Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 14:15

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15. to hell —to Sheol ( :- ), thou who hast said, "I will ascend into heaven " ( Matthew 11:23 ). sides of the pit —antithetical to the "sides of the north" ( Matthew 11:23- : ). Thus the reference is to the sides of the sepulcher round which the dead were arranged in niches. But MAURER here, as in Isaiah 14:13 , translates, "the extreme, " or innermost parts of the sepulchre: as in Ezekiel 32:23 (compare 1 Samuel 24:3 ). 1 Samuel 24:3- : . THE PASSERS-BY CONTEMPLATE WITH ASTONISHMENT THE BODY OF THE KING OF BABYLON CAST OUT, INSTEAD OF LYING IN A SPLENDID MAUSOLEUM, AND CAN HARDLY BELIEVE THEIR SENSES THAT IT IS HE. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-16" class="com-number"

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