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Isaiah 14:20,21

The fifth strophe. The guilt of the king of Babylon, which descends like a curse on his children and leads to their extermination. The impression of textual confusion is confirmed by the fact that this last strophe falls short by about two lines of its proper length.

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See also Isaiah 14:20,21 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 14:20. _BECAUSE THOU HAST DESTROYED THY LAND_, c. - "Because thou hast destroyed thy country thou hast slain thy people"] Xenophon gives an instance of this king's wanton cruelty in killi...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THOU SHALT NOT BE JOINED WITH THEM IN BURIAL - That is, even with those who are slain with the sword in battle, and to whom is granted the privilege of a decent burial. HAST DESTROYED THY LAND - Hast...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; -The passers by contemplate with astonishment the...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SHALT NOT BE JOINED, etc.] To be excluded from burial was the extremest disgrace for a king: Jeremiah 22:19; 2 Chronicles 21:20; 2 Chronicles 24:25. WITH THEM] i.e. the honourably buried kings ...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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)....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THOU SHALT NOT BE JOINED WITH THEM IN BURIAL... — The curse of the dishonoured death is connected with its cause. The conqueror had inflicted that shame even on his own people, and was punished in lik...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לֹֽא ־תֵחַ֤ד אִתָּם֙ בִּ קְבוּרָ֔ה כִּֽי ־אַר

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXVII BABYLON AND LUCIFER DATE UNCERTAIN Isaiah 13:1; Isaiah 14:1 THIS double oracle is against the City Isaiah 13:2; I

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Thy. Septuagint, "my." Thou hast been a murderer instead of a shepherd. --- Ever. The children and monarchy of Nabuchodonosor presently perished. Evilmerodac and Baltassar reigned but a short time, a...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    20._For thou hast laid thy land desolate. _This is the reason why he says that the king of Babylon did not deserve burial. He who has laid the _earth _desolate does not deserve that _the earth _shall...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THOU SHALL NOT BE JOINED WITH THEM IN BURIAL,.... The kings before mentioned; not that the sense is that he should not be interred in the same place they were, or lie in the same stately monuments the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, [and] slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned. Ver. 20. _Thou shalt not be joined to them i...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE DELIVERANCE OF ISRAEL...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, his punishment reaching even beyond his death, BECAUSE THOU HAST DESTROYED THY LAND AND SLAIN THY PEOPLE, making it the instrument of his tyrannical lust...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THOU SHALT NOT BE JOINED WITH THEM; not in place, for so the kings of several nations did not use to be joined in the same sepulchre; but in condition, not be buried as they are. THOU HAST DESTROYED T...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 14:20 joined H3161 (H8799) burial H6900 destroyed H7843 (H8765) land H776 slain H2026 (H8804) people...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE SEED OF EVILDOERS Isaiah 14:20. _The seed of evildoers shall never be renowned_. I. _This_ is _the verdict of the Scriptures_. They abound in evidence that confirms it. Whatever may be the resour...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 13:15; Job 18:16; Job 18:19; Psalms 109:13; Psalms 137:8;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Joined — Not buried as they are. Slain — Thou hast exercised great tyranny and cruelty, not only to thine enemies, but even to thine own subjects. The seed — Such as Belshazzar was, being descended fr...

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