Isaiah 14:26 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁶This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.

Isaiah 14:26 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 23:9
The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
Exodus 15:12
Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, the earth swallowed them.
Zephaniah 3:6-8
I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant. …
Isaiah 5:25
Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Topics

Armies Asshur Assyria Babel Babylon Chaldea Government Mesopotamia

Commentary

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

(vv. 24-32)

The destruction of Babylon and the Chaldean empire was a thing at a great distance; the empire had not risen to any considerable height when its fall was here foretold: it was almost 200 years from this prediction of Babylon’s fall to the accomplishment of it. Now the people to whom Isaiah prophesied might ask, “What is this to us, or what shall we be the better for it, and what assurance shall we…

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

(vv. 26)

26. This is ... purpose ... whole earth--A hint that the prophecy embraces the present world of all ages in its scope, of which the purpose concerning Babylon and Assyria, the then representatives of the world power, is but a part. hand ... stretched out upon--namely, in punishment (Is 5:25).