‘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 was as great as any god. He supposed himself to be a god because he was the most important king in the world.
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...
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...
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...
FOR. And. HAST SAID. saidst. ASCEND. mount up. HEAVEN. the heavens. MOUNT OF THE CONGREGATION. Not Zion, but the Divine assembly of judgment. Compare Psalms 75:2; Psalms 82:1.Ezekiel 28
_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 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....
_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...
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...
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 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...
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)....
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...
וְ אַתָּ֞ה אָמַ֤רְתָּ בִֽ לְבָבְךָ֙ הַ שָּׁמַ
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...
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...
_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._...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
Isaiah 14:13 said H559 (H8804) heart H3824 ascend H5927 (H8799) heaven H8064 exalt H7311 (H8686) throne...
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...
Daniel 4:30; Daniel 4:31; Daniel 8:10; Ezekiel 27:3; Ezekiel 28:12;...
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...