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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Isaiah 11:15

Tongue. Gulf of the Mediterranean, near Pelusium, or the seven mouths of the river Nile. The country was ravaged by Sennacherib, Cambyses, Alex.[Alexander the Great?], and Epiphanes, chap. xix. 4., &c. The Jewish captives shall return thence, chap. l. 3., and Zacharias x. 10.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 11:15. _THE LORD - SHALL SMITE IT IN THE SEVEN STREAMS_ - "Smite with a drought"] The _Chaldee_ reads החריב _hecherib_; and so perhaps the _Septuagint_, who have ερημωσει, the word by wh...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND THE LORD - The prophet goes on with the description of the effect which shall follow the return of the scattered Jews to God. The language is figurative, and is here drawn from that which was the...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 11 The Coming King and His Kingdom 1. _The King: Who He is and what He will do (Isaiah 11:1)_ 2. _The peace and blessing He brings (Isaiah 11:6)_ 3. The gathering of scattered Israel (Isaiah...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE RETURN OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH FROM THE DISPERSION, AND VICTORIOUS ALLIANCE AGAINST THEIR ANCIENT FOES. This is probably post-exilic. The ideas are characteristic of that period Israel's spiritual pri...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    TONGUE. gulf. HIS MIGHTY. the full force, spirit, or blast, as in Isaiah 11:4 ("breath"). WIND. Hebrew. _ruach_. THE RIVER: i.e. the Euphrates. DRYSHOD. Hebrew in shoes....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A miraculous passage prepared for the return of the exiles. The allusions to the Exodus are palpable and extend to the next chapter....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    11:(10) Isaiah 11:11-16. A Prophecy of the Return from Exile...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Cf. Zechariah 10:10 f. _shall utterly destroy_ lit. "lay under the ban." But the reading of several ancient versions (_heḥěrîb_for _heḥěrîm_) gives a better sense: DRY UP; cf. ch. Isaiah 50:2. _the to...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND THE LORD SHALL UTTERLY DESTROY— This is the last part of this illustrious prophesy, in which the prophet declares, that about that time in which God should establish the kingdom of his Son in the...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    DRAMATIC DELIVERANCE TEXT: Isaiah 11:10-16 10 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the root of Jesse, that standeth for an ensign of the peoples, unto him shall the nations seek; and his res...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over drysh...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1. ROD OUT OF THE STEM] RV 'shoot out of the stock,' implying that the tree has been cut down. The Assyrians have been compared in the vv. preceding to cedars, which when felled throw out no fresh suc...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    16. Isaiah pictures a miraculous deliverance of the exiles parallel to the former deliverance from Egypt. THE TONGUE, etc.] i.e. the Gulf of Akaba. TONGUE is used for an arm of the sea as in Joshua 15...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 11 THE KING WHO IS COMING V1 Like a branch that grows from a *stump...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    As still another example of his power, the *Lord makes his people’s return easier by his control of nature. STUMP ~ short lower piece of a tree that remains in the ground after the rest of the tree ha...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE TONGUE... — Better, as in Joshua 15:2; Joshua 15:5; Joshua 18:19, the “bay” or “gulf.” The “Egyptian sea” is the Gulf of Suez, and the prophet pictures to himself another marvel like the passage o...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הֶחֱרִ֣ים יְהוָ֗ה אֵ֚ת לְשֹׁ֣ון יָם ־מִצְר

