CHOOSE. See note on Isaiah 1:29. SET THEM. make them rest. Compare Isaiah 14:3. LAND. soil STRANGERS. sojourners, foreign proselytes. Isaiah sees far beyond the Captivity. Hebrew. _gur._ See note on Isaiah 5:17. Thus, the mention of strangers is not confined to latter part of Isaiah as alleged by... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PEOPLE. peoples. THEIR PLACE. their own place. See Isaiah 49:22; Isaiah 60:9; Isaiah 66:20. THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. See note on Isaiah 5:7. POSSESS THEM. For servants and handmaids. This is to be fulfilled at. later day: still future (Isaiah 49:23; Isaiah 60:9; Isaiah 61:5). OPPRESSORS. Compare... [ Continue Reading ]
TAKE UP THIS PROVERB. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 23:7; Numbers 23:24; Numbers 24:3; Numbers 24:15; Numbers 24:20; Numbers 24:21; Numbers 24:23). Elsewhere only in Micah 2:4.Habakkuk 2:6, and... [ Continue Reading ]
WICKED. lawless ones (plural) Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
CONTINUAL. unremitting. RULED THE NATIONS. trod down nations. IS PERSECUTED, AND NONE HINDERETH. with an unsparing persecution.... [ Continue Reading ]
BREAK FORTH INTO SINGING. This word (Hebrew. _pazah)_ occurs once in the "former" portion (here), and five times in the "latter" portion (Isaiah 44:23; Isaiah 49:13; Isaiah 52:9; Isaiah 54:1; Isaiah 55:12). See App-92.... [ Continue Reading ]
FIR TREES. Compare Isaiah 37:24; Isaiah 41:19; Isaiah 55:13; Isaiah 60:13. THE CEDARS OF LEBANON, BAYING, &C. It refers to Nebuchadnezzar's and Esar-haddon's cutting down, as recorded in their _Inscriptions,_ p. 58 (published by Oppert, Paris, 1865). They tell how they "brought the greatest trees f... [ Continue Reading ]
HELL. the grave. Hebrew Sheol. App-85. DEAD _= Rephaim._ See App-23 and App-25. Compare Isaiah 26:14; Isaiah 26:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
SPEAK. SAY. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia_, by which the dead are represented as speaking.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE GRAVE. Hebrew Sheol. App-35. Same word as "hell", Isaiah 14:9 and Isaiah 14:15. WORM. This shows the meaning to be given to Hebrew "Sheol" in verses: Isaiah 14:9; Isaiah 14:15. as worms are _material,_ not _spirit._ Compare Isaiah 66:24.Mark 9:44; Mark 9:46; Mark 9:48. COVER THEE. are thy [ Continue Reading ]
LUCIFER. Morning-star. Worshipped by the Assyrians as male at sunrise, female at sunset.. name of Satan. WEAKEN. subdue.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR. And. HAST SAID. saidst. ASCEND. mount up. HEAVEN. the heavens. MOUNT OF THE CONGREGATION. Not Zion, but the Divine assembly of judgment. Compare Psalms 75:2; Psalms 82:1.Ezekiel 28:12. SIDES. recesses. Same word as in Isaiah 14:16; Isaiah 37:24, and 1 Samuel 24:3.Ezekiel 32:23. THE NORTH.... [ Continue Reading ]
OF. that is to say. Genitive of Apposition. App-17. THE MOST HIGH. Hebrew. _Elyon._ App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
IS THIS THE MAN. ? Figure of speech _Dialogismos_. TREMBLE. quake, forming the Figure of speech _Paronomasia_, with "shake. ... [ Continue Reading ]
WORLD. the habitable world. Hebrew. _tebel._ OPENED NOT THE HOUSE OF. loosed not.... [ Continue Reading ]
LIE. sleep. Hebrew. _shakab._ So rendered twelve times in O.T. GLORY. state or honour. HOUSE. burial-house, or mausoleum. 1 Kings 2:10 1 Kings 2:34. 1 Samuel 25:1; 1 Samuel 28:3 Ecclesiastes 12:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
CAST OUT. flung out: out, or far away. GRAVE. sepulchre. Heb _keber._ See App-35. ABOMINABLE BRANCH. a detested or despised scion. THAT GO DOWN, &C. As those that go down... as, &c. TO. One school of Massorites reads "upon", another reads "up to". STONES. Cast upon those who were buried. No wor... [ Continue Reading ]
SLAUGHTER. a slaughter-house, or, instruments of slaughter. Hebrew. _matbeah._ Occurs only here. CHILDREN. sons. FOR THE INIQUITY OF THEIR FATHERS. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 20:5). App-92. FACE. surface. CITIES. The triumph-song which began in Isaiah 14:4 ends here.... [ Continue Reading ]
NAME AND REMNANT. Note the Figure of speech _Homoeopropheron_ in this sentence and the next: "renown and remnant, scion and seed". AND. Some codices, with two early printed editions, omit this "and". SON, AND NEPHEW. scion and seed, or, son and son's son.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS. according as. THOUGHT. intended.... [ Continue Reading ]
BREAK. YOKE. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 27:40). THE ASSYRIAN. Another name for the Antichrist, See note on Daniel 7:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
PURPOSE. HAND. Note the Alternation of these two words in Isaiah 14:26 and Isaiah 14:27. STRETCHED OUT: i.e. in judgment.... [ Continue Reading ]
KING AHAZ DIED. Compare Isaiah 6:1. BURDEN. rod: i.e. Babylon.... [ Continue Reading ]
REJOICE NOT THOU: i.e. at the death of Ahaz, and because the Davidic dominion was broken by the Syro- Ephraimitic war. PALESTINA. Philistia. HIM. the Davidic power. FOR OUT OF THE SERPENT'S ROOT, &C. That was how Philistia regarded Judah and Ahaz. COCKTRICE. viper (see note on Isaiah 11:8), whic... [ Continue Reading ]
FIRSTBORN OF THE POOR. the poorest of the poor. Hebrew idiom. Hebrew. _dal_, impoverished, reduced. See Isaiah 11:4. This looks forward to the fulfilment by Messiah (Isaiah 14:32).... [ Continue Reading ]
GATE. CITY. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject), for the people in them. NONE SHALL BE ALONE. there shall be no stragglers. IN. at.... [ Continue Reading ]
ONE THEN ANSWER. what report shall the messengers or ambassadors of the nations take back? THE NATION. a nation. THAT, &C. This is the report. THE POOR. oppressed ones. Hebrew. _'ani._ TRUST IN IT. flee for refuge to it. Hebrew. _hasah._... [ Continue Reading ]