Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 14:21
Children — Cut off all the branches of the royal family. Rise — Not recover their former power.
Children — Cut off all the branches of the royal family. Rise — Not recover their former power.
PREPARE SLAUGHTER FOR HIS CHILDREN - That is, cut them off not only from inheriting the honor of their father, but from life. This command seems to be directed to the Medes and Persians, and denotes t...
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...
SLAUGHTER. a slaughter-house, or, instruments of slaughter. Hebrew. _matbeah._ Occurs only here. CHILDREN. sons. FOR THE INIQUITY OF THEIR FATHERS. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 20:5). App-92. FA...
_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,...
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 thi...
_slaughter_ A PLACE OF SLAUGHTER (R.V. marg.). that _they do not rise … land_ R.V. THAT THEY RISE NOT UP, AND POSSESS THE EARTH. _full the face of the world_with _cities_ This could hardly be reckone...
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...
Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities. PREPARE SLAUGHTER - charge to the Med...
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)....
WITH CITIES] as emblems of their dominion....
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...
The king’s own sons would suffer because of their father’s wicked behaviour (see Exodus 34:7). GOD WILL ALSO PUNISH ASSYRIA V24 The *Lord (commander of heaven’s armies) makes a serious promise. ‘Al...
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...
PREPARE SLAUGHTER FOR HIS CHILDREN. — Literally, as in Jeremiah 51:40, _a slaughter house._ The command may be addressed to the Medes of Isaiah 13:17, or to any minister of the Divine vengeance. In th...
הָכִ֧ינוּ לְ בָנָ֛יו מַטְבֵּ֖חַ בַּ עֲוֹ֣ן אֲ
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...
(n) Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they may not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities. (n) He called to the Medes and Pers...
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...
21._Prepare slaughter for his children. _Here Isaiah prophesies more plainly than before against the king of Babylon. He speaks of the whole of his descendants, to whom he intimates that this destruct...
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...
PREPARE SLAUGHTER FOR HIS CHILDREN,.... These words are directed to the Medes and Persians, to prepare instruments of slaughter, and make use of them; and prepare themselves for the slaughter of the w...
Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities. Ver. 21. _Prepare another slaughter for...
_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...
Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers, to which they agreed and on whose account his dynasty shall be destroyed, THAT THEY DO NOT RISE, NOR POSSESS THE LAND, NOR FILL TH...
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...
PREPARE SLAUGHTER FOR HIS CHILDREN; O ye Medes and Persians, cut off all the branches of the royal family of Babylon. FOR THE INIQUITY OF THEIR FATHERS; in the guilt whereof the children are justly in...
Isaiah 14:21 Prepare H3559 (H8685) slaughter H4293 children H1121 iniquity H5771 fathers H1 Lest H1077 up H6965 ...
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 14:21 Babylon’s proud royal line will end forever, while Isaiah expects David’s royal line to last forever and to bless all mankind (Isaiah 9:6; see...
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...
Exodus 20:5; Habakkuk 2:8; Isaiah 27:6; Leviticus 26:39; Matthew 23:35