Why would other wicked rulers be excited to see the king of Babylon in hell?

Thomas R. Valletta

“The reception of the tyrant among the dead in Sheol [Hell] is described with vivid imagination. There is excitement and commotion, as there would be in any great center of population in the Orient, waiting for the arrival of a great potentate; only, this time they are expecting one whom they hated in life. Kings rise from their thrones and taunt him with questions, sneeringly: ‘Art thou become weak as we?’ (v. 10). Where is thy music? Look at the worms all over you!” (Reynolds and Sjodahl, Commentary on the Book of Mormon, 1:366).

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