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Verse Isaiah 14:13. _I WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN_] I will get the empire
of the whole world. _I will exalt my throne above the stars of_ _God_
- above the Israelites, who are here termed the stars of Go...
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FOR THOU HAST SAID IN THINE HEART - It was thy purpose or design.
I WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN - Nothing could more strikingly show the
arrogance of the monarch of Babylon than this impious design. The
m...
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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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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 mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north_ Render: THE
MOUNT OF ASSEMBLY IN THE UTTERMOST NORTH. We have here apparently an
allusion to Babylonian mythology which is partly elucidated...
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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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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 arrogant self-deification here put into the mouth of the
Babylonian king finds a parallel in some of the Assyrian inscriptions.
MOUNT, etc.] not Zion, as many ancient commentators explain, compari...
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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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‘Far away in the north’ refers to the sacred mountain called
Zephon in northern Syria. The former inhabitants of *Canaan believed
that all the gods met there. The proud king of Babylon thought that he...
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I WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN. — The boast of the Chaldæan king is
represented as nothing less than an apotheosis, which they themselves
claimed. So Shalmaneser describes himself as “a sun-god” (_Records...
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וְ אַתָּ֞ה אָמַ֤רְתָּ בִֽ לְבָבְךָ֙
הַ שָּׁמַ
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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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For thou hast said in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will
exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount
of the congregation, in the sides of the (i) north:
(i) Meani...
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_North. And be adored as God in the temple of Jerusalem, Psalm xlvii.
3. The Assyrian and Persian monarchs claimed divine honours, 4 Kings
xviii. 33., and Judith iii. 13._...
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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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13._Yet thou saidst in thy heart. _These words must be connected with
what goes before. _To say _means here, according to the custom of the
Hebrew language, _to resolve in one’s own mind. _The Prophet...
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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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FOR THOU HAST SAID IN THINE HEART,.... Which shows the pride and
haughtiness that were in his heart; and were the cause and reason of
his fall, for pride goes before a fall; it was the cause of the fa...
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For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will
exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount
of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
Ver. 13. _F...
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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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For thou hast said in thine heart, in the pride of Nebuchadnezzar,
Daniel 4:30, I WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN, I WILL EXALT MY THRONE ABOVE
THE STARS OF GOD, the residences of the spirits of God; I WILL S...
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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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I WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN; I will advance myself above the state of a
weak and mortal man. Great monarchs are easily induced, by their own
vain imaginations, and the flattery of their courtiers, to en...
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Isaiah 14:13 said H559 (H8804) heart H3824 ascend H5927 (H8799) heaven
H8064 exalt H7311 (H8686) throne...
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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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Daniel 4:30; Daniel 4:31; Daniel 8:10; Ezekiel 27:3; Ezekiel 28:12;...
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I — I will advance myself above the state of a weak man. Above —
Above all other kings and potentates; or, above the most eminent
persons of God's church. North — This is added as a more exact
descrip...