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
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 14:27
27. ( :-). :-. PROPHECY AGAINST PHILISTIA. To comfort the Jews, lest they should fear that people; not in order to call the Philistines to repentance, since the prophecy was probably never circulated among them. They had been subdued by Uzziah or Azariah ( :-); but in the reign of Ahaz ( :-), they took several towns in south Judea. Now Isaiah denounces their final subjugation by Hezekiah. read more