The second parable is about the way that the farmer harvests. God has taught him what to do with each of the various crops.
• In a similar way, God teaches his people the best way to carry out their work for him. There are many different kinds of work for God. But God knows about each task.
Verse Isaiah 28:27-23. Four methods of threshing are here mentioned, by different instruments; the _flail_, the _drag_, the _wain_, and the _treading of the cattle_. The _staff_ or _flail_ was used f...
FOR THE FITCHES ARE NOT THRESHED WITH A THRESHING INSTRUMENT - The word used here (חרוּץ _chârûts_) denotes properly that which is pointed or sharp, and is joined with מורג _môrag_ in Isaiah 41:15...
3. THE SIX WOES OF THE PROPHET, JUDGMENT RUINS AND RESTORATION GLORIES TO COME (28-35) CHAPTER 28 The First Woe and the Message of Assurance 1. _Ephraim addressed (Isaiah 28:1)_ 2. _Jerusalem equall...
THE HUSBANDMAN ADAPTS HIS METHODS TO THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF EACH CASE. This parable may perhaps not have been spoken to the same audience as Isaiah 28:7, but there is no valid reason for denying it to I...
THRESHING INSTRUMENT. Only here, and Isaiah 41:15....
A parable derived from husbandry. The motive of its insertion in this place was probably the different treatment meted out to Samaria and to Jerusalem. The precise point of the analogy is somewhat unc...
Threshing is not bruising. Three methods of threshing are alluded to. (_a_) Beating with a rod or flail (cf. Judges 6:11; Ruth 2:17). (_b_) Treading with the feet of cattle (Deuteronomy 25:4;...
_with a threshing_instrument] the sledge (_ḥârûç_). _a cart wheel_ the wheel of a threshing wagon (_-ǎgâlâh_)....
GIVE YE EAR, &C.— We have here the fourth member of this section, in which this severe judgment of God denounced in the preceding verses, is defended by a parable taken from agriculture, wherein the p...
2. STABILITY TEXT: Isaiah 28:14-29 14 Wherefore hear the word of Jehovah, ye scoffers, that rule this people that is in Jerusalem: 15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and...
For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod. THE FITCH...
This chapter must be assigned (Isaiah 28:1) to a date prior to the capture of Samaria by the Assyrians (722 b.c.) and fall of the northern kingdom. 1-6. Samaria's luxury and self-indulgence pave the...
FOR THE FITCHES ARE NOT THRESHED... — Better, _fennel seed,_ as before. The eye of the prophet passes from the beginning to the end of the husbandman’s work. He finds there also the varying methods of...
כִּ֣י לֹ֤א בֶֽ † חָרוּץ֙ י֣וּדַשׁ קֶ֔צַח...
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...
TRUTH THE ONLY REFUGE Isaiah 28:14-29 In the beginning of Hezekiah's reign the Jewish leaders had made an alliance with Assyria, on whom they relied to protect them against any and all foes. But the...
Here begins the third and last circle of the first division of the book. It consists of a series of prophecies concerning the chosen people and the world. In this chapter we have a graphic revelation...
_Saws, or heavy instruments. It would be thus crushed too much. (Calmet)_...
The chapter ends very graciously, in showing the Church, under the similitude of the husbandman, how the Lord takes care of his household. And as Jesus hath sweetly set forth the same blessed truths,...
Chapter 28 sets before us the first elements of these final scenes in the history of this wonderful people. The scourge comes from the north. Ephraim is invaded as by an overflowing torrent, by a temp...
FOR THE FITCHES ARE NOT THRESHED WITH A THRESHING INSTRUMENT,.... A wooden sledge, dray, or cart, drawn on wheels; the bottom of which was stuck with iron teeth, and the top filled with stones, to pre...
For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod. Ver. 27. _F...
“Four methods of thrashing are here mentioned, by different instruments: the _flail_, the _drag_, the _wain_, and the _treading of cattle._ The _staff_, or _flail_, was used for the grain that was too...
THE CHASTISEMENT OF THE LORD OF HOSTS...
For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing-instrument, the threshing-sledge, NEITHER IS A CART-WHEEL, the broad wheel of the threshing-wagon, TURNED ABOUT UPON THE CUMIN, for either one of thes...
23-29 The husbandman applies to his calling with pains and prudence, in all the works of it according to their nature. Thus the Lord, who has given men this wisdom, is wonderful in counsel, and excel...
A THRESHING INSTRUMENT; which then and there was made like a sled shod with iron, which was drawn by men or beasts over the sheafs of corn, to bruise them, and beat the grain out of them. A CART WHEEL...
Isaiah 28:27 cummin H7100 threshed H1758 (H8714) sledge H2742 cartwheel H5699 H212 rolled H5437 (H8714) cummin...
THE PARABLE OF THE FARMER AND HIS CROPS (ISAIAH 28:23). The point behind this parable is that the wise farmer thinks carefully about what he is doing and does not get bogged down in one activity. He l...
CONTENTS: Woe of Ephriam due to drunkenness. Prediction of Assyrian captivity of Ephriam. Ephriam's fate a warning to Judah. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The glorious beauty and the plenty of the lan...
Isaiah 28:1. _The crown of pride._ Sebaste, the ancient Samaria, is situated on a long mount of an oval figure, having first a fruitful valley, and then a circle of hills running round about it. _Maun...
_For his God doth instruct him_ CHASTISING WITH JUDGMENT More literally and with better significance, “And he chastiseth it with judgment; his God doth instruct him. ” This judgment is shown in two...
_The ploughman_ THE PARABLE OF THE PLOUGHMAN AND THE THRESHER 1. The general drift of the parable is obvious. The husbandman does not forever vex and wound the tender bosom of the earth with the kee...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 28:23 God’s dealings with his people, though “strange” (v. Isaiah 28:21), are wise. He can be trusted in everything....
SECTION VII. RENEWED DENUNCIATIONS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH (CH. 28-31.) EXPOSITION ISAIAH 28:1 A WARNING TO SAMARIA. The prophet has now east his eagle glance
Chapter 28. Now the prophet turns to the local present issues. He is now... he's gone off down the road to the end of things. Now he comes back and he begins to speak of the Northern Kingdom, the majo...
2 Kings 13:7; Amos 1:3; Isaiah 27:7; Isaiah 27:8; Isaiah 41:15;...
A threshing instrument — This then was made like a sledge shod with iron, which was drawn by men or beasts, over the sheafs of corn, to bruise them, and tear the grain out of them. A wheel — A lower w...