Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Isaiah 2:4
Among] RV 'between.' The nations will submit their disputes to the arbitration of Israel's God. The conviction of the universality of the religion of Israel is here plainly shown.
Among] RV 'between.' The nations will submit their disputes to the arbitration of Israel's God. The conviction of the universality of the religion of Israel is here plainly shown.
Verse Isaiah 2:4. _NEITHER SHALL THEY LEARN WAR ANY MORE._] If wars are necessary, how deep must that _fall_ be that renders them so! But what a reproach to humanity is the _trade of war_! Men are reg...
AND HE SHALL JUDGE - Or he shall exercise the office of a judge, or umpire. This “literally” refers to the God of Jacob Isaiah 2:3, though it is clear that the meaning is, that he will do it by the Me...
CHAPTER 2 Zion's Future Glory and the Day of Jehovah 1. _The glories in the latter days (Isaiah 2:1)_ 2. _Exhortation to walk in the light (Isaiah 2:5)_ 3. _The corruption of the people (Isaiah 2:6)_...
ZION THE WORLD'S RELIGIOUS CENTRE, AND THE REIGN OF UNIVERSAL PEACE. The title in Isaiah 2:1 is a later addition, unrelated to the important oracle Isaiah 2:2. This oracle, with verbal differences, oc...
SWORDS. SPEARS. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Part), for all kinds of weapons; while plowshares and pruning-hooks put by the same Figure, for all implements of peace. The signs are Figu...
B. THE IMPLORING APPEAL - Chapter S 2 - 4 CHAPTER TWO 1. VISION OF THE COMING MESSIANIC AGE THE LORD'S HOUSE ESTABLISHED TEXT: Isaiah 2:1-4 1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning...
And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation...
All nations used to believe that gods lived on mountains. The *Lord’s mountain (Mount Zion) is ‘the greatest of all mountains’. That is, the *Lord is greater than any god. • The ‘day is coming’ refer...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 2 GOD’S IDEAL PLAN FOR ISRAEL V1 A special message about Jud...
HE SHALL JUDGE AMONG THE NATIONS. — For “rebuke” read _decide_ or _arbitrate._ The ideal Divine King is to be all, and more than all, that Solomon had been (1 Kings 10:24). In reliance on His wisdom a...
וְ שָׁפַט֙ בֵּ֣ין הַ גֹּויִ֔ם וְ הֹוכִ֖יחַ
CHAPTER II THE THREE JERUSALEMS 740-735 B.C. Isaiah 2:1; Isaiah 3:1; Isaiah 4:1 AFTER the general introduction, in chapter 1, to the prophecies of Isaiah, there comes another portion of the book, o...
A VISION OF WORLD PEACE Isaiah