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Isaiah 28:27

For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing-instrument, the threshing-sledge, neither is a cart-wheel, the broad wheel of the threshing-wagon, turned about upon the cumin, for either one of these seeds would be crushed by such a process; but the fitches, the black cumin, are beaten out with a staff and the cumin with a rod, the threshing-staff, or flail, being used in their case

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See also Isaiah 28:27 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 28:27-23. Four methods of threshing are here mentioned, by different instruments; the _flail_, the _drag_, the _wain_, and the _treading of the cattle_. The _staff_ or _flail_ was used f...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR THE FITCHES ARE NOT THRESHED WITH A THRESHING INSTRUMENT - The word used here (חרוּץ _chârûts_) denotes properly that which is pointed or sharp, and is joined with מורג _môrag_ in Isaiah 41:15...

  • 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

    THE HUSBANDMAN ADAPTS HIS METHODS TO THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF EACH CASE. This parable may perhaps not have been spoken to the same audience as Isaiah 28:7, but there is no valid reason for denying it to I...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THRESHING INSTRUMENT. Only here, and Isaiah 41:15....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A parable derived from husbandry. The motive of its insertion in this place was probably the different treatment meted out to Samaria and to Jerusalem. The precise point of the analogy is somewhat unc...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _with a threshing_instrument] the sledge (_ḥârûç_). _a cart wheel_ the wheel of a threshing wagon (_-ǎgâlâh_)....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Threshing is not bruising. Three methods of threshing are alluded to. (_a_) Beating with a rod or flail (cf. Judges 6:11; Ruth 2:17). (_b_) Treading with the feet of cattle (Deuteronomy 25:4;...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    GIVE YE EAR, &C.— We have here the fourth member of this section, in which this severe judgment of God denounced in the preceding verses, is defended by a parable taken from agriculture, wherein the p...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. STABILITY TEXT: Isaiah 28:14-29 14 Wherefore hear the word of Jehovah, ye scoffers, that rule this people that is in Jerusalem: 15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod. THE FITCH...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The second parable is about the way that the farmer harvests. God has taught him what to do with each of the various crops. • In a similar way, God teaches his people the best way to carry out their...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    FOR THE FITCHES ARE NOT THRESHED... — Better, _fennel seed,_ as before. The eye of the prophet passes from the beginning to the end of the husbandman’s work. He finds there also the varying methods of...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֣י לֹ֤א בֶֽ † חָרוּץ֙ י֣וּדַשׁ קֶ֔צַח...

  • 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

    TRUTH THE ONLY REFUGE Isaiah 28:14-29 In the beginning of Hezekiah's reign the Jewish leaders had made an alliance with Assyria, on whom they relied to protect them against any and all foes. But the...

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Saws, or heavy instruments. It would be thus crushed too much. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The chapter ends very graciously, in showing the Church, under the similitude of the husbandman, how the Lord takes care of his household. And as Jesus hath sweetly set forth the same blessed truths,...

  • 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 THE FITCHES ARE NOT THRESHED WITH A THRESHING INSTRUMENT,.... A wooden sledge, dray, or cart, drawn on wheels; the bottom of which was stuck with iron teeth, and the top filled with stones, to pre...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod. Ver. 27. _F...

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

    “Four methods of thrashing are here mentioned, by different instruments: the _flail_, the _drag_, the _wain_, and the _treading of cattle._ The _staff_, or _flail_, was used for the grain that was too...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    23-29 The husbandman applies to his calling with pains and prudence, in all the works of it according to their nature. Thus the Lord, who has given men this wisdom, is wonderful in counsel, and excel...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    A THRESHING INSTRUMENT; which then and there was made like a sled shod with iron, which was drawn by men or beasts over the sheafs of corn, to bruise them, and beat the grain out of them. A CART WHEEL...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 28:27 cummin H7100 threshed H1758 (H8714) sledge H2742 cartwheel H5699 H212 rolled H5437 (H8714) cummin...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PARABLE OF THE FARMER AND HIS CROPS (ISAIAH 28:23). The point behind this parable is that the wise farmer thinks carefully about what he is doing and does not get bogged down in one activity. He l...

  • 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 his God doth instruct him_ CHASTISING WITH JUDGMENT More literally and with better significance, “And he chastiseth it with judgment; his God doth instruct him. ” This judgment is shown in two...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The ploughman_ THE PARABLE OF THE PLOUGHMAN AND THE THRESHER 1. The general drift of the parable is obvious. The husbandman does not forever vex and wound the tender bosom of the earth with the kee...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 28:23 God’s dealings with his people, though “strange” (v. Isaiah 28:21), are wise. He can be trusted in everything....

  • 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 Kings 13:7; Amos 1:3; Isaiah 27:7; Isaiah 27:8; Isaiah 41:15;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    A threshing instrument — This then was made like a sledge shod with iron, which was drawn by men or beasts, over the sheafs of corn, to bruise them, and tear the grain out of them. A wheel — A lower w...

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