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Verse Isaiah 28:10. _FOR PRECEPT_ MUST BE _UPON PRECEPT_] The original
is remarkably abrupt and sententious. The hemistichs are these: -
לצו צו לצו צו כי
_latsav tsav latsav tsav ki_...
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FOR PRECEPT MUST BE UPON PRECEPT - This is probably designed to
ridicule the concise and sententious manner of the prophets, and
especially the fact that they dwelt much upon the same elementary
truth...
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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...
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JERUSALEM ALSO IS THREATENED WITH DESTRUCTION. But Jerusalem like
Ephraim reels with intoxication, the priests and prophets especially.
The prophet is not steady in his vision, the priest when pronoun...
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FOR. For [say they] mimicking the prophet as though he were teaching
little children in. school.
MUST BE: or, [hath been]. The verse then reads: "For it is _zav lazav,
zav lazav kav lakav, kav lakav...
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The occasion of this remarkable encounter was probably a feast held to
celebrate the renunciation of allegiance to Assyria. Isaiah has
surprised the drunkards over their cups and administered some suc...
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The topers proceed to mock, in stammering drunken tones, the excited
utterance and the wearisome iterations of the prophet's teaching.
Translate with R.V. (marg.) FOR IT IS PRECEPT UPON PRECEPT … RULE...
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WHOM SHALL HE TEACH KNOWLEDGE?— This period, though different in
words, is the same in sense with that preceding. The meaning is, that
the teachers, priests, and elders of the people, whose duty it wa...
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V. EMANCIPATION NOT FROM EGYPT
Chapter S 28 - 35
A. FOUNDATION THAT IS FIRM, Chapter S 28-29
1. STUPIDITY
TEXT: Isaiah 28:1-13
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Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the
fa...
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In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for
a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,
-The prophet now turns to Judah, a gracious promise to the remnant
("residue...
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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...
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The people's mockery continued. _Must be_] RV 'is.' PRECEPT.. LINE]
The words in Heb. are monosyllables, such as would be used in teaching
little children....
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Even the plain words that Isaiah used to warn the leaders sounded like
nonsense to them. They complain that his words are just strange
sounds....
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 28
The next section of the Book of Isaiah is from Chapter 28 to Chapter
33. These Cha...
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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...
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THE DECAY OF AN INTEMPERATE PEOPLE
Isaiah 28:1-13
A new series of prophecies begins here and extends to Isaiah 32:20.
Samaria is described as a faded crown or garland on the nation's head
because it...
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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...
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For (i) precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept; line
upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little:
(i) They must have one thing often repeated....
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Command, &c. This is said in the person of the Jews, resisting the
repeated commands of God, and still putting him off. (Challoner) ---
They deride the prophets, speaking words of no meaning, as if th...
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Here is another solemn charge, and more pointed than the former.
Errors are not only found in Ephraim, but in Judah; not only among the
carnal, but the professor. Yea, God's ministers, both prophet an...
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10._For precept must be on precept. _This shews plainly that the Lord
complains of spending his labor to no purpose in instructing this
unteachable people, just as if one were to teach children, who m...
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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...
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FOR PRECEPT [MUST BE] UPON PRECEPT, PRECEPT UPON PRECEPT,....
Signifying, that they must be dealt with as children were, when first
instructed in the rudiments of a language, first had one rule given...
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For precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon
line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little:
Ver. 10. _For precept must be upon precept._] Children are of weak
under...
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_Whom shall he_ Namely, God, or his prophet, or minister; _teach
knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine?_ Who is
there among this people, that are capable and willing to be taught th...
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CONCERNING SAMARIA AND JERUSALEM.
Chapter s 28 to 33 in the Book of Isaiah contain a cycle of prophecies
and proclamations concerning the relation of Judah to Assyria in the
time of King Hezekiah. Aha...
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For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon
line, line upon line, that is, rule upon rule; HERE A LITTLE AND THERE
A LITTLE, the gist of their attempted reproach being that the p...
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MUST BE:
Or, hath been...
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5-15 The prophet next turns to Judah, whom he calls the residue of
his people. Happy are those alone, who glory in the Lord of hosts
himself. Hence his people get wisdom and strength for every servic...
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PRECEPT MUST BE UPON PRECEPT; they must be taught, like little
children, slowly, and by leisure; the same things being oft repeated,
because of their great dulness. LINE UPON LINE; one line of the boo...
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HIS OPPONENT MOCK ISAIAH'S TEACHING (ISAIAH 28:9).
Isaiah's opponents mock him because all that he does is proclaim a
repetitive message. In their view that is to treat them like children.
But his rep...
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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...
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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...
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_For precept mast be upon precept. .. line upon line_
A DRUNKEN JIBE
The passage is commonly used in a sense the very opposite to that in
which it was originally employed.
It is commonly taken as a...
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_Whom shall He teach knowledge?_
THE SCOFFING DRUNKARDS
They scoff at the prophet, that intolerable moralist. They are
full-grown and free; he need not teach them knowledge Isaiah 11:9),
and explain...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 28:1 God’s Sovereign Word Spoken into the
World: “Ah!” God controls history (chs. Isaiah 28:1), moving
events toward final judgment and salvation (chs.
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 28:9 The priests and prophets dismiss
Isaiah’s message as too simplistic (compare 1 Corinthians 2:14)....
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EARLY RELIGIOUS TRAINING
(_Sunday School Anniversary Sermon_.)
Isaiah 28:9. _Whom shall He teach knowledge?_ &c.
Whether we regard these verses as the language of the drunkards of
Ephraim, deriding t...
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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
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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...
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2 Chronicles 36:15; 2 Chronicles 36:16; 2 Timothy 3:7; Deuteronomy
6:1;...
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For — They must be taught like little children, because of their
great dullness. Line — One line of the book after another, as
children are taught to read....