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Isaiah 28:10

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line, that is, rule upon rule; here a little and there a little, the gist of their attempted reproach being that the prophet was wearying their souls with a mass of little rules and precepts, directions and warnings in wearisome repetition, and without a right plan and order.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 28:10. _FOR PRECEPT_ MUST BE _UPON PRECEPT_] The original is remarkably abrupt and sententious. The hemistichs are these: - לצו צו לצו צו כי _latsav tsav latsav tsav ki_...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR PRECEPT MUST BE UPON PRECEPT - This is probably designed to ridicule the concise and sententious manner of the prophets, and especially the fact that they dwelt much upon the same elementary truth...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    3. THE SIX WOES OF THE PROPHET, JUDGMENT RUINS AND RESTORATION GLORIES TO COME (28-35) CHAPTER 28 The First Woe and the Message of Assurance 1. _Ephraim addressed (Isaiah 28:1)_ 2. _Jerusalem equall...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JERUSALEM ALSO IS THREATENED WITH DESTRUCTION. But Jerusalem like Ephraim reels with intoxication, the priests and prophets especially. The prophet is not steady in his vision, the priest when pronoun...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    FOR. For [say they] mimicking the prophet as though he were teaching little children in. school. MUST BE: or, [hath been]. The verse then reads: "For it is _zav lazav, zav lazav kav lakav, kav lakav...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The occasion of this remarkable encounter was probably a feast held to celebrate the renunciation of allegiance to Assyria. Isaiah has surprised the drunkards over their cups and administered some suc...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The topers proceed to mock, in stammering drunken tones, the excited utterance and the wearisome iterations of the prophet's teaching. Translate with R.V. (marg.) FOR IT IS PRECEPT UPON PRECEPT … RULE...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    WHOM SHALL HE TEACH KNOWLEDGE?— This period, though different in words, is the same in sense with that preceding. The meaning is, that the teachers, priests, and elders of the people, whose duty it wa...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    V. EMANCIPATION NOT FROM EGYPT Chapter S 28 - 35 A. FOUNDATION THAT IS FIRM, Chapter S 28-29 1. STUPIDITY TEXT: Isaiah 28:1-13 1 Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fa...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people, -The prophet now turns to Judah, a gracious promise to the remnant ("residue...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    This chapter must be assigned (Isaiah 28:1) to a date prior to the capture of Samaria by the Assyrians (722 b.c.) and fall of the northern kingdom. 1-6. Samaria's luxury and self-indulgence pave the...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The people's mockery continued. _Must be_] RV 'is.' PRECEPT.. LINE] The words in Heb. are monosyllables, such as would be used in teaching little children....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Even the plain words that Isaiah used to warn the leaders sounded like nonsense to them. They complain that his words are just strange sounds....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 28 The next section of the Book of Isaiah is from Chapter 28 to Chapter 33. These Cha...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֣י צַ֤ו לָ צָו֙ צַ֣ו לָ צָ֔ו...

  • 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

    THE DECAY OF AN INTEMPERATE PEOPLE Isaiah 28:1-13 A new series of prophecies begins here and extends to Isaiah 32:20. Samaria is described as a faded crown or garland on the nation's head because it...

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

    Here begins the third and last circle of the first division of the book. It consists of a series of prophecies concerning the chosen people and the world. In this chapter we have a graphic revelation...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    For (i) precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little: (i) They must have one thing often repeated....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Command, &c. This is said in the person of the Jews, resisting the repeated commands of God, and still putting him off. (Challoner) --- They deride the prophets, speaking words of no meaning, as if th...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here is another solemn charge, and more pointed than the former. Errors are not only found in Ephraim, but in Judah; not only among the carnal, but the professor. Yea, God's ministers, both prophet an...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    10._For precept must be on precept. _This shews plainly that the Lord complains of spending his labor to no purpose in instructing this unteachable people, just as if one were to teach children, who m...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 28 sets before us the first elements of these final scenes in the history of this wonderful people. The scourge comes from the north. Ephraim is invaded as by an overflowing torrent, by a temp...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR PRECEPT [MUST BE] UPON PRECEPT, PRECEPT UPON PRECEPT,.... Signifying, that they must be dealt with as children were, when first instructed in the rudiments of a language, first had one rule given...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little: Ver. 10. _For precept must be upon precept._] Children are of weak under...

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

    _Whom shall he_ Namely, God, or his prophet, or minister; _teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine?_ Who is there among this people, that are capable and willing to be taught th...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    MUST BE: Or, hath been...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    5-15 The prophet next turns to Judah, whom he calls the residue of his people. Happy are those alone, who glory in the Lord of hosts himself. Hence his people get wisdom and strength for every servic...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    PRECEPT MUST BE UPON PRECEPT; they must be taught, like little children, slowly, and by leisure; the same things being oft repeated, because of their great dulness. LINE UPON LINE; one line of the boo...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 28:10 precept H6673 precept H6673 precept H6673 precept H6673 Line H6957 line H6957 line H6957 line H6957 li

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    HIS OPPONENT MOCK ISAIAH'S TEACHING (ISAIAH 28:9). Isaiah's opponents mock him because all that he does is proclaim a repetitive message. In their view that is to treat them like children. But his rep...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Woe of Ephriam due to drunkenness. Prediction of Assyrian captivity of Ephriam. Ephriam's fate a warning to Judah. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The glorious beauty and the plenty of the lan...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 28:1. _The crown of pride._ Sebaste, the ancient Samaria, is situated on a long mount of an oval figure, having first a fruitful valley, and then a circle of hills running round about it. _Maun...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _For precept mast be upon precept. .. line upon line_ A DRUNKEN JIBE The passage is commonly used in a sense the very opposite to that in which it was originally employed. It is commonly taken as a...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Whom shall He teach knowledge?_ THE SCOFFING DRUNKARDS They scoff at the prophet, that intolerable moralist. They are full-grown and free; he need not teach them knowledge Isaiah 11:9), and explain...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 28:1 God’s Sovereign Word Spoken into the World: “Ah!” God controls history (chs. Isaiah 28:1), moving events toward final judgment and salvation (chs.

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 28:9 The priests and prophets dismiss Isaiah’s message as too simplistic (compare 1 Corinthians 2:14)....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    EARLY RELIGIOUS TRAINING (_Sunday School Anniversary Sermon_.) Isaiah 28:9. _Whom shall He teach knowledge?_ &c. Whether we regard these verses as the language of the drunkards of Ephraim, deriding t...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION VII. RENEWED DENUNCIATIONS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH (CH. 28-31.) EXPOSITION ISAIAH 28:1 A WARNING TO SAMARIA. The prophet has now east his eagle glance

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter 28. Now the prophet turns to the local present issues. He is now... he's gone off down the road to the end of things. Now he comes back and he begins to speak of the Northern Kingdom, the majo...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 36:15; 2 Chronicles 36:16; 2 Timothy 3:7; Deuteronomy 6:1;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    For — They must be taught like little children, because of their great dullness. Line — One line of the book after another, as children are taught to read....

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