Lucifer or Day-star?

Should Isaiah 14:12 read “Lucifer” as the KJV or Morning Star/Day Star like modern versions? Is there an occult agenda behind this change?

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 “Lucifer” or “Morning Star” (Day Star) in Isaiah 14:12? by Will Kinney

“Lucifer” or “Day Star” in Isaiah 14:12? (KJVToday)

Is “Lucifer” the Devil in Isaiah 14:12? – The KJV Argument against Modern Translations by Dan Wallace

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry only mentions the Serpent in the Garden of Eden: “That he shall vie with the God of Israel, of whom he had indeed heard glorious things, that he had his residence above the heights of the clouds. “But thither,” says he, “will I ascend, and be as great as he; I will be like him whom they call the Most High.” It is a gracious ambition to covet to be like the Most Holy, for he has said, Be you holy, for I am holy; but it is a sinful ambition to aim to be like the Most High, for he has said, He that exalteth himself shall be abased, and the devil drew our first parents in to eat forbidden fruit by promising them that they should be as gods.”(https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/mhc/Isa/Isa_014.cfm)

No other mention or “devil” is made. He does however mention “morning star”:

“How hast thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer! son of the morning! v. 11, 12. The king of Babylon shone as brightly as the morning star, and fancied that wherever he came he brought day along with him; and has such an illustrious prince as this fallen, such a star become a clod of clay? Did ever any man fall from such a height of honour and power into such an abyss of shame and misery?” This has been commonly alluded to (and it is a mere allusion) to illustrate the fall of the angels, who were as morning stars (Job 38:7), but how have they fallen! How art thou cut down to the ground, and levelled with it, that didst weaken the nations! God will reckon with those that invade the rights and disturb the peace of mankind, for he is King of nations as well as of saints. Now this reception of the king of Babylon into the regions of the dead, which is here described, surely is something more than a flight of fancy, and is designed to teach these solid truths:-

  • [1.] That there is an invisible world, a world of spirits, to which the souls of men remove at death and in which they exist and act in a state of separation from the body.
  • [2.] That separate souls have acquaintance and converse with each other, though we have none with them: the parable of the rich man and Lazarus intimates this.
  • [3.] That death and hell will be death and hell indeed to those that fall unsanctified from the height of this world’s pomps and the fulness of its pleasures. Son, remember, Lu. 16:25.” (https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/mhc/Isa/Isa_014.cfm)