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    BOOK 3 PROPHECIES FROM THE ACCESSION OF HEZEKIAH TO THE DEATH OF SARGON 727-705 B.C. THE prophecies with which we have been engaged (Chapter s 2-10:4) fall either before or during the great Assyrian...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A SONG OF THANKSGIVING Isaiah 11:10-16; Isaiah 12:1-6 The prophet's vision extends. He has seen the effect of redemption, as it emanates from Jesus Christ, upon the whole physical creation; now he be...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In this section the prophet's eyes are lifted toward the light of a far-off day. With judgment imminent, he yet sees the ultimate issue of it all. There is fist a description of a Coming One Isaiah 11...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And the LORD shall utterly destroy the (i) tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand (k) over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make [men] go o...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    How blessed is the account here given of the Gentile church. To this same root of Jesse, meaning Christ, shall the Gentiles seek. And that we might not lose sight of our elder brethren, the Jews, the...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    15._And the Lord will utterly destroy. _In this verse he means nothing else than that the Lord, by his amazing power, will open for his people a way, which formerly appeared to be shut up. He speaks f...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9:8-21, 10, 11, AND 12. In Isaiah 9:8 the Spirit, having given the great leading facts as to Messiah, Immanuel, resumes the general history of Israel without...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THE LORD SHALL UTTERLY DESTROY THE TONGUE OF THE EGYPTIAN SEA,.... Which Kimchi and Abarbinel interpret of the Egyptian river Sichor, or the Nile; others of a bay of the Egyptian sea, so called be...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make [men] go over drys...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And the Lord shall utterly destroy_ Shall not only divide it, as of old, but shall quite dry it up, that it may be a highway; _the tongue of the Egyptian sea_ The Red sea, which may well be called th...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Spread of the Messiah's Kingdom...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea, the fork of the Arabian Gulf known as the Red Sea, as at the time when the children of Israel left the house of their bondage; AND WI...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    DRYSHOD: _ Heb._ in shoes...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    10-16 When the gospel should be publicly preached, the Gentiles would seek Christ Jesus as their Lord and Saviour, and find rest of soul. When God's time is come for the deliverance of his people, mo...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SHALL UTTERLY DESTROY; shall not only divide it, as of old, but will quite dry it up, that it may be a highway, as it is explained in the next verse. THE TONGUE OF THE EGYPTIAN SEA; the Red Sea, which...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 11:15 LORD H3068 destroy H2763 (H8689) tongue H3956 Sea H3220 Egypt H4714 mighty H5868 wind H7307 shake...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH (ISAIAH 11:11). And now, as after Isaiah 2:5; Isaiah 9:7, we are suddenly brought abruptly down to earth again. The glory of the coming eternal kingdom has been rev...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Prophecy of the Davidic Kingdom and restoration of Israel. CHARACTERS: Christ, Holy Spirit. CONCLUSION: The great comfort in days of distress is the hope of the coming universal kingdom of...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 11:1. _A rod out of the stem of Jesse._ See the note on Isaiah 4:2. David's house had been cut down by Jehu, and latterly by the invasion against Ahaz: chap. 7. Now a branch shall arise out of...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea._ THE EGYPTIAN SEA AND THE RIVER The “tongue,” _i.e., _the bay (_cf. _Joshua 15:2) of the Red Sea (the Gulf of Suez) will be “banned,”...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse_ A PROPHECY CONCERNING MESSIAH THE PRINCE I. HIS RISE OUT OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID (Isaiah 11:1). II. HIS QUALIFICATIONS FOR HIS GREAT UNDERT...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    ISAIAH’S VISION OF THE KING AND OF HIS KINGDOM Chapter S 11 AND 12 This is one of the visions that Isaiah _saw_ (chap. Isaiah 1:1, Isaiah 2:1, &c.). He was a dreamer of dreams. With a keen perception,...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 11:1 A RENEWED PROPHECY OF MESSIAH AND OF HIS KINGDOM. This chapter is closely connected with the preceding. With the final destruction of Assyria, which, being cut down, sends out...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn to Isaiah, chapter 11, for the beginning of our study this evening. In the tenth chapter, the closing part of chapter 10 of Isaiah, and again, let me remind you that the chapter distinct...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Exodus 14:21; Exodus 7:19; Ezekiel 29:10; Ezekiel 30:12; Isaiah 19:16

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Destroy — Shall not only divide it, as of old, but dry it up, that it may be an high — way. The sea — The Red Sea, which may well be called the Egyptian sea, both because it borders upon Egypt, and be...

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