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Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 3:24

sweet smell. perfume.

stink. rottenness, or stench.

rent. a rope,

well set hair. richly plaited hair.

stomacher. sash or girdle, often worked in silk and gold. Still worn in Palestine.

girding of sackcloth. girding with. rope.

burning. branding.

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See also Isaiah 3:24 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 3:24. _INSTEAD OF SWEET SMELL_ - "perfume."] A principal part of the delicacy of the Asiatic ladies consists in the use of baths, and of the richest oils and perfumes; an attention to wh...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS - The prophet proceeds to denounce the “judgment” or “punishment” that would come upon them for their pride and vanity. In the calamities that would befall the nation, all th...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 3 Judgments upon the Rulers and the Daughters Of Zion 1. _The judgment against the rulers (Isaiah 3:1)_ 2. _Jerusalem's sad condition (Isaiah 3:8)_ 3. _Jehovah's message (Isaiah 3:10)_ 4. The...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH 3:16 TO ISAIAH 4:1. THE LUXURIOUS LADIES OF JERUSALEM AND THEIR DOOM. As Amos attacked the women of Samaria for their luxury, made possible through the oppression of the poor (Amos 4:1), so Isa...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    IN THAT DAY THE LORD WILL TAKE AWAY, &C.— In that day will the Lord take from them the ornaments, of the feet-rings, and the net-works, and the crescents; the pendents, and the bracelets, and the thin...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    b. THE WOMEN TEXT: Isaiah 3:16 to Isaiah 4:1 16 Moreover Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, a...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth;...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    INSTEAD OF, etc.] RV 'instead of sweet spices there shall be rottenness.' RENT] RV 'rope,' i.e. binding the captive. BURNING] RV 'branding.' i.e. of a slave....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    At that time, enemies will attack and destroy *Jerusalem. God’s judgement will show itself in all that the people suffer. • ‘Women’ is more accurately ‘daughters’ and so probably means all the inhabi...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS. — Now comes the terrible contrast of the day of destruction that is coming on all this refined luxury. Instead of the balmy perfume of the scent-bottles, there shall be the...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הָיָה֩ תַ֨חַת בֹּ֜שֶׂם מַ֣ק יִֽהְיֶ֗ה וְ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Stench. The Jews are noted on this account, as if in consequence of this curse, or of their being confined to prisons, &c. F\'9ctentium Judæorum et tumultuantium sæpe tædio percitus. --- M. Aurelius...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    What a sad portrait is here drawn by the prophet, of the daughters of Zion. Alas! how unsuitable to Zion's daughters, who are supposed to be women professing godliness. Reader! is not the present day...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 2, 3, AND 4. Thus re-established, Zion, the mountain of Jehovah, will be the centre of blessing and peace to all the nations (Isaiah 2:1-4). This puts the inv...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, [THAT] INSTEAD OF SWEET SMELL THERE SHALL BE A STINK,.... Instead of "spice", or in the place where they put spices, carried musk, or had their smelling bottles, of precious...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And it shall come to pass, [that] instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth;...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The embroidered robes, and the tunics, and the cloaks, and the little purses, Isaiah 3:22_. _The transparent garments_ A kind of silken dress, transparent like gauze; worn only by the most delicate w...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And it shall come to pass that instead of sweet smell, the delicate perfume of balsam, there shall be stink AND INSTEAD OF A GIRDLE A RENT, nothing but a rope to hold the garments together, AND INSTEA...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE VANITY OF THE WOMEN OF JERUSALEM...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    16-26 The prophet reproves and warns the daughters of Zion of the sufferings coming upon them. Let them know that God notices the folly and vanity of proud women, even of their dress. The punishments...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    INSTEAD OF SWEET SMELL, those perfumes mentioned ISAIAH 3:20, THERE SHALL BE STINK, from their scabs, mentioned ISAIAH 3:17, or from other ill usages of their enemies. INSTEAD OF A GIRDLE, which were...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 3:24 smell H1314 stench H4716 sash H2290 rope H5364 well-set H4639 hair H4748 baldness H7144 robe...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 3:1. _Behold, the Lord doth take away from Jerusalem the whole stay of bread._ This threatening is understood of the Chaldean invasion in the reign of Jechoniah, and after the death of king Jos...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The daughters of Zion are haughty_ WANTON EYES (“twinkling with the eyes”):--Compare the Talmudic witticism, “God did not create the woman out of Adam’s ear, lest she might become an eavesdropper;...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 3:24 INSTEAD OF. Five times Isaiah says that God will replace the women’s self-indulgence (vv. Isaiah 3:16) with the tragedies of exile and abuse....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 3:1 GOD'S JUDGMENT UPON JERUSALEM. The general denunciations against Israel of the two preceding chapters are here turned especially against Jerusalem. God will deprive her of all h...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Girdle — Which were fine and costly, and useful to gird their garments about them. A rent — Torn and tattered garments. Burning — By the heat of the sun, to which they are now commonly exposed, from w...

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