Prepare slaughter for his children
These words are directed to the Medes and Persians, to prepare
instruments of slaughter, and make use of them; and prepare
themselves for the slaughter of the whole royal family,
Belshazzar and all his children. So it is threatened to Jezebel,
or the Romish antichrist, that all her children should be killed
with death, ( Revelation
2:23 ) : for the iniquity of their fathers;
they imitating and following them in their sins, partaking of
them, and filling up the measure of their iniquities: that
they do not rise, nor possess the land;
stand up and succeed him in the government of the land, as their
inheritance: nor fill the face of the world with
cities;
as their ancestors had done, which were built by them to
perpetuate their name and glory, and to keep the nations in awe
subdued by them. The Targum renders it, "with enemies"; which is
followed by Aben Ezra, Jarchi, and Kimchi; and so the Septuagint,
Syriac, and Arabic versions, "with wars"; to the great
disturbance of the peace of the world, and to the disquietude of
the inhabitants of it; which is a great plague to the world, and
a judgment in it.
Isaiah 14:21
