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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 14:23

Pools of water] The works of irrigation connected with the Euphrates being destroyed the land would become a morass. This, in fact, happened after the conquest of Babylon by Cyrus.

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See also Isaiah 14:23 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 14:23. _I WILL SWEEP IT WITH THE BESOM OF DESTRUCTION_ - "I will plunge it in the miry gulf of destruction"] I have here very nearly followed the Version of the _Septuagint_; the reasons...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I WILL ALSO MAKE IT A POSSESSION FOR THE BITTERN - The word ‘bittern,’ in English, means a bird with long legs and neck, that stalks among reeds and sedge, feeding upon fish. The Hebrew word (קפד _qı̂...

  • 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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Epilogue, going back on the concluding threat of ch. 13....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the bittern_ (ch. Isaiah 34:11; Zephaniah 2:14). Usually rendered "hedgehog" (R.V. PORCUPINE) in accordance with the LXX. and Vulg. and the analogy of Arabic. The bittern certainly suits the scene be...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _ISAIAH 14:22_. _For I will rise,_ &c. Thus the prophet ends this remarkable song, and again informs us, what he had set forth in the first part of this prophesy, that the judgment should not rest in...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    c. DESTROYED TEXT: Isaiah 14:21-27 21 Prepare ye slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers, that they rise not up, and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with citi...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts. I WILL ALSO MAKE IT A POSSESSION FOR THE BITTERN (Heb...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    14:23 bittern, (e-10) According to others, 'the hedgehog.' so ch. 34.11; Zephaniah 2:14 ....

  • 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

    I WILL ALSO MAKE IT A POSSESSION FOR THE BITTERN... — Naturalists are not agreed as to the meaning of the noun. In the LXX. and Vulgate it appears as “hedgehog,” or “porcupine,” and the “tortoise,” “b...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ שַׂמְתִּ֛יהָ לְ מֹורַ֥שׁ קִפֹּ֖ד וְ אַגְמֵ

  • 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

    _Besom. Reducing it to a heap of rubbish, (chap. xiii. 21.; Calmet) as the event shewed. (Watson)_...

  • 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

    23._And I will make it to be a possession of the hedgehog. _(228) He again confirms the same things which he formerly predicted, namely, that henceforth it will not be a habitation of men, but will re...

  • 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

    I WILL ALSO MAKE IT A POSSESSION FOR THE BITTERN,.... Instead of being possessed by any of the family of the king of Babylon. The "bittern" is a kind of water fowl, which, by putting its bill into mir...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts. Ver. 23. _I will also make it a possession for the bi...

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

    _Prepare slaughter for his children_ O ye Medes and Persians, cut off all the branches of the royal family. This, it is probable, was actually done, for Belshazzar being slain, and the monarchy transl...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I will also make it, the site of Babylon, A POSSESSION FOR THE BITTERN, or an animal something like the porcupine which inhabits the wastes of the Euphrates Valley, AND POOLS OF WATER, swamps resultin...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    PROPHECIES AGAINST ASSYRIA AND PHILISTIA...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE DELIVERANCE OF ISRAEL...

  • 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

    THE BITTERN; a great water fowl, which thrusting its bill into some broken reed, or hollow thing, makes a great noise; which also delights in solitary places, as also in waterish grounds, such as thos...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 14:23 make H7760 (H8804) possession H4180 porcupine H7090 marshes H98 water H4325 sweep H2894 (H8773) broom...

  • 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 14:22 With three declarations of divine resolve—DECLARES THE LORD—the true Ruler of history vows to SWEEP the dynasty of Babylon away, preserving no...

  • 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

    1 Kings 14:10; 2 Kings 21:13; Isaiah 13:21; Isaiah 13:22; Isaiah

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Bittern — A great water fowl, which delights in solitary places, as also in watery grounds. Such as those were about Babylon. Pools — The ground about Babylon was of itself very moist, because of the...

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