Isaiah 14:18

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

Leeser Tanakh

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

17That rendered the world as a wilderness, and pulled down its cities: never opened the prison-house of his prisoners?”

19But thou—thou art cast out of thy grave like a discarded offshoot, as a garment of those that are slain, pierced by the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit, as a carcass 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 a good thing in Israel, and toward God, and his house.

Job 3:14With kings and counsellors of the earth, who build up ruined places for themselves;

Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man were to beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years were many, and his soul were not satisfied with what is good, and he have not had even a burial: then do I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

Isaiah 22:16What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewn out for thyself here a sepulchre, [the man] that hath hewn out on high his sepulchre, that holloweth out in the rock a habitation for himself?

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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