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Isaiah 14:12
The ‘Morning Star’ is far brighter than anything else in the sky at dawn. This impressive description shows the proud ambition of the king of Babylon. He wanted to be as great as God in heaven.
The ‘Morning Star’ is far brighter than anything else in the sky at dawn. This impressive description shows the proud ambition of the king of Babylon. He wanted to be as great as God in heaven.
Verse Isaiah 14:12. _O LUCIFER, SON OF THE MORNING_] The _Versions_ in general agree in this translation, and render הילל _heilel_ as signifying _Lucifer_, Φωσφωρος, the _morning star_, whether _Jupi...
HOW ART THOU FALLEN FROM HEAVEN - A new image is presented here. It is that of the bright morning star; and a comparison of the once magnificent monarch with that beautiful star. He is now exhibited a...
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...
LUCIFER. Morning-star. Worshipped by the Assyrians as male at sunrise, female at sunset.. name of Satan. WEAKEN. subdue....
_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,...
_O Lucifer; son of the morning_ In his splendour he is likened to the morning star; which was worshipped by the Babylonians under the name of Istar, and is described in Assyrian by an epithet, _mustil...
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. 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...
14:12 Lucifer, (c-7) Or 'Brilliant Star.'...
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 fall of the mighty king is compared, first, to the fall of the bright star of dawn from the sky, then, by a sudden change of figure, to the felling of a great tree. LUCIFER] RV 'day-star.' WEAKEN]...
HOW ART THOU FALLEN FROM HEAVEN, O LUCIFER, SON OF THE MORNING! — The word for Lucifer is, literally, _the shining one,_ the planet Venus, the morning star, the _son of the dawn,_ as the symbol of the...
אֵ֛יךְ נָפַ֥לְתָּ מִ שָּׁמַ֖יִם הֵילֵ֣ל בֶּן...
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...
How art thou fallen from heaven, O (h) Lucifer, son of the morning! [how] art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! (h) You who thought yourself most glorious and as it were pl...
_O Lucifer. O day-star. All this, according to the letter, is spoken of the king of Babylon. It may also be applied, in a spiritual sense, to Lucifer, the prince of devils, who was created a bright an...
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...
12._How art thou fallen from heaven! _Isaiah proceeds with the discourse which he had formerly begun as personating the dead, and concludes that the tyrant differs in no respect from other men, though...
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...
HOW ART THOU FALLEN FROM HEAVEN,.... This is not to be understood of the fall of Satan, and the apostate angels, from their first estate, when they were cast down from heaven to hell, though there may...
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! Ver. 12. _How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer!_] That is,...
_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...
THE DELIVERANCE OF ISRAEL...
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! literally, "O day-star, son of the dawn," the reference being to the high and influential position occupied by the Babylonian ruler. HOW...
O LUCIFER: Or, O day star...
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...
FROM HEAVEN; from the height of thy glory and royal majesty. As kings are sometimes called gods in Scripture, so their palaces and thrones may be fitly called their heavens. O LUCIFER; which properly...
Isaiah 14:12 fallen H5307 (H8804) heaven H8064 Lucifer H1966 son H1121 morning H7837 (H8676) H3213 ...
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...
SON OF THE MORNING Verses 12-14 (Isaiah 14:12) evidently refer to Satan, who, as prince of this world-system (see "World," (John 7:7). (_ See Scofield) - (Revelation 13:8) _ is the real unseen r
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...
THE GRAVE AND ITS MYSTERIES Isaiah 14:9. _Hell from beneath is moved for thee, &c._ I. There is an invisible world (H. E. I., 2173–2175). II. Its inhabitants stand in a mysterious relation to this. I...
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 Peter 1:19; 2 Peter 2:4; Ezekiel 28:13; Isaiah 13:10; Isaiah 14:4;
Fallen — From the height of thy glory. Lucifer — Which properly is a bright star, that ushers in the morning; but is here metaphorically taken for the mighty king of Babylon. Son — The title of son is...
Who is Lucifer in this verse? PROBLEM: Many commentators consider this passage to be a reference to Satan, because the name “Lucifer” is used. However, in Isaiah 14:4 this entire poetic section stret...