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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Isaiah 7:19

Valleys — Such as they found fruitful, but made desolate. Rocks — To which possibly the Israelites fled for refuge. Bushes — Which he mentions because flies and bees use frequently to rest there; and to intimate, that no place should escape their fury.

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See also Isaiah 7:19 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 7:19. _HOLES OF THE ROCKS _- "Caverns"] So the _Septuagint,_ _Syriac_, and _Vulgate_, whence _Houbigant_ supposes the true reading to be הנחללים _hannachalolim_. One of my oldest MSS. rea...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND THEY SHALL COME - The idea in this verse is, that they would spread over the land, and lay it waste. The poetic image of flies and bees is kept up; meaning, that the armies would be so numerous as...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 7 The Prophet before King Ahaz 1. _The king in trouble (Isaiah 7:1)_ 2. _Isaiah sent and his message (Isaiah 7:3)_ 3. _A sign offered and refused (Isaiah 7:10)_ 4. The sign: The virgin birth...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DEVASTATION OF JUDAH. Probably an independent prophecy rather than a continuation of Isaiah 7:2; it strikes a very different note. It may belong to the same date, but may quite well be later. Disa...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THORNS. the thorn bushes. BUSHES. the pastures....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Judah, as the theatre of the inevitable duel between Assyria and Egypt for the mastery of Asia, must endure all the horrors of the double invasion....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Further announcements (not addressed to Ahaz, but probably compiled from fragments of several of Isaiah's prophecies) of the Assyrian invasion (18 20) and its consequences (21 25)....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The figure is kept up. _desolate valleys_ rather, PRECIPITOUS RAVINES (lit. "valleys of precipices"). _upon all thorns … bushes_ Render: UPON ALL THE THORN-BUSHES (Isaiah 55:13) AND UPON ALL THE PASTU...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    IN THE DESOLATE VALLEYS, &C.— _In the waste valleys, and in the holes of the rock, and upon all thorny grounds, and upon all the well-watered places._ Schultens....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CALAMITY TEXT: Isaiah 7:17-25 17 Jehovah will bring upon thee, and upon thy people and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah. even the king...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes. THEY ... SHALL REST - image of flies and bees kept...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-16. Isaiah assures Ahaz by a sign that Judah will be delivered from Syria and Israel....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    DESOLATE] RV 'rugged.' BUSHES] RV 'pastures.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE DESOLATE VALLEYS... — The Hebrew adjective has rather the meaning of _precipitous_ or _steeply walled,_ and the noun that of _torrent valley,_ like the Arabic _wady._ The whole verse is a graphic...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וּ בָ֨אוּ וְ נָח֤וּ כֻלָּם֙ בְּ נַחֲלֵ֣י

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

    Immediately following this new call of the prophet, we have the account of his encounter with Ahaz. Rezin of Syria and Pekah of Israel had entered into a confederacy against Judah, and a great fear po...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the clefts of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all (s) bushes. (s) Signifying that no place will be free from t...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    After the Lord had given the unspeakably blessed promise, concerning the coming of Christ, that his people in those degenerate times might have comfort, he proceeds to his solemn threatenings: and mos...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    19._And they shall come. _He follows out the same metaphor; for bees commonly seek nests for themselves in caverns, or valleys and bushes, and such like places; as if he had said that there would not...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THEY SHALL COME,.... The Egyptian and Assyrian armies, when the Lord calls for them in his providence, and his time is come to make use of them as a scourge to his people: AND SHALL REST ALL OF T...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes. Ver. 19. _And they shall come, and shall rest all of...

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

    _In that day_ Known to God, and appointed by him for the execution of these judgments; _the Lord shall hiss for the fly_ The _flies_, rather. Thus he calls these enemies, to signify either their great...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And they shall come and shall rest, all of them, in the desolate valleys, rather, in the valleys of the declivities, AND IN THE HOLES OF THE ROCKS, in the clefts of the mountains, AND UPON ALL THORNS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE SON OF THE VIRGIN PROMISED...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    BUSHES: Or, commendable trees...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    17-25 Let those who will not believe the promises of God, expect to hear the alarms of his threatenings; for who can resist or escape his judgments? The Lord shall sweep all away; and whomsoever he e...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THEY; the flies, and especially the bees. SHALL REST ALL OF THEM; they shall have an easy victory; few or none of them shall be slain in the attempt. THE DESOLATE VALLEYS; either, 1. Such as were and...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 7:19 come H935 (H8804) rest H5117 (H8804) desolate H1327 valleys H5158 clefts H5357 rocks H5553 thorns...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Evil confederacy of Rezin and Jekah. The sign of the Virgin's Son. Prediction of impending invasion of Judah. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Ahaz, Rezin, Pekah, Isaiah, Shear-jashub. CONCLUSION:...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 7:1. _In the days of Ahaz,_ the second or the third year of his reign. Chapter s 5. and 6. are therefore out of place. Isaiah 7:6. _Let us go up against Judah and set a king in the midst of it,...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The Lord shall bring upon thee. .. even the king of Assyria_ THE PROPHECY FULFILLED The calling in of Assur laid the foundation for the overthrow of the kingdom of Judah not less than for that of th...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    A SENTENCE OF DOOM Isaiah 7:17. _The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, &c._ I. GOD IS SOVEREIGN IN THE WHOLE EARTH. He is the great controller of all nations. All governments are but i...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    ISAIAH’S INTERVIEW WITH AHAZ Isaiah 7:3. _Then said the Lord unto Isaiah, &c._ In this interview of Isaiah with Ahaz we have an instance— I. OF GOD’S EFFORTS TO TURN MEN FROM RUINOUS COURSES. God is...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION IV. PROPHECIES CONNECTED WITH THE SYRO-ISRAELITE WAR (Isaiah 7-10:4). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 7:1 THE PROPHECY GIVEN TO AHAZ

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now Uzziah is dead and his grandson Ahaz is reigning. It came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, the king of Judah, that Rezin was the king of Syria, and Pekah was the...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 33:11; Isaiah 2:19; Isaiah 2:21; Jeremiah 16:16; Mica

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