I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
Ver. 12. I will make a man more precious.] Quod rarum, carum. Men shall be reduced to a small number, not nobles only, sed triobolares homunciones, but peasants; nor shall any money be taken in exchange for lives.
Verse Isaiah 13:12. _I WILL MAKE A MAN MORE PRECIOUS THAN FINE GOLD-WEDGE_ _OF OPHI__r._] The Medes and Persians will not be satisfied with the _spoils_ of the Babylonians. They seek either to destro...
I WILL MAKE A MAN ... - I will so cut off and destroy the men of Babylon, that a single man to defend the city will be more rare and valuable than fine gold. The expression indicates that there would...
2. THE JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS AND THE FUTURE DAY OF JEHOVAH (13-27) CHAPTER 13 The Burden of Babylon 1. _Jehovah's call to the judgment of Babylon (Isaiah 13:1)_ 2. _The day of Jehovah: When Babylo...
ISAIAH 13:1 TO ISAIAH 14:23. THE UTTER RUIN OF BABYLON AND TRIUMPHAL ODE OVER HER MONARCH'S DEATH. Historical conditions are here presupposed entirely different from those of Isaiah's time. The subjec...
MAN. Hebrew. _adam_. App-14....
_golden wedge_ Render simply GOLD. Both the words for gold are rare and poetic....
Jehovah is again the speaker, as in Isaiah 13:3. The prophet has already in Isaiah 13:9 intimated the purpose of the judgment; here the thought is added that in its execution the existing generation w...
The middle division of the prophecy enlarges on the nature, purpose and effects of this day of Jehovah....
BEHOLD, THE DAY OF THE LORD COMETH, &C.— The prophet begins here to describe the calamity itself coming upon the Babylonians, but in figures, according to his manner, grand, and adapted to raise a ter...
b. PURPOSE OF JUDGMENT TEXT: Isaiah 13:9-16 9 Behold the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it. 10...
I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. I WILL MAKE A MAN MORE PRECIOUS THAN FINE GOLD - I will so cut off Babylon's defenders, that a single man...
13:12 man (b-5) _ Enosh_ . as ver. 7. man (c-12) _ Adam_ , as Genesis 1:26 ....
PRECIOUS] RV 'rare'; the slaughter will be so great that few men will be left (Isaiah 24:6). GOLDEN WEDGE] RV 'pure gold'; the gold of Ophir was most esteemed....
1. BURDEN] The corresponding verb means 'to lift up' (_a_) a load, (_b_) the voice (cp. Isaiah 3:7; Isaiah 42:2; Isaiah 42:11), used of Balaam lifting up his voice in oracular utterance ...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 13 The next major division of the Book of Isaiah is Chapter s 13 to...
I WILL MAKE A MAN MORE PRECIOUS. — Both the words for man (_e_̓_nosh_ and _a̓dam_) express, as in Psalms 8:2, the frailty of man’s nature. The words may point to the utter destruction, in which but fe...
אֹוקִ֥יר אֱנֹ֖ושׁ מִ פָּ֑ז וְ אָדָ֖ם מִ
BOOK 5 PROPHECIES NOT RELATING TO ISAIAH'S TIME In the first thirty-nine Chapter s of the Book of Isaiah-the half which refers to the prophet's own career and the politics contemporary with that - we...
We now commence the second circle of the first division of our book, in which are contained Isaiah's prophecies concerning the nations and the world. The first describes the doom of Babylon. Whereas t...
I will make a (l) man more rare than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. (l) He notes the great slaughter that will be, seeing the enemy will neither for gold or silver spare a man'...
_Precious. Rare, (Worthington) or sought after for destruction, ver. 17._...
I know that I am singular in my views of this sweet portion, which comes in between what went before, and what follows after these verses: at least I have never seen the writings of any Commentator, w...
_MONEY FOR MEN_ ‘I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.’ Isaiah 13:12 What Isaiah really wrote was this: ‘I will make man more rare than fine gol...
12._I will make a man more precious than pure gold. _Here he describes in a particular manner how cruel and savage will be the war that is carried on against Babylon. In like manner believers, instruc...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 AND 14. With chapter 12 one division of the whole book closes. That which commences with chapter 13 continues to the end of chapter 27, which describes th...
I WILL MAKE A MAN MORE PRECIOUS THAN FINE GOLD,.... Which may denote either the scarcity of men in Babylon, through the slaughter made of them; so things that are scarce and rare are said to be precio...
_I will punish the world_ The Babylonish empire, which is called the world, as the Roman empire afterward was, (Luke 2:1,) because it was extended to a great part of the world, and because it was very...
I will make a man more precious than fine gold, humankind becoming rarer on earth than the choicest gold, EVEN A MAN THAN THE GOLDEN WEDGE OF OPHIR, noted for the purity and the rich amounts of the go...
GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE PROPHECIES OF WRATH...
6-18 We have here the terrible desolation of Babylon by the Medes and Persians. Those who in the day of their peace were proud, and haughty, and terrible, are quite dispirited when trouble comes. The...
The city and nation shall be so depopulated, that few men shall be left in it....
Isaiah 13:12 mortal H582 rare H3365 (H8686) gold H6337 man H120 wedge H3800 Ophir H211...
THE APOCALYPTIC DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON (ISAIAH 13:6). The forces having been gathered by Yahweh on the remoteness of the bare mountain, they are to be unleashed in ‘the Day of Yahweh', and it will se...
Isaiah 13:12 I. The text is a promise in the guise of a threat. It is a threat to one nation, but a promise to mankind. The text is speaking of the devastation of war men shall be so scarce that gold...
CONTENTS: Prophecy concerning last days, when punishment will be visited upon the nations, and Israel shall pass through the Great Tribulation. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: Men have their da...
In the thirteen Chapter s which follow, the prophet, like a watchman, raises his voice, and denounces woes against all the surrounding nations, and finally against his own country. Isaiah 13:1. _The b...
_I will make a man more precious than fine gold_ DEARTH OF MEN A JUDGMENT FROM GOD When God caused His scythe to swing through the harvests of Babylon it was not expected that a single ear would be...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 13:1 God’s Judgment and Grace for the World: “We Have a Strong City.” Isaiah stresses God’s complete power over all the nations. God rules history to achieve his goals....
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 13:12 This refers to the thorough destruction of “the arrogant” and “the ruthless” of v. Isaiah 13:11....
EXPOSITION THE BURDEN OF BABYLON. The series of prophecies which commences with this chapter and continues to the close of Isaiah 23:1; is connected together by the word _massa_, burden. It has been a...
Now as we move into chapter 13 and he speaks of the burden of Babylon which Isaiah saw, you remember that we mentioned when we started the prophecy of Isaiah that in many of the prophecies, there was...
Isaiah 13:15; Isaiah 24:6; Isaiah 4:1; Psalms 137:9...
More precious — The city and nation shall be so depopulated....