Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Isaiah 19:4
The Assyrian monarch Sargon may be the cruel lord in the prophet's thoughts; he defeated the Egyptians more than once (720, 711, b.c.).
The Assyrian monarch Sargon may be the cruel lord in the prophet's thoughts; he defeated the Egyptians more than once (720, 711, b.c.).
Verse Isaiah 19:4. _A CRUEL LORD _- "Cruel lords"] Nebuchadnezzar in the first place, and afterwards the whole succession of Persian kings, who in general were hard masters, and grievously oppressed t...
AND THE EGYPTIANS - The Egyptian nation; the entire people, though divided into factions and contending with each other. WILL I GIVE OVER - Margin, ‘Shut up.’ The Hebrew word (סכר _sākar_) usually ha...
CHAPTER 19 The Burden of Egypt 1. _The judgment announced (Isaiah 19:1)_ 2. _Egypt blest with Israel in the last days (Isaiah 19:16) _ Egypt has passed through many judgments. Hundreds of years after...
ISAIAH 19. ORACLE ON EGYPT. This is one of the most difficult Chapter s in the book. It falls into two sections, Isaiah 19:1 and Isaiah 19:18. If Isaiah 19:1 is in the main from Isaiah, it probably re...
CRUEL LORD. Sing, adjective with plural noun. the lord of the nations, as the kings of Assyria called themselves....
R.V. AND I WILL GIVE OVER (lit. "shut up") THE EGYPTIANS INTO THE HAND OF A CRUEL ("hard") LORD (in Hebr. plur. of majesty), &c. The words suggest a foreign ruler and are quite applicable to any Assyr...
The dissolution of the Egyptian nationality by the judicial intervention of Jehovah....
AND THE EGYPTIANS WILL I GIVE OVER, &C.— The _second calamity_ is here described, which is the chief, and the description whereof makes the body of this prophesy. The sum of it is, that Egypt for a lo...
CHAPTER NINETEEN 2. EGYPT TEXT: Isaiah 19:1-15 1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, Jehovah rideth upon a swift cloud, and cometh unto Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall tremble at his presence; and the...
And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts. THE EGYPTIANS WILL I GIVE OVER INTO THE HAND OF A CRUEL...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 19 GOD WILL PUNISH EGYPT V1 God gave this special message to Isaiah...
God does not mention the name of the cruel enemy. TROUBLE ON THE NILE V5 The waters of the river Nile will fail to flow. V6 The channels of the river will get smaller and smaller. V7 The plants tha...
וְ סִכַּרְתִּי֙ אֶת ־מִצְרַ֔יִם בְּ יַ֖ד אֲדֹ
These two Chapter s (19, 20) contain the burden of Egypt. Its doom is first declared (19: 1-15). Jehovah's advent will result in the destruction of idols, in civil war, in failure in counsel, and in t...
_Masters. Twelve kings. Psammitichus, one of them, shall gain the ascendancy._...
Here is the same subject of national distress for the burden of Egypt, as that of Damascus or Moab, though the end differs: foreign wars, and domestic jealousies are predicted: so that every man's han...
4._And I will deliver the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel master. _(28) He now shews what will happen to the Egyptians, after having lost courage and been deprived of understanding. Nothing will be...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23. In Chapter s 19 and 20 Egypt shall be smitten in that day; but Jehovah will heal it. Egypt, Assyria, and Israel shall together be blessed of Je...
AND THE EGYPTIANS WILL I GIVE OVER INTO THE HANDS OF A CRUEL LORD,.... Not of Sennacherib king of Assyria, which way go many interpreters, both Christian and Jewish, as Aben Ezra, Jarchi, and Kimchi;...
And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts. Ver. 4. _And the Egyptians will I give over._] Heb., Shut...
_The Egyptians will I give into the hand of a cruel lord_, &c. This is the second calamity here threatened, and the most essential part of the prophecy; and “it may with great truth and propriety be u...
And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord, the reference being either to one of their own tyrannical rulers or to the Assyrian conquerors; AND A FIERCE KING SHALL RULE OVER THEM...
A THREAT OF DESTRUCTION...
GIVE OVER: Or, shut up...
1-17 God shall come into Egypt with his judgments. He will raise up the causes of their destruction from among themselves. When ungodly men escape danger, they are apt to think themselves secure; but...
A FIERCE KING; either, 1. The king of Assyria or Chaldea; or, 2. Those twelve petty kings, the singular number being put for the plural; or, 3. Psammetichus, who being at first one of those twelve...
Isaiah 19:4 And H853 Egyptians H4714 give H5534 (H8765) hand H3027 cruel H7186 master H113 fierce H5794 king...
‘And the spirit of Egypt will be made void in its midst, and I will destroy its counsel, and they will seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to those who have familiar spirits, and to the wizard...
CONTENTS: Burden of Egypt, looking forward, through desolations, to Kingdom blessing with Israel. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The barbarous usage which the enemies of God have given His people, eve...
Isaiah 19:4. _A cruel lord._ Such was Nebuchadnezzar; and after him, Cambyses, and other Persian kings. One oppression succeeded another, as illustrated in Daniel 11. Isaiah 19:11. _The princes of Zoa...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 19:1 The fifth oracle concerns Egypt. Judah turned to Egypt for deliverance from Assyria. God has the power both to judge and to save Egypt, but Judah would rather trust Egypt th...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 19:4 A HARD MASTER. Egypt suffered under tyrants from various nations in the following centuries. ⇐...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 19:1 THE BURDEN OF EGYPT. It has been doubted whether this prophecy refers to the conquest of Egypt by Piankhi, as related in the monument which he set up at Napata, or to that by E...
Now he turns to Egypt. The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall...
1 Samuel 23:7; Ezekiel 29:19; Isaiah 19:2; Isaiah 20:4; Jeremiah 46:26
A fierce king — Psammetichus, who being at first one of those twelve kings, waged war with the rest, and subdued them, and conquered all the land of Egypt and ruled it with rigour....