Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 14:13

13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven , I will exalt my throne above the stars of God : I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation , in the sides of the North .

I will advance my self above the State of a weak and mortal Man. Great Monarchs are easily induced, be their own vain Imaginations, and the Flattery of their Courtiers, to entertain an Opinion of their own Divinity; so far, that many of them have received and required Divine Worship to be paid to them.

Either, 1. above all other Kings and Potentates whom God hath set up; or, 2. above the most eminent Persons of God's Church and People, who are frequently called stars, as Dan. 8. 10. Revel. 1. 16, 20. & 12. 1. which sence the next Words favour.

I will establish my Royal Throne upon Mount Sion, where the Jews meet together to worship God.

This is added as a more exact Description of the Place of the Temple, which stood upon Mount Moriah, which was Northward from the Hill of Zion strictly so called, and was a part of the Hill of Zion largely so called. See on Psal. 48. 2.