Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
CONFIRMATION OF THIS BY THE HEREFORETOLD DESTRUCTION OF THE ASSYRIANS UNDER SENNACHERIB; (Isaiah 14:24-27)
choose—"set His choice upon." A deliberate predilection [HORSLEY]. Their restoration is grounded on their election (see Psalms 102:13-22).
strangers—proselytes (Esther 8:17; Acts 2:10; Acts 17:4, Acts 17:17). TACITUS, a heathen [Histories, 5.5], attests the fact of numbers of the Gentiles having become Jews in his time. An earnest of the future effect on the heathen world of the Jews' spiritual restoration (Isaiah 60:4-5, Isaiah 60:10; Micah 5:7; Zechariah 14:16; Romans 11:12).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 14:1:
Isaiah 13:22
Isaiah 45:14
Isaiah 60:14
Isaiah 61:5
Zechariah 1:17
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