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Isaiah 19:6

The verse reads: And the streams shall stink, the canals of Egypt shall become feeble and dry up, &c. The word for "stink" is an anomalous form in Hebr. That rendered in A.V. "defence" is a rare name for Egypt (Maçôr, cf. Assyr. Muṣur, Arab. Miṣr), found also in ch. Isaiah 37:25; 2 Kings 19:24; Micah 7:12. "Canals" (A.V. "brooks") is literally "Niles" (cf. Isaiah 7:18).

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See also Isaiah 19:6 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 19:6. _SHALL TURN THE RIVERS FAR AWAY _- "Shall become putrid"] האזניחו _heeznichu_. This sense of the word, which Simonis gives in his Lexicon, from the meaning of it in Arabic, suits t...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND THEY SHALL TURN THE RIVERS FAR AWAY - (האזיּחוּ _he'ez__e__nı̂ychû_), probably from זנח _zânach_, “to have an offensive smell; to be rancid, or putrid.” The word in this form occurs nowhere else...

  • 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

    THEY SHALL TURN, &C.. the arms of the river shall stink. BROOKS. canals of _Matzor_: i.e. Egypt. See note on Isaiah 7:18. EMPTIED. shallow....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND THE WATERS SHALL FAIL— These verses should be rendered thus: _And the waters shall fail from the sea,_ [from the _Nile,_ which is frequently, both in Scripture, and in profane writers, termed the...

  • 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 they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither. THEY SHALL TURN THE RIVERS FAR AWAY, [ he'ezniychuw (H2186), from...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    19:6 streams (c-8) Or 'canals.' Egypt (d-10) The Hebrew is _ Matsor_ , applied originally to the fortified part of Egypt in the north-east, 2 Kings 19:24 ....

  • 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

    RV 'And the rivers shall stink; the streams of Egypt shall be minished and dried up.'...

  • 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 הֶאֶזְנִ֣יחוּ נְהָרֹ֔ות דָּלֲל֥וּ וְ חָרְב֖וּ...

  • 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 they shall turn the (f) rivers far away; [and] the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither. (f) For the Nile ran into the sea by seven streams, as though...

  • 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

    6._And the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up. _(31) What he adds about fortifications is to the same purpose with what he had stated immediately before. He alludes to the embankments, wh...

  • 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 THEY SHALL TURN THE RIVERS FAR AWAY,.... The river Nile, called "rivers", the plural for the singular, because of the abundance of water in it; or its seven streams, with other rivulets, derived f...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And they shall turn the rivers far away; [and] the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither. Ver. 6. _And they shall turn the rivers far away._] The Assyrians...

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

    _The waters shall fail from the sea_, &c. The river Nile shall cease to pour its usual quantity of water into the sea, _being wasted and dried up_, as it follows. “Tremellius,” says Lowth, “shows out...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A THREAT OF DESTRUCTION...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And they shall turn the rivers far away, rather, "and the rivers shall produce a stench," being reduced to stagnating pools; AND THE BROOKS OF DEFENSE SHALL BE EMPTIED AND DRIED UP, that is, the canal...

  • 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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THEY SHALL TURN THE RIVERS FAR AWAY; which is to be taken impersonally, as such expressions are very frequently, for, _the rivers_ (those small rivulets by which the waters of Nilus were conveyed and...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 19:6 rivers H5104 foul H2186 (H8689) brooks H2975 defense H4693 emptied H1809 (H8804) up H2717 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And the waters will fall from the sea, and the river will be wasted and will become dry, and the rivers will smell. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up, the reeds and rushes will wit...

  • 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 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 19:5 Egypt’s primary natural resource and economic base was the NILE. ⇐...

  • 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

    2 Kings 19:24; Exodus 2:3; Isaiah 18:2; Isaiah 37:25; Job 8:11...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Rivers — The rivers (those rivulets by which the waters of Nile were distributed into several parts of the land) shall be turned far away, as they must needs be, when the river which fed them was drie...

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