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- Chapter 14
- Verse 15
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
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,…
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…
Cambridge Bible
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 underthe mountain of the…
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