Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.
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Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.
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Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
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Yet thou shalt be brought down to the nether-world, to the uttermost parts of the pit.
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Passages linked to Isaiah 14:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Matthew 11:23 You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to Hades. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained until today.
- Ezekiel 32:23 whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.
- Acts 12:22-23 The people shouted, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!” Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory. Then he was eaten by worms and died.
- Luke 10:15 You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, will be brought down to Hades.
- Revelation 19:20 The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
- Isaiah 14:3-11 It will happen in the day that Yahweh will give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve, that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, “How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!” Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers, who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that no one restrained. The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out in song. Yes, the cypress trees rejoice with you, with the cedars of Lebanon, saying, “Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has come up against us.” Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. They all will answer and ask you, “Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?” Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.
- Ezekiel 28:8-9 They will bring you down to the pit. You will die the death of those who are slain in the heart of the seas. Will you yet say before him who kills you, ‘I am God’? But you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Isa 14:15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to…
Isa 14:15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Ver. 15. Yet thou shalt be brought down be hell.] To the counterpoint of thy haughtiest conceits, ad infimam erebi sedem. So a merry fellow said that Xerxes, that great warrior who took upon him to control the sea, was now mending old shoes under a shop board in hell.
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To the sides of the pit,] i.e., Of the infernal lake: A tartesso in tartarum detrusus; { a} from the sides of the north, {Isa 14:13} whither thou hadst pierced thyself, ad latera luci, to the sides of the pit, and to an odd corner of the burying place. This was a foul fall, and worse than that of Hermannus Ferrariensis, who, having been canonised for a saint, was thirty years after unburied, and burnt for a heretic by Pope Boniface VIII, {b} or that of Thomas a Becket, of whom, forty-eight years after he had been sainted, it was disputed among the doctors of Paris whether he were damned or saved? {c}
{a} Adagium Homericum.
{b} Jac. Rev. Hist. Pontif., 195.
{c} Daniel’s History, fol. 99.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell,.... Into…
Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell,.... Into a very low and miserable condition; see Mat 11:23 instead of ascending to heaven: or "to the grave"; though, inasmuch as afterwards a burial is denied him, the word may be taken for the infernal pit, and so is, as much as can be, opposed to heaven; and this will be true of antichrist, when the beast and false prophet will be cast alive into the lake of fire, Rev 19:20,
to the sides of the pit; instead of being on the mount of the congregation in the sides of the north; another word for hell, the pit of corruption, and the bottomless pit. The Targum is,
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"to the ends of the lake of the house of perdition;''
the place of everlasting destruction.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Isa 14:15-17. Yet thou shalt be brought down to…
Isa 14:15-17. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell — To the grave, and the state of the dead; to the sides of the pit — And lodged there in the lowest state of misery and degradation. They that see thee — In this humbled and wretched state, shall narrowly look upon thee — As not knowing thee at first sight, and hardly believing their own eyes, because of this great alteration of thy condition, a change which, to them, seemed next to impossible. Is this the man that made the earth to tremble — All the nations of the earth? that did shake the kingdoms — At his pleasure? that made the world a wilderness — By slaying or carrying away captive its inhabitants, and destroying its produce: that opened not the house of his prisoners — That did not restore them to their own country, as Cyrus afterward did the Jews; but kept them in perpetual slavery, Jer 50:33. By this the prophet signifies both his irresistible power, and his continued cruelty.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell -…
Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell - Hebrew, ‘To sheol’ (compare Isa 14:9).
To the sides of the pit - The word ‘pit,’ here, is evidently synonymous with “hell” or “hades,” represented as a deep, dark region under ground. The dead were often buried in caves, and the descent was often dark and dreary, to the vaults where they reposed. Hence, it is always represented as going down; or, as the “inferior” regions. The ‘sides of the pit’ here stand opposed to the ‘sides of the north.’ He had sought to “ascend” to the one; he should be “brought down” to the other. The reference here is, doubtless, to the land of shades; to the dark and dismal regions where the departed dead are supposed to dwell - to “sheol.” So the parallelism proves. But the image or figure is taken from the custom of burying, where, in a deep natural cavern, or a sepulchre excavated from a rock, the dead were ranged around the “sides” of the cavern in niches or recesses excavated for that purpose (see the note at Isa 14:9).
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Depth. Hebrew, "sides," (ver. 13.) or holes dug out…
Depth. Hebrew, "sides," (ver. 13.) or holes dug out of a cavern. (Calmet)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain to hell--to Sheol (Isa 14:6), thou who hast said,…
to hell--to Sheol (Isa 14:6), thou who hast said, "I will ascend into heaven" (Mat 11:23).
sides of the pit--antithetical to the "sides of the north" (Isa 14:13). Thus the reference is to the sides of the sepulcher round which the dead were arranged in niches. But MAURER here, as in Isa 14:13, translates, "the extreme," or innermost parts of the sepulchre: as in Eze 32:23 (compare Sa1 24:3).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 15. Down to hell — To hades, as in…
15. Down to hell — To hades, as in Mat_11:23.
To the sides — To the recesses — the side burial places. The image is taken from the shelves and recesses of sepulchres.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 15. thou shalt be brought down to Sheol] Such…
15. thou shalt be brought down to Sheol] Such is the end of the “vaulting ambition that o’erleaps itself.” The Babylonian Hades (Aralu) seems to have been conceived as situated under the mountain of the gods. The pit means Sheol, and the sides of the pit are its inmost recesses, the most dismal part of a land of darkness. These apparently are reserved for those who have not obtained honourable burial on earth (see below on Isa_14:18-20).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (15) Yet thou shalt be brought . . .—We…
(15) Yet thou shalt be brought . . .—We note in the use of the same words (“ the sides, or recesses,” of the pit), as in the previous verse, the contrast of an indignant sarcasm. Yes, the prophet seems to say, the proud king has found his way to those “recesses;” but they are not in heaven, but in Hades.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Thou shalt be brought down; rather, thou art brought…
Thou shalt be brought down; rather, thou art brought down (comp. vers. 9-11). The sides of the pit; or, the recesses the "lowest parts" of the pit. With those words the third stanza terminates.
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain Heb. "Sheol," Also; Is 14:9 (See Scofield "Hab 2:5").
hell
Heb. "Sheol," Also; Is 14:9 (See Scofield "Hab 2:5").
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Connecting Statement:
Connecting Statement:
This is part of the taunt song that the Israelites will sing to the king of Babylon.
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Yet you are now brought down to Sheol
This can be stated in active form. AT: "But now God has sent you down to Sheol" (See: Active or Passive)
Is this the man
The people will use this question either to mock the king of Babylon, or to express their shock at what has happened to him. AT: "Surely, this is not the man" (See: Rhetorical Question)
who made the earth tremble
Possible meanings are 1) the earth trembled as the king's army marched to conquer people, or 2) this refers to the people of the earth trembling in fear of him. (See: Metonymy)
shook kingdoms
Possible meanings are 1) this is a metaphor for "conquered kingdoms" or 2) this is metonymy for "terrified the people of kingdoms." (See: Metaphor and Metonymy)
who made the world like a wilderness
"who made the places where people lived into a wilderness"
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Hades
kingdom
world
desert
prison
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 14:15-17 This is a restatement of 14:9-11. The dead…
14:15-17 This is a restatement of 14:9-11. The dead spirits inhabiting the place of the dead will be startled and amazed that the Babylonian king, who ruled the world with his merciless might, has absolutely no power in death.
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