Isaiah 14:18

All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory, each one in his own house.

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In The King James Version

All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.

In Context

17who made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities of it, who did not let loose his prisoners to their home?

19But thou are cast forth away from thy sepulcher like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, as a dead body trodden under foot.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 24:16And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.

Job 3:14with kings and counselors of the earth, who built waste places for themselves,

Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man begets a hundred sons, and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial, I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

Isaiah 22:16What are thou doing here? And whom have thou here, that thou have hewed thee out here a sepulcher? Hewing him out a sepulcher on high, carving a habitation for himself in the rock!

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 14:5-24

The Doom of the King of Babylon. ( b. c. 739.) 4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! 5 The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers. 6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth. 7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing. 8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of… Read the whole commentary →

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