Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
above . . . God—In Daniel 8:10, "stars" express earthly potentates. "The stars" are often also used to express heavenly principalities (Job 38:7).
mount of the congregation—the place of solemn meeting between God and His people in the temple at Jerusalem. In Daniel 11:37, and II Thessalonians 2:4, this is attributed to Antichrist.
sides of the north—namely, the sides of Mount Moriah on which the temple was built; north of Mount Zion (Psalms 48:2). However, the parallelism supports the notion that the Babylonian king expresses himself according to his own, and not Jewish opinions (so in Isaiah 10:10) thus "mount of the congregation" will mean the northern mountain (perhaps in Armenia) fabled by the Babylonians to be the common meeting-place of their gods. "Both sides" imply the angle in which the sides meet; and so the expression comes to mean "the extreme parts of the north." So the Hindus place the Meru, the dwelling-place of their gods, in the north, in the Himalayan mountains. So the Greeks, in the northern Olympus. The Persian followers of Zoroaster put the Ai-bordsch in the Caucasus north of them. The allusion to the stars harmonizes with this; namely, that those near the North Pole, the region of the aurora borealis (compare see on Job 23:9; Job 37:22) [MAURER, Septuagint, Syriac].
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 14:13:
Job 20:6
Job 26:7
Job 37:22
Psalms 48:2-3
Isaiah 14:12
Isaiah 14:15
Isaiah 30:33
Jeremiah 6:22
Jeremiah 51:48
Ezekiel 28:2
Ezekiel 32:23
Ezekiel 38:17
Daniel 8:10
Daniel 11:45
Amos 6:10
Obadiah 1:4
Jonah 1:5
Zechariah 11:17
Ephesians 6:12
2 Thessalonians 2:4
1 Timothy 3:6
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