Isaiah 14:20
Thou shall not be joined with them in burial
The kings before mentioned; not that the sense is that he should
not be interred in the same place they were, or lie in the same
stately monuments they did, for that was never designed by him or
others; but that he should not be buried in like manner, be
embalmed as they, or have odours burned for him, or lie in such
state and pomp, or have a "pyramid" or "mausoleum", or any rich
monument, erected over him; unless this can be understood of his
ancestors, the kings that were before him; and the sense be, that
he should not have a burial with the kings of Babylon, or be
inferred where they were, but, as before said, should be cast
out, or be kept from the place of sepulture. The Targum is,
``thou shall not be as one of them in the grave;''
shall not be like them, or equal to them, in the glory and pomp of
a funeral, not having the same funeral rites; obsequies, and
ornaments they have had. So the whore of Rome shall have no
funeral, but the kings of the earth will eat her flesh, and burn
her with fire (
Revelation
17:16 ) ,
because thou hast destroyed thy
land;
not only other lands and nations, but also his own, and the
inhabitants of it, by his tyrannical government, by levies and
exactions, by mulcts and fines, on various pretences: or, "hast
corrupted, thy land"
F7; which phrase is used of mystical
Babylon, (
Revelation
19:2 ) see also (
Revelation
11:18 ) whose land or earth is the whole Romish jurisdiction,
corrupted by her idolatries, and wasted and destroyed by the
various methods used to drain away the substance thereof:
[and] slain thy people;
put them to death at pleasure, without any just cause, for trifling
matters; which is often done by arbitrary princes. Jarchi and
Kimchi apply this to Nebuchadnezzar's slaying the wise men of
Babylon, because they could not tell him his dream, and the
interpretation of it. It is true of antichrist slaying such, that
would not worship his image, and receive his mark, (
Revelation
13:10 Revelation
13:15 ) .
The seed of evildoers shall never be
renowned;
or, "not for ever"; though they may have a name, and be very famous
for a while, yet not always; in process of time their honour is
laid in the dust; or, "shall not be called for ever"
F8; their
name and their memory shall not always last; their name shall be
cut off, and their memory shall rot; they shall have none to keep
up their name, and they shall not be spoken of with respect; such a
seed of evildoers were Belshazzar and his family, who descended
from Nebuchadnezzar and Evilmerodach, and were at once extinct, as
follows: