Daily Devotions
Isaiah
"Like a corpse trodden underfoot"
Text: Isaiah 14:19
THE FATE OF THE BABYLONIAN KINGS
Many kings end their days by being given grand, stately funerals. However, this would not be the fate of the wicked Babylonian kings.
“All the kings of the nations,
All of them, sleep in glory,
Everyone in his own house;
But you are cast out of your grave
Like an abominable branch,
Like the garment of those who are slain,
Thrust through with a sword,
Who go down to the stones of the pit,
Like a corpse trodden underfoot.
You will not be joined with them in burial,
Because you have destroyed your land
And slain your people.
The brood of evildoers shall never be named.”
Isaiah 14:18-20
1. Most kings
a) The kings of the nations are often adored.
b) When they die, they “sleep in glory”.
c) They have special “houses” in which they are entombed.
2. The Babylonian kings
a) They are cast out like “an abominable branch”.
b) They are gotten rid off as a filthy garment of a slain soldier.
c) They are just given a most ordinary soldier’s burial.
d) Their corpses are hurriedly put into stone pits and are trampled by the foot.
e) They would not be honoured in death.
3. Some reasons offered
a) They had destroyed lands.
b) They had slain their own people.
c) Their brood of children would never be held in high esteem.
d) The consequences of their wickedness would affect subsequent generations.