Isaiah 14:22 - Exposition

And cut off from Babylon the name . It is not quite clear in what sense her "name" was to be "cut off" from Babylon. One of the main masses of ruin still bears the old name almost unchanged ( Babil ), and can scarcely be supposed to have lost it and afterwards recovered it. Perhaps "name" here means "fame" or "celebrity" (comp. Deuteronomy 26:19 ; Zephaniah 3:20 ). Son and nephew ; rather, son and grandson , or issue and descendants . The same phrase occurs in the same sense in Genesis 21:23 and Job 18:19 .