Isaiah 14:15

“Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, &c.] Into a very low and miserable condition; (see <401123>Matthew 11:23) instead of ascending to heaven: or “to the grave”; though, inasmuch as afterwards a burial is denied him, the word may be taken for the infernal pit, and so is, as much as can be, opposed to heaven; and this will be true of antichrist, when the beast and false prophet will be cast alive into the lake of fire, (<661920>Revelation 19:20): to the sides of the pit; instead of being on the mount of the congregation in the sides of the north; another word for hell, the pit of corruption, and the bottomless pit. The Targum is, “to the ends of the lake of the house of perdition;” the…”

“to hell--to Sheol (Isa 14:6), thou who hast said, "I will ascend into heaven" (Mat 11:23). sides of the pit--antithetical to the "sides of the north" (Isa 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 Isa 14:13, translates, "the extreme," or innermost parts of the sepulchre: as in Eze 32:23 (compare Sa1 24:3).”

“Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell - Hebrew, ‘To sheol’ (compare Isaiah 14:9). To the sides of the pit - The word ‘pit,’ here, is evidently synonymous with “hell” or “hades,” represented as a deep, dark region under ground. The dead were often buried in caves, and the descent was often dark and dreary, to the vaults where they reposed. Hence, it is always represented as going down; or, as the “inferior” regions. The ‘sides of the pit’ here stand opposed to the ‘sides of the north.’ He had sought to “ascend” to the one; he should be “brought down” to the other. The reference here is, doubtless, to the land of shades; to the dark and dismal regions where the departed dead are supposed to…”

“14:15-17 This is a restatement of 14:9-11. The dead spirits inhabiting the place of the dead will be startled and amazed that the Babylonian king, who ruled the world with his merciless might, has absolutely no power in death.”

“thou: Isa 14:3-11; Eze 28:8, Eze 28:9; Mat 11:23; Act 12:22, Act 12:23; Rev 19:20 to the: Eze 32:23 Isaiah 14:16”