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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

Isaiah 28:8

For all tables ... - The tables at which they sit long in the use of wine (see the note at Isaiah 5:11). There was no place in their houses which was free from the disgusting and loathsome pollution produced by the use of wine.

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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 1 Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fa...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    At a time of great danger, the nation needed wise leaders. But the leaders’ love of wine has made them completely foolish....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֚י כָּל ־שֻׁלְחָנֹ֔ות מָלְא֖וּ קִ֣יא צֹאָ֑ה...

  • 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

    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...

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

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Place. All was defiled: they gloried in their shame._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    8._For all tables are full of vomiting. _He pursues the same metaphor, and draws, as it were, a picture of what usually happens to men who are given up to drunkenness; for they forget shame, and not o...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR ALL TABLES ARE FULL OF VOMIT [AND] FILTHINESS,.... The one signifies what is spued out of a man's mouth, his stomach being overcharged, and the other his excrements; and both give a just, though n...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that there is] no place [clean]. Ver. 8. _For all places are full of vomit and filthiness._] _Vah, vah, vah: cum tu Narbone mensas hospitam conv...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, the result of their beastly drunkenness, SO THAT THERE IS NO PLACE CLEAN. The prophet paints the picture of their besottedness before the eyes of these...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    ALL TABLES; at which the priests, and prophets, and other Jews did eat and drink. They hardly made one sober meal; drunkenness was their daily practice. NO PLACE; no table, or no part of the table; no...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 28:8 tables H7979 full H4390 (H8804) vomit H6892 filth H6675 place H4725 Proverbs 2

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    BACK TO THE PRESENT. THE CONDITION OF JUDAH (ISAIAH 28:7). Many view this movement back to the present as commencing a reference to Judah (see Isaiah 28:14), as against Israel in Isaiah 28:1, which wo...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _But they also have erred through wine_ “SWALLOWED UP OF WINE” This is how all debasement continues, aggravates itself, and brings itself to shameful issue. No man begins at the point of being swall...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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.

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Habakkuk 2:15; Habakkuk 2:16; Jeremiah 48:26; Proverbs 26:11...

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