What Does Isaiah 14:18 Mean in the King James?

All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.

Isaiah 14:18 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

THE KEY

The “glory” in which every king lies is kavod, their weight made visible at rest.

THE MEANING

Every ruler lies in honor, each in his own house. The verse lets you see power after its movement ends: its weight remains, held in a place of rest.

THE ROOT

כָּבוֹד

kavod

GROWS FROM

כבד

k-b-d

To be heavy or weighty.

In Hebrew, kavod is the weight carried by something of consequence; “glory” and “weight” belong to the same word family. The verse pictures rulers resting with the recognized weight of their station, each in a place of his own.

ALSO GROWS

kaved: Heavy, weighty.

כָּבֵד

It makes the sense of weight inside “glory” audible: these kings lie with consequence, even at rest.

kibbed: To honor, treat as weighty.

כִּבֵּד

This verb shows how weight becomes honor, the recognition given to someone or something of consequence.

THE PATTERN

Public honor takes shape in the place where a ruler is laid to rest.

So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

1 Kings 2:10 · KJVDavid’s rest is bound to the city that bears his name, placing the dead ruler within a place of belonging.

And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.

2 Chronicles 32:33 · KJVHezekiah’s burial place and the honor shown at his death give bodily form to the connection between rest and recognized weight.

And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.

Matthew 27:59-60 · KJVThe careful wrapping and prepared tomb make honor visible in how the body is laid to rest.

THE THREAD

But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.

Isaiah 14:19 · KJV

The next line breaks the repeated image: the king addressed is cast out of his grave, unlike the kings who lie in honor, each in his own house. The contrast makes “all of them” a measure of the disgrace described next.

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