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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 31 - Introduction

Chapter 31 The Fifth Woe On Those Who Trust To Egypt And To The Strength Of Their Horse Propelled Armaments. Rather They Must Trust In Yahweh Who Will Fight For Them.

This chapter is a chapter of contrast. On the one hand are those who fatally trust in Egypt because of their horses and chariots, And on the other the call goes out to trust in Yahweh Who will deliver without needing either, for He will hover over Jerusalem as He did at the Exodus and will smite their enemy with His voice.

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See also Isaiah 31 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    It is evident that this chapter was composed at about the same time as the preceding, and relates to the same subject. The general object, like the former, is to dissuade the Jews from their contempla...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH 28-31. In the main these Chapter s belong to the period before Sennacherib's invasion in 701 (pp. 59, 71f.). Special prominence is given to the project of an alliance with Egypt, which was stre...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Impossibility of Human Help: the Certainty of Divine Protection The alliance with Egypt (now apparently consummated) is again the starting point of this fifth "Woe." As in ch. Isaiah 29:5-7, ther...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _THE PROPHET SHEWETH THE EXTREME FOLLY OF TRUSTING TO EGYPT, AND FORSAKING GOD: HE EXHORTETH TO CONVERSION: HE SHEWETH THE FALL OF ASSYRIA._ _Before Christ 713._ THIS and the following chapter, whic...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    EXAMINATION Chapter S THIRTY THROUGH THIRTY-ONE DEFINITION (Define the following words or phrases as they were discussed in the comments.) 1. _burden_ of the beasts of the South 2. _Rahab_ that...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:1 (d-0) (The title of this book, 'Isaiah'), Meaning, 'Salvation of Jah.' see Psalms 68:4 ....

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 31 This chapter denounces woe to those that trusted in the Egyptians; assures the Jews of God's care and protection of them; calls them to repentance, and foretells the destruc...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    * The sin and folly of seeking help from Egypt. (1-5) God's care for Jerusalem. (6-9)...

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