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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Isaiah 11:16

As it was — As there was another high — way from Egypt. All impediments shall be removed, and a way made for the return of God's Israel from all parts of the world. He mentions Assyria, because thither the ten tribes were carried, whose case seemed to be most desperate.

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See also Isaiah 11:16 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND THERE SHALL BE AN HIGHWAY - All obstructions shall be removed, and they shall be permitted to return without hinderance (compare the note at Isaiah 35:8). FOR THE REMNANT OF HIS PEOPLE FROM ASSYR...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 11 The Coming King and His Kingdom 1. _The King: Who He is and what He will do (Isaiah 11:1)_ 2. _The peace and blessing He brings (Isaiah 11:6)_ 3. The gathering of scattered Israel (Isaiah...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE RETURN OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH FROM THE DISPERSION, AND VICTORIOUS ALLIANCE AGAINST THEIR ANCIENT FOES. This is probably post-exilic. The ideas are characteristic of that period Israel's spiritual pri...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HIGHWAY. See note on Isaiah 7:3. LIKE AS IT WAS. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 14:22). App-92. IN THE DAY. when. See note on Genesis 2:17, and App-18....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _a highway_ through river and desert. This miraculous "highway" is a frequent feature in prophetic descriptions of the return from exile. Cf. ch. Isaiah 35:8; Isaiah 40:3-4; Isaiah 42:16;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    11:(10) Isaiah 11:11-16. A Prophecy of the Return from Exile...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A miraculous passage prepared for the return of the exiles. The allusions to the Exodus are palpable and extend to the next chapter....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND THE LORD SHALL UTTERLY DESTROY— This is the last part of this illustrious prophesy, in which the prophet declares, that about that time in which God should establish the kingdom of his Son in the...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    DRAMATIC DELIVERANCE TEXT: Isaiah 11:10-16 10 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the root of Jesse, that standeth for an ensign of the peoples, unto him shall the nations seek; and his res...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt. THERE SHALL BE AN HIGH...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1. ROD OUT OF THE STEM] RV 'shoot out of the stock,' implying that the tree has been cut down. The Assyrians have been compared in the vv. preceding to cedars, which when felled throw out no fresh suc...

  • 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 11 THE KING WHO IS COMING V1 Like a branch that grows from a *stump...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    As still another example of his power, the *Lord makes his people’s return easier by his control of nature. STUMP ~ short lower piece of a tree that remains in the ground after the rest of the tree ha...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND THERE SHALL BE AN HIGHWAY FOR THE REMNANT... — The “highway” is, as in Isaiah 19:23; Isaiah 49:11, and elsewhere, the raised embanked road, made by Eastern kings for the march of their armies. Suc...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הָיְתָ֣ה מְסִלָּ֔ה לִ שְׁאָ֣ר עַמֹּ֔ו אֲשׁ

  • 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

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

    In this section the prophet's eyes are lifted toward the light of a far-off day. With judgment imminent, he yet sees the ultimate issue of it all. There is fist a description of a Coming One Isaiah 11...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Assyrians. They shall march without impediment. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    How blessed is the account here given of the Gentile church. To this same root of Jesse, meaning Christ, shall the Gentiles seek. And that we might not lose sight of our elder brethren, the Jews, the...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS PRECIOUS Jesus! was the prophet commissioned to bring the Church acquainted with thy nature, according to the flesh? Didst thou indeed come forth as rod out of the stem of Jesse, and as br...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    16._And there shall be a path. _(192) This verse contains nothing new, but explains the former verse. The people would perceive the same power of God in the deliverance from Babylon as they had percei...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9:8-21, 10, 11, AND 12. In Isaiah 9:8 the Spirit, having given the great leading facts as to Messiah, Immanuel, resumes the general history of Israel without...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THERE SHALL BE A HIGHWAY FOR THE REMNANT OF HIS PEOPLE,.... That is, through the river; that being dried up, and all hindrances and obstacles being removed, the way will be clear for multitudes to...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt. Ver. 16. _And there shall...

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

    _And the Lord shall utterly destroy_ Shall not only divide it, as of old, but shall quite dry it up, that it may be a highway; _the tongue of the Egyptian sea_ The Red sea, which may well be called th...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And there shall be an highway for the remnant of His people, cast up or purposely built for the believers in the Lord's Church, WHICH SHALL BE LEFT, FROM ASSYRIA, permitting the captives to return to...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Spread of the Messiah's Kingdom...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    10-16 When the gospel should be publicly preached, the Gentiles would seek Christ Jesus as their Lord and Saviour, and find rest of soul. When God's time is come for the deliverance of his people, mo...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    FROM ASSYRIA; as there was another highway from Egypt in the former verse. So the sense is, that all impediments shall be removed, and a way made for the return of God's Israel from all parts of the w...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 11:16 highway H4546 remnant H7605 people H5971 Who H834 left H7604 (H8735) Assyria H804 Israel H3478 day...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH (ISAIAH 11:11). And now, as after Isaiah 2:5; Isaiah 9:7, we are suddenly brought abruptly down to earth again. The glory of the coming eternal kingdom has been rev...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Prophecy of the Davidic Kingdom and restoration of Israel. CHARACTERS: Christ, Holy Spirit. CONCLUSION: The great comfort in days of distress is the hope of the coming universal kingdom of...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 11:1. _A rod out of the stem of Jesse._ See the note on Isaiah 4:2. David's house had been cut down by Jehu, and latterly by the invasion against Ahaz: chap. 7. Now a branch shall arise out of...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse_ A PROPHECY CONCERNING MESSIAH THE PRINCE I. HIS RISE OUT OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID (Isaiah 11:1). II. HIS QUALIFICATIONS FOR HIS GREAT UNDERT...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 11:16 ASSYRIA. Where many Israelites have gone into exile (see v. Isaiah 11:11)....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    ISAIAH’S VISION OF THE KING AND OF HIS KINGDOM Chapter S 11 AND 12 This is one of the visions that Isaiah _saw_ (chap. Isaiah 1:1, Isaiah 2:1, &c.). He was a dreamer of dreams. With a keen perception,...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 11:1 A RENEWED PROPHECY OF MESSIAH AND OF HIS KINGDOM. This chapter is closely connected with the preceding. With the final destruction of Assyria, which, being cut down, sends out...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn to Isaiah, chapter 11, for the beginning of our study this evening. In the tenth chapter, the closing part of chapter 10 of Isaiah, and again, let me remind you that the chapter distinct...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Exodus 14:26; Isaiah 11:11; Isaiah 19:23; Isaiah 27:13; Isaiah 35:8

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