s time. Babylon was a symbol of self-exalting pride, and its glory, dating back to the tower of Babel (cf. Isaiah 13:5; Isaiah 13:10-11). Thus what he... read more