Isaiah 14:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

Isaiah 14:15 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 11:23
And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
Acts 12:22-23
And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. …
Ezekiel 32:23
Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.
Luke 10:15
And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell.
Revelation 19:20
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4-23)

The kings of Babylon, successively, were the great enemies and oppressors of God’s people, and therefore the destruction of Babylon, the fall of the king, and the ruin of his family, are here particularly taken notice of and triumphed in. In the day that God has given Israel rest they shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon. We must not rejoice when our enemy falls, as ours; but whe…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 15)

15. to hell--to Sheol (Is 14:6), thou who hast said, “I will ascend into heaven” (Mt 11:23). sides of the pit--antithetical to the “sides of the north” (Is 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 Is 14:13, translates, “the extreme,” or innermost parts of the sepulchre: as in Eze 32:23 (compare 1Sa 24:3).