Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Isaiah 14:14
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
OF. that is to say. Genitive of Apposition. App-17. THE MOST HIGH. Hebrew. _Elyon._ App-4....
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...
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....
_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,...
_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....
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...
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...
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...
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)....
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....
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...
Many readers have seen in these verses a reference to the future punishment of Satan (the devil)....
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...
אֶעֱלֶ֖ה עַל ־בָּ֣מֳתֵי עָ֑ב אֶדַּמֶּ֖ה לְ עֶ
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...
CHAPTER XXVII BABYLON AND LUCIFER DATE UNCERTAIN Isaiah 13:1; Isaiah 14:1 THIS double oracle is against the City Isaiah 13:2; I
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
THE DELIVERANCE OF ISRAEL...
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...
Isaiah 14:14 ascend H5927 (H8799) heights H1116 clouds H5645 like H1819 (H8691) High H5945 ascend -...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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
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...
2 Thessalonians 2:4; Genesis 3:5; Isaiah 37:23; Isaiah 37:24; Isaia
Like — In the uncontrolableness of my power, and the universal extent of my dominion....