Isaiah 14:18

All the kings of the nations lie in honor, every man in his house.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 made the whole world desolate, and destroyed its cities; he loosed not those who were in captivity.

19But thou shalt be cast forth on the mountains, as a loathed carcass, with many dead who have been pierced with swords, going down to the grave.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 24:16And they buried him with the kings in the city of David, because he had dealt well with Israel, and with God and his house.

Job 3:14With kings and counselors of the earth, 1 Who gloried in their swords; 1

Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, 1 Yea, however abundant the days of his years shall be, 1 Yet if his soul shall not be satisfied with good, 1 And also he have no burial; 1 I said, An untimely birth is better than he. 1

Isaiah 22:16and what hast thou to do here, that thou hast here hewn thyself a sepulcher, and madest thyself a sepulcher on high, and hast graven for thyself a dwelling 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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