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I WILL BE LIKE THE MOST HIGH - There is a remarkable resemblance
between this language and that used in 2 Thessalonians 2:4, in regard
to antichrist: ‘He, as God, sitteth in the temple of God, showing...
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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. _The proverb
against the king of Babylon (Is...
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ISAIAH 13:1 TO ISAIAH 14:23. THE UTTER RUIN OF BABYLON AND TRIUMPHAL
ODE OVER HER MONARCH'S DEATH. Historical conditions are here
presupposed entirely different from those of Isaiah's time. The
subjec...
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OF. that is to say. Genitive of Apposition. App-17.
THE MOST HIGH. Hebrew. _Elyon._ App-4....
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Not content with his exalted position the king aspired to equality of
rank with the great gods. A similar impiety had already been put by
Ezekiel into the mouth of the prince of Tyre (Ezekiel 28:2; Ez...
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The third strophe contains the prophet's reflection on the sudden fall
of the king of Babylon. That he should go to Sheol at all was a fate
never contemplated by his soaring and self-deifying pride....
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_b_ 21. The song of triumph over the king of Babylon is one of the
finest specimens of Hebrew poetry which the Old Testament contains. A
division into five strophes, each containing seven long lines,...
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_I will be like the most High_ Better: I WILL MAKE MYSELF LIKE TO THE
MOST HIGH. The sense of all the previous metaphors is gathered up in
this sentence. The king arrogates to himself divine honour....
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b. DEPOSED
TEXT: Isaiah 14:12-20
12
How art thou fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! how
art thou cut down to the ground, that didst lay low the nations!
13
And thou saidst in thy...
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How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how
art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
-The Jews address him again as a fallen once-bright star. The
la...
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THE JUDGMENT OF BABYLON AND ITS KING
This 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 w...
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1. STRANGERS] The thought of the voluntary adhesion of strangers is
prominent in the later Chapter s of the book (Isaiah 44:5; Isaiah
55:5; Isaiah 60:5)....
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The king of Babylon’s determination to *seize complete power made
him act madly. He even stole the property of his own people. And he
killed anyone who tried to oppose him....
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 14
THE *LORD’S PEOPLE WILL COME HOME
V1 The *Lord will pity the peo...
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Many readers have seen in these verses a reference to the future
punishment of Satan (the devil)....
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I WILL BE LIKE THE MOST HIGH. — The Chaldaean king is rightly
represented as using a Divine name (_Elîôn_)_,_ which was not
essentially Israelite, but common to the Phœnicians and other kindred
nation...
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אֶעֱלֶ֖ה עַל ־בָּ֣מֳתֵי עָ֑ב
אֶדַּמֶּ֖ה לְ עֶ
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BOOK 5
PROPHECIES NOT RELATING TO ISAIAH'S TIME
In the first thirty-nine Chapter s of the Book of Isaiah-the half
which refers to the prophet's own career and the politics contemporary
with that - we...
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CHAPTER XXVII
BABYLON AND LUCIFER
DATE UNCERTAIN
Isaiah 13:1; Isaiah 14:1
THIS double oracle is against the City Isaiah 13:2; I
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Anticipating the great day of restoration, the prophet puts into the
mouth of Israel the great parable or song which celebrates the
downfall of Assyria. This moves in five distinct strophes. In the
fi...
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I do not interrupt the reading through this long chain of the most
wonderful events, because it forms one grand whole. The destruction
which will ultimately fall upon the enemies of God and of his Chr...
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14._I will ascend above the heights of the clouds. _(225) It might
certainly be thought strange that the Prophet thus accuses the
Babylonian monarch, as if he wished to make himself equal to God,
sinc...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 AND 14.
With chapter 12 one division of the whole book closes. That which
commences with chapter 13 continues to the end of chapter 27, which
describes th...
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I WILL ASCEND ABOVE THE HEIGHTS OF THE CLOUDS,.... Which are the
chariots of God, and in which he rides, and so this proud monarch
affected to be as he; perhaps some reference is had to the cloud in
w...
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I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most
High.
Ver. 14. _I will ascend above the height of the clouds._] _Ut verbo
dicam, ero summa et sacra maiestas._
“ _Attingit soli...
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_How art thou fallen from heaven_ From the height of thy glory; _O
Lucifer_ Lucifer is properly a bright star, that ushers in the
morning; but is here metaphorically taken for the mighty king of
Babyl...
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I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, considered the chariots
and thrones of the ancient deities; I WILL BE LIKE THE MOST HIGH, many
of the emperors of old regarding themselves as the sons or...
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THE DELIVERANCE OF ISRAEL...
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1-23 The whole plan of Divine Providence is arranged with a view to
the good of the people of God. A settlement in the land of promise is
of God's mercy. Let the church receive those whom God receive...
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ABOVE THE HEIGHTS OF THE CLOUDS, to wit, into heaven, as he said,
ISAIAH 14:13. LIKE THE MOST HIGH, in the uncontrollableness of my
power, and the universal extent of my dominion over all the earth....
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Isaiah 14:14 ascend H5927 (H8799) heights H1116 clouds H5645 like
H1819 (H8691) High H5945
ascend -...
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THE DEMISE OF BABYLON AND HUMILIATION OF ITS BOASTFUL KINGS (ISAIAH
14:3).
The coming of the Babylonian ambassadors to Hezekiah had had a
profound influence on Isaiah. As he thought on the future, wit...
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Isaiah 14:1. _For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet
choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall
be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jaco...
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CONTENTS: Christ's Kingdom set up on earth with Israel restored, the
Beast of hell. Satan's fall and doom. Babylon's final judgment.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: It is the comfort of God's people tha...
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Isaiah 14:1. _And set them in their own land._ This prediction is so
correct, as appears from the books of Nehemiah and Ezra, that no man
can doubt the truth of prophecy; and its literal accomplishmen...
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_Thou shalt take up this proverb against the King of Babylon_
THE “PROVERB AGAINST THE KING OF BABYLON”
Lowth is generally thought not to speak with exaggeration when he
calls it the finest [song] o...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 14:12 FALLEN FROM HEAVEN, O DAY STAR, SON OF
DAWN! Using rich poetic imagery, the king of Babylon is addressed with
sarcastic irony. From the great heights of his pride, arroganc...
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EXPOSITION
ISAIAH 14:1
THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL, AND HER SONG OF TRIUMPH OVER BABYLON. The
destruction of Babylon is to be followed by the restoration of Israel,
with the good w
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For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and
set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with
them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob (Isaiah 14:1...
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2 Thessalonians 2:4; Genesis 3:5; Isaiah 37:23; Isaiah 37:24; Isaia