Who is Isaiah 14:20 talking about?

[ken]

Who is Isaiah 14:20 talking about?

isaiah 14:20 "You will not be united with them in burial, Because you have ruined your country, You have slain your people. May the offspring of evildoers not be mentioned forever.


Thank You
Ken

[Fat]

Who is Isaiah 14:20 talking about?

isaiah 14:20 "You will not be united with them in burial, Because you have ruined your country, You have slain your people. May the offspring of evildoers not be mentioned forever.


Thank You
Ken

Hello Ken
I'll take a stab at this and say Nebuchadnezzar is being addressed hear. 

[Macuser]

Hi Ken

Ran into this commentary :

14:1-23
We look beyond ‘the king of Babylon’(4). We see Satan, full of pride - ‘I will climb to the highest heavens and be like the Most High’- , fallen - ‘How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer...’- , and brought to nothing - ‘you will be brought down to the pit of hell...’(12-15). We look also at ‘the king of Tyre’. Again, we see Satan - ‘you were on the holy mountain of God... you sinned; so I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God... your heart was proud... you have come to a dreadful end...’(Ezekiel 28:12-19). Satan (the devil) wages war against the Lord and His people. The final outcome of this war is certain - defeat for Satan. Christ has won the victory: By ‘the authority of Christ’, Satan ‘has been thrown down’. In Christ, we have the victory: ‘they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb ...’(Revelation 12:7-12).

Hope that helps.

[JB Horn]

Ken

Ok I'll give this a try. If you go back to verse eight and move forward I think you'll see that he is addressing all the kings that have come against Israel or the Jewish people. It's being made clear the existence of hell as an eternal punishment for these leaders.

This is just my take on it but it seems that he wants them to know that their death will not be the end of it, and that the punishment shall endure long after.

IHS
JB