18All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
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Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit. …
And when they were departed from him,(for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.
And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and toward his house.
What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
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 wh…
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