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Verse Isaiah 13:17. _WHICH SHALL NOT REGARD SILVER_ - "Who shall hold
silver of no account"] That is, who shall not be induced, by large
offers of gold and silver for ransom, to spare the lives of th...
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BEHOLD, I WILL STIR UP - I will cause them to engage in this
enterprise. This is an instance of the control which God claims over
the nations, and of his power to excite and direct them as he pleases....
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2. THE JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS AND THE FUTURE DAY OF JEHOVAH (13-27)
CHAPTER 13
The Burden of Babylon
1. _Jehovah's call to the judgment of Babylon (Isaiah 13:1)_ 2. _The
day of Jehovah: When Babylo...
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ISAIAH 13:1 TO ISAIAH 14:23. THE UTTER RUIN OF BABYLON AND TRIUMPHAL
ODE OVER HER MONARCH'S DEATH. Historical conditions are here
presupposed entirely different from those of Isaiah's time. The
subjec...
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The description of the character of the invaders, perhaps even the
mention of their name, is of the nature of a climax to the terrors of
the picture....
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_the Medes_ This Iranian people first became a leading power in Asia
when it divided with the Chaldæans the spoils of the Assyrian Empire
(b.c. 606), but it was not till the rise of the great conquero...
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BEHOLD, I WILL STIR UP THE MEDES— Here follows the second part of
this prophesy; in which, what the prophet had foretold principally in
figure, is here plainly related; and is easily divided, as it co...
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c. PROLONGATION OF JUDGMENT
TEXT: Isaiah 13:17-22
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Behold I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard
silver, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it,
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And their bows sh...
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Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard
silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
BEHOLD, I WILL STIR UP THE MEDES - (; ; .) At that time they were
subjec...
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1. BURDEN] The corresponding verb means 'to lift up' (_a_) a load,
(_b_) the voice (cp. Isaiah 3:7; Isaiah 42:2; Isaiah 42:11), used of
Balaam lifting up his voice in oracular utterance ...
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The invaders of Babylon are here first mentioned by name, though the
prophet has had them in mind from Isaiah 13:2. The MEDES had settled
in the district SW. of the Caspian Sea, and are mentioned in A...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 13
The next major division of the Book of Isaiah is Chapter s 13 to...
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The *Medes came from the country that is today called Iran (Persia).
They joined forces with the army from Persia in the attack that
destroyed Babylon in the year 539 *BC....
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BEHOLD, I WILL STIR UP THE MEDES. — The Hebrew form _Madai_ meets us
in Genesis 10:2, among the descendants of Japheth. Modern researches
show them to have been a mixed people, Aryan conquerors having...
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הִנְנִ֛י מֵעִ֥יר עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם אֶת
־מָדָ֑י אֲשֶׁר...
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BOOK 5
PROPHECIES NOT RELATING TO ISAIAH'S TIME
In the first thirty-nine Chapter s of the Book of Isaiah-the half
which refers to the prophet's own career and the politics contemporary
with that - we...
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We now commence the second circle of the first division of our book,
in which are contained Isaiah's prophecies concerning the nations and
the world. The first describes the doom of Babylon. Whereas t...
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_Medes. Who had set themselves at liberty about twenty years before
this. They were not solicitous about gold, Ezechiel vii. 19., and
Sophonias i. 18._...
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In these verses we have a continuation of the subject concerning the
destruction of Babylon, with the effects to be wrought by it on all
the people. And, what is very observable, so hardened against a...
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17._Behold I raise up against them the Medes. _The Prophet, having
predicted the destruction of the Babylonians, describes also the
authors, or says that God will be the author; and at the same time h...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 AND 14.
With chapter 12 one division of the whole book closes. That which
commences with chapter 13 continues to the end of chapter 27, which
describes th...
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BEHOLD, I WILL STIR UP THE MEDES AGAINST THEM,.... The Babylonians;
this explains who are meant by the sanctified and mighty ones, Isaiah
13:3 the Medes were a people that descended from Medai, one of...
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Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard
silver; and [as for] gold, they shall not delight in it.
Ver. 17. _Behold I will stir up the Medes._] Together with the
Persians...
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_Behold_, &c. Here follows the second part of this prophecy, in which
the calamity which the prophet had foretold, principally in figure, is
plainly related and set forth in its causes and consequence...
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AGAINST BABYLON IN PARTICULAR...
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Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, the Medo-Persians being
the world power which conquered Babylon, WHICH SHALL NOT REGARD
SILVER; AND AS FOR GOLD, THEY SHALL NOT DELIGHT IN IT, that is, i...
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6-18 We have here the terrible desolation of Babylon by the Medes and
Persians. Those who in the day of their peace were proud, and haughty,
and terrible, are quite dispirited when trouble comes. The...
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THE MEDES; under whom he comprehends the Persians, who were their
neighbours and confederates in this expedition. THEY SHALL NOT DELIGHT
IN IT; which is to be understood comparatively. They shall more...
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Isaiah 13:17 up H5782 (H8688) Medes H4074 regard H2803 (H8799) silver
H3701 gold H2091 delight H2654 ...
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A VIVID PICTURE OF BABYLON'S FUTURE AND ITS END (ISAIAH 13:17).
Having depicted the destruction of Babylon in apocalyptic terms Isaiah
brings it down to earth. He partly does it in terms of the Medes....
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CONTENTS: Prophecy concerning last days, when punishment will be
visited upon the nations, and Israel shall pass through the Great
Tribulation.
CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah.
CONCLUSION: Men have their da...
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In the thirteen Chapter s which follow, the prophet, like a watchman,
raises his voice, and denounces woes against all the surrounding
nations, and finally against his own country.
Isaiah 13:1. _The b...
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_Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them_
THE MEDES
The Medes care not for gold, but for blood, though it be the blood of
boys and infants.
(_Sir E. Strachey, Bart._)
THE MEDES AND GOLD
“Ye...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 13:17 THE MEDES conquered Babylon in 539 B.C.
(see Jeremiah 51:11;...
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THE LOVE OF MONEY
Isaiah 13:17. _The Medes … shall not regard silver; and as for gold,
they shall not delight in it_.
I. One of the most universal and powerful of all passions is the love
of money....
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EXPOSITION
THE BURDEN OF BABYLON. The series of prophecies which commences with
this chapter and continues to the close of Isaiah 23:1; is connected
together by the word _massa_, burden. It has been a...
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Now as we move into chapter 13 and he speaks of the burden of Babylon
which Isaiah saw, you remember that we mentioned when we started the
prophecy of Isaiah that in many of the prophecies, there was...
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Daniel 5:28; Isaiah 13:3; Isaiah 21:2; Isaiah 41:25; Jeremiah 50:9;...
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Medes — Under whom he comprehends the Persians. Not delight —
Which is to be understood comparatively. They shall more eagerly
pursue the destruction of the people, than the getting of spoil....