'The children of Israel,' in Isaiah 14:2, signify the Gentiles.

In Jeremiah 23:8, 'Israel' represents the spiritual natural church.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 768)

In Isaiah 2:20, this signifies people who are in spiritual darkness, i.e., in falsities and their derivative evils. To how themselves, or to fling them to is to worship such things as are external and empty of spiritual life. (Arcana Coelestia 8932[4], 10582[5])