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cast out = flung out: out, or far away.
grave = sepulchre. Heb keber. See App-35.
abominable branch = a detested or despised scion.
that go down, &c. As those that go down . . . as, &c.
to. One school of Massorites reads "upon", another reads "up to".
stones. Cast upon those who were buried. No word has "evidently dropped out" of Isa_14:20; for Isa_14:19 does state that they were buried, but he was not.
pit = a rock-hewn burying place, as in Psa_28:1; Psa_30:3; Psa_88:5. Hebrew. bor. See note on Gen_21:19, showing the sense in which we are to understand Sheol in verses: Isa_11:15. Compare English word "bore. "Hebrew. bor rendered cistern, four times; dungeon, thirteen; fountain, one; well, nine; pit, thirty-nine times.