Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 14:21

21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers ; that they do not rise , nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities .

O ye Medes and Persians, cut off all the Branches of the Royal Family of Babylon.

In the Guilt whereof the Children are justly involved, partly because of that Community of Nature and Interest which is between Parents and Children, which makes them for the most part bear a share with them, as in their▪ Rewards and Advantages, so also in their Punishments and Miseries; and partly because they justified their Sins by their Impenitency, and Imitation of their wicked Example.

i. e. Not recover their former Splendour and Power.

Erected by them, either as Instruments of Tyranny, to keep the Country round about them in Slavery; or as Monuments of their Power and Riches, as Babylon was, Dan. 4. 30.

Marginal references: Exod. 20. 5. Mat. 2[illegible: 1+ letters]. [illegible: 1+ letters]5▪