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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Isaiah 19:2

I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians; I will raise civil wars among them. Kingdom against kingdom; for although all Egypt was now one kingdom, and under one king, yet not many years after this time it was divided into twelve several kingdoms, between whom there were many and cruel wars, as is related by the historians of those times, and particularly by Herodotus and Diodorus.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND I WILL SET - (סכסכתי _sı̂ksaketı̂y_). This word (from סכך _sākak_) means properly “to cover,” to spread over, to hide, conceal, to protect. Another signification of the verb is, to weave, to inte...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 19 The Burden of Egypt 1. _The judgment announced (Isaiah 19:1)_ 2. _Egypt blest with Israel in the last days (Isaiah 19:16) _ Egypt has passed through many judgments. Hundreds of years after...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH 19. ORACLE ON EGYPT. This is one of the most difficult Chapter s in the book. It falls into two sections, Isaiah 19:1 and Isaiah 19:18. If Isaiah 19:1 is in the main from Isaiah, it probably re...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SET THE EGYPTIANS, &C. Referring to the anarchy consequent on the defeat of Egypt by Sargon (688 B.C.)...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The dissolution of the Egyptian nationality by the judicial intervention of Jehovah....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jehovah speaks. The description of anarchy and civil war recalls ch. Isaiah 3:5; Isaiah 9:18 ff. _I will set … Egyptians_ Lit. I WILL STIR UP (see ch. Isaiah 9:11) EGYPT AGAINST EGYPT the general expr...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND I WILL SET THE EGYPTIANS AGAINST THE EGYPTIANS— Two principal misfortunes of Egypt, on which the rest depend, are related in this prophesy; the _first,_ a civil war to arise in Egypt, with its con...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CHAPTER NINETEEN 2. EGYPT TEXT: Isaiah 19:1-15 1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, Jehovah rideth upon a swift cloud, and cometh unto Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall tremble at his presence; and the...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. I WILL S...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE JUDGMENT, ON EGYPT A prophecy concerning Egypt, probably belonging to the same period as Isaiah 18, and designed to show the speedy collapse of Egypt's power, on which a strong political party in...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Civil war rages between the petty princes of lower Egypt....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    God is causing these quarrels to happen. He will greatly upset all kinds of relations. So the *Egyptians will be even less able to oppose any attack by an enemy....

  • 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 19 GOD WILL PUNISH EGYPT V1 God gave this special message to Isaiah...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ סִכְסַכְתִּ֤י מִצְרַ֨יִם֙ בְּ מִצְרַ֔יִם וְ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XVII ISAIAH TO THE FOREIGN NATIONS 736-702 B.C. Isaiah 14:24; Isaiah 15:1; Isaiah 16:1; Isaiah 17:1;...

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

    These two Chapter s (19, 20) contain the burden of Egypt. Its doom is first declared (19: 1-15). Jehovah's advent will result in the destruction of idols, in civil war, in failure in counsel, and in t...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall (c) fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, [and] kingdom against kingdom. (c) A...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Kingdom. Under the twelve kings. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here is the same subject of national distress for the burden of Egypt, as that of Damascus or Moab, though the end differs: foreign wars, and domestic jealousies are predicted: so that every man's han...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    2._And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians. _Here he describes more particularly the calamity which the Lord had determined to bring on Egypt. By the expression, _I will set, _he means the...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23. In Chapter s 19 and 20 Egypt shall be smitten in that day; but Jehovah will heal it. Egypt, Assyria, and Israel shall together be blessed of Je...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND I WILL SET THE EGYPTIANS AGAINST THE EGYPTIANS,.... Or mingle and confound them together; in which confusion they should fall upon and destroy one another, as the Midianites did: the phrase is exp...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, [and] kingdom against kingdom._ Ver. 2...

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

    _I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians_ Two principal calamities to befall Egypt are foretold in this prophecy; the first of which is here described: civil wars should arise among them. _They...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A THREAT OF DESTRUCTION...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians, inciting them to civil war and anarchy such as we are told of by secular historians; AND THEY SHALL FIGHT EVERY ONE AGAINST HIS BROTHER AND EVERY ON...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    SET: _ Heb._ mingle...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-17 God shall come into Egypt with his judgments. He will raise up the causes of their destruction from among themselves. When ungodly men escape danger, they are apt to think themselves secure; but...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 19:2 set H5526 (H8773) Egyptians H4714 Egyptians H4714 Everyone H376 fight H3898 (H8738) brother H251 everyone...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘The burden of Egypt. Behold Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. And the idols of Egypt will be removed at his presence, and the heart of Egypt will melt in the midst of it. And I will...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Burden of Egypt, looking forward, through desolations, to Kingdom blessing with Israel. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The barbarous usage which the enemies of God have given His people, eve...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 19:4. _A cruel lord._ Such was Nebuchadnezzar; and after him, Cambyses, and other Persian kings. One oppression succeeded another, as illustrated in Daniel 11. Isaiah 19:11. _The princes of Zoa...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians_ DIVINE PROVIDENCE IN CIVIL STRIFE This method of administration, we say, obtains and prevails in all ages. This is the meaning of many a controve...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 19:1 The fifth oracle concerns Egypt. Judah turned to Egypt for deliverance from Assyria. God has the power both to judge and to save Egypt, but Judah would rather trust Egypt th...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    TRUE NATIONAL GREATNESS Isaiah 19:1; Isaiah 19:14. _The burden of Egypt, &c._ The prophecies of Isaiah take a wide range, embrace the fortunes of almost every nation, however remote, with whom the Is...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 19:1 THE BURDEN OF EGYPT. It has been doubted whether this prophecy refers to the conquest of Egypt by Piankhi, as related in the monument which he set up at Napata, or to that by E...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now he turns to Egypt. The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 14:16; 1 Samuel 14:20; 2 Chronicles 20:22; 2 Chronicles 20:23;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    I will set — Egypt was now one kingdom, but not many years after this time it was divided into twelve kingdoms, between whom there were many and cruel wars....

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