Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
to hell--to Sheol (Isaiah 14:6), thou who hast said, "I will ascend into heaven" (Matthew 11:23).
sides of the pit--antithetical to the "sides of the north" (Isaiah 14:13). Thus the reference is to the sides of the sepulcher round which the dead were arranged in niches. But MAURER here, as in Isaiah 14:13, translates, "the extreme," or innermost parts of the sepulchre: as in Ezekiel 32:23 (compare 1 Samuel 24:3).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Isaiah 14:12
Isaiah 30:33
Ezekiel 26:20
Ezekiel 32:23
Jonah 1:5
Ephesians 6:12
1 Timothy 3:6
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