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Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 14:16-21

The fourth strophe returns to the reactions of people on the earth (cf. Isaiah 14:4-8). They expected that such a "great man" would enjoy an honorable burial, but this man received no burial at all. He died covered with the bodies of his fellow warriors rather than with earth. The pagans of Isaiah’s day believed that to leave a corpse unburied not only dishonored the dead person but doomed his spirit to wander forever on the earth seeking a home (cf. 1 Samuel 31:11-13; 2 Samuel 2:4-7). Viewing... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 14:1-23

The Judgment of Babylon and its KingThis is the first of a series of prophecies dealing mainly with foreign nations. Its subject is Babylon, where the Jews are represented as undergoing exile, from which they are about to be delivered (Isa 14:1-3) owing to the capture of Babylon by the Medes (Isa 13:17). The historical setting of the prophecy is thus much later than the age of Isaiah, in whose time the Assyrians were the great-enemies of God's people. On this ground most modern scholars regard... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 14:1-32

1. Strangers] The thought of the voluntary adhesion of strangers is prominent in the later chapters of the book (Isaiah 44:5; Isaiah 55:5; Isaiah 60:5).2. People] RV ’peoples.’ Similar anticipations are found in Isaiah 49:22; Isaiah 60:10; Isaiah 61:5: these were in some measure fulfilled in the time of Ezra: Ezra 1:1-4; Ezra 6:7, Ezra 6:8.4. Proverb] RV ’parable’ (Habakkuk 2:6), or ’taunting-song.’ The King] Nabonidus was king of Babylon from 555 till its fall 549 b.c. Golden city] rather, RM,... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 14:17

(17) That opened not the house of his prisoners.—Better, as in the margin, he loosed not his prisoners to their homes. This was, we may note, a characteristic feature of the cruelty of the Assyrian kings. So Sennacherib and Assurbanipal boast of having carried off captive kings in “chains of iron” (Records of the Past, i. pp. 43, 62, 72), and kept them chained like dogs in the court of their palace (ib., pp. 93, 97). So Jehoiachin was kept in prison for thirty-seven years (Jeremiah 52:31). read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 14:18

(18) All the kings of the nations . . .—The “house” in which the monarchs lie is, of course, their sepulchre. Such sepulchres, as in the case of the pyramid graves of the Egyptian kings, the “eternal home” as they themselves called it (comp. Ecclesiastes 12:5), were often almost literally the “house,” or palace, of the dead. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Isaiah 14:1-32

Isaiah 14:8 Ruskin says on this text: 'Consider such expressions as that tender and glorious verse in Isaiah, speaking of the cedars on the mountains as rejoicing over the fall of the king of Assyria: "Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art gone down to the grave, no feller is come up against us." See what sympathy there is here, as if with the very hearts of the trees themselves.' References. XIV. 9. D. Biggs, Christian World Pulpit, vol. lx.... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 14:1-23

BOOK 5PROPHECIES NOT RELATING TO ISAIAH’S TIMEIn the first thirty-nine chapters of the Book of Isaiah-the half which refers to the prophet’s own career and the politics contemporary with that - we find four or five prophecies containing no reference to Isaiah himself nor to any Jewish king under whom he laboured, and painting both Israel and the foreign world in quite a different state from that in which they lay during his lifetime. These prophecies are chapter 13, an Oracle announcing the... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 14:1-32

CHAPTER XXVIIBABYLON AND LUCIFERDATE UNCERTAINIsaiah 13:1-22; Isaiah 14:1-23THIS double oracle is against the City {Isaiah 13:2-22; Isaiah 14:1-2} and the Tyrant {Isaiah 14:3-23} of Babylon.I. THE WICKED CITY{Isaiah 13:2-22; Isaiah 14:1-23}The first part is a series of hurried and vanishing scenes-glimpses of ruin and deliverance caught through the smoke and turmoil of a Divine war. The drama opens with the erection of a gathering "standard upon a bare mountain" (Isaiah 13:2). He who gives the... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Isaiah 14:1-32

CHAPTER 14 Israel’s Restoration and Blessing After Babylon is Fallen and the Burden of Philistia 1. Israel’s restoration and exaltation (Isaiah 14:1-2 ) 2. The proverb against the king of Babylon (Isaiah 14:3-11 ) 3. The triumph over Lucifer (Satan) (Isaiah 14:12-20 ) 4. Babylon’s destruction (Isaiah 14:21-23 ) 5. The Assyrian broken (Isaiah 14:24-27 ) 6. The burden of Philistia (Isaiah 14:28-32 ) When the last great Babylon is overthrown the Lord will remember His people and... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 14:17

14:17 [That] made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed its cities; [that] opened not {l} the house of his prisoners?(l) To set them free, noting his cruelty. read more

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 14:16-21

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 14:1-23

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 14:1-32

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 14:17

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 14:18

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Isaiah 14:1-32

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 14:1-23

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 14:1-32

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Isaiah 14:1-32

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 14:17

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