Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Isaiah 14:8
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Isaiah14:8
8. the fir trees--now left undisturbed. Probably a kind of evergreen.
rejoice at thee--(Psa 96:12). At thy fall (Psa 35:19, 24).
no feller--as formerly, when thou wast in power (Is 10:34; 37:24).
Is 14:9-11. The Scene Changes from Earth to Hell.
Hades (the Amenthes of Egypt), the unseen abode of the departed; some of its tenants, once mighty monarchs, are represented by a bold personification as rising from their seats in astonishment at the descent among them of the humbled king of Babylon. This proves, in opposition to Warburton [The Divine Legation], that the belief existed among the Jews that there was a Sheol or Hades, in which the "Rephaim" or manes of the departed abode.
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