Isaiah 14:18

All the kings of the nations throughout the whole world have slept in glory, each man 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 into a desert and destroyed its cities, who would not even open a prison for his prisoners?’”

19But you have been rejected from your grave, like a useless polluted plant, and you have been bound up with those who were slain by the sword, and who descended to the bottom of the pit, like a rotting carcass.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 24:16And they buried him in the City of David, with the kings, because he had done good to Israel and to his house.

Job 3:14with the kings and consuls of the earth, who build themselves solitudes,

Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man were to produce one hundred children, and to live for many years, and to attain to an age of many days, and if his soul were to make no use of the goods of his resources, and if he were lacking even a burial: concerning such a man, I declare that a miscarried child is better than he.

Isaiah 22:16“What are you here, or who are you claiming to be here? For you have hewn a sepulcher for yourself here. You have diligently hewn a memorial in a rock, as a tabernacle to yourself.

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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