Isaiah 14:2

The nations will bring them to their own place. Then the house of Israel will take them in the land of Yahweh as male and female servants. They will take captive those who had captured them, and they will rule over their oppressors.

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In The King James Version

And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

In Context

1Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob; he will again choose Israel and restore them into their own land. Foreigners will join with them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

3On the day that Yahweh gives you rest from your suffering and anguish, and from the hard labor which you were required to perform,

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Cross References

Leviticus 25:44As for your male and female slaves, whom you can obtain from the nations who live around you, you may buy slaves from them.

Psalms 68:18You have ascended on high; you have led away captives; 1 you have received gifts from among men, 1 even from those who fought against you, 1 so that you, Yahweh God, might live there. 1

Isaiah 49:22This is what the Lord Yahweh says, 1 “Look, I will raise my hand to the nations; I will raise my signal flag to the peoples. 1 They will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their shoulders. 1

Isaiah 60:4Look all around and see. They all gather themselves together and come to you. 1 Your sons will come from far, and your daughters will be carried in their arms. 1

Isaiah 60:14They will come to you to bow down, the sons of those who humbled you; they will bow at your feet; 1 they will call you The City of Yahweh, Zion of the Holy One of Israel. 1

Isaiah 66:12This is what Yahweh says, 1 “I am about to spread prosperity over her like a river, 1 and the riches of the nations like an overflowing stream. 1 You will nurse at her side, be carried in her arms, and be dandled on her knees. 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 14:2-4

Promises to Israel. ( b. c. 739.) 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 Jacob. 2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. 3 And it shall come to pass in… Read the whole commentary →

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