John Calvin Commentary Isaiah 14:18

"All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory, every one in his own house." — Isaiah 14:18 (ASV)

All the kings of the nations. He contrasts the king of Babylon with other kings, in order to show that, after his death, he will be more wretched than all the rest. And so, by comparison, he gives a broader view of the judgment of God, by which he would avenge the injuries done to his Church. This passage is the reason I do not venture to limit what Isaiah here foretells about the king of Babylon to the person of Nebuchadnezzar alone, because it does not appear from history that he was denied burial. The Jews, indeed, relate that Evil-merodach ordered him to be dug out of his grave because the nobles of the kingdom would not venture to pay homage to him unless there was evidence that his father was dead; but Jerome, though otherwise credulous enough, treats this as a fable.

He therefore describes not a single man, but a whole dynasty; and, in like manner, when Scripture speaks of Antichrist, it includes the whole duration of his reign. Consequently, as if in the person of one man, the Prophet ridicules the pride of all those tyrants and threatens what their end will be, namely, that they will not have a spot of earth to bury them, though formerly they were insatiable whirlpools and could not be satisfied with any possessions. Those who have scarcely a foot of earth still retain their right to a grave, which was also highly prized by the patriarchs; for it was considered disgraceful to be deprived of it.