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HE WHO SMOTE - This may either refer to the king of Babylon, or to the
rod or scepter which he had used, and which was now broken. Herder
refers it to the scepter, ‘that which smote the nations.’ (On...
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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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CONTINUAL. unremitting.
RULED THE NATIONS. trod down nations.
IS PERSECUTED, AND NONE HINDERETH. with an unsparing persecution....
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_b_ 8. The first strophe is like a sigh of relief breathed by the
whole of creation, when the disturber of its peace has vanished from
the scene....
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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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_He who_ Better, as R.V., THAT; the antecedent being the staff,
_is persecuted_, and _none hindereth_ R.V. "with a persecution that
none restrained." The parallelism requires instead of "persecution...
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THOU SHALT TAKE UP THIS PROVERB— The latter member of this discourse
is employed in a figurative enarration of the fall of the kings of
Babylon, Isaiah 14:4 and of Babylon itself, Isaiah 14:22. The pr...
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN
2.
BABYLON (Continued)
a. DESPISED
TEXT: Isaiah 14:1-11
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For Jehovah will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel,
and set them in their own land; and the sojourner...
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That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and
say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
-A CHORUS OF JEWS EXPRESS THEIR JOYFUL SURPRISE AT BABYLON'S DOWNFA...
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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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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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HE WHO SMOTE... — Better, _which smote,_ the whole verse being of
the nature of a relative clause, with the “sceptre” for
antecedent.
A CONTINUAL STROKE. — Literally, _a stroke without ceasing._
IS...
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מַכֶּ֤ה עַמִּים֙ בְּ עֶבְרָ֔ה מַכַּ֖ת
בִּלְתִּ֣י...
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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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He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that
ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, [and] (d) none hindereth.
(d) That is, he permitted all violence and injuries to be done....
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_Persecuted. The Jews read incorrectly, "is persecuted."_...
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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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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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HE WHO SMOTE THE PEOPLE IN WRATH WITH A CONTINUAL STROKE,.... The king
of Babylon, who made war with the people and nations of the earth, and
conquered them, smote them with the edge of the sword to g...
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He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that
ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, [and] none hindereth.
Ver. 6. _He that smote the people in wrath, &c._] This is the
tyrant...
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_He that ruled the nations in anger_ With rigour, and not with
clemency; _is persecuted and none hindereth_ Neither the Babylonians
themselves nor their confederates. _The whole earth is at rest_ The...
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He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, namely, the
scepter of the tyrant, HE THAT RULED THE NATIONS IN ANGER, IS
PERSECUTED, AND NONE HINDERETH, rather, "he subjugated in anger
nati...
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THE DELIVERANCE OF ISRAEL...
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A CONTINUAL STROKE:
_ Heb._ a stroke without removing...
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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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IN ANGER; with rigour, and not with clemency, as many conquerors have
done. NON HINDERETH; neither the Babylonians themselves, nor their
confederates, could withstand the power of the Medes and Persia...
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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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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 Chronicles 36:17; Daniel 4:35; Daniel 7:19; Isaiah 13:14;...
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Anger — With rigour and not with clemency. None — Neither the
Babylonians themselves, nor their confederates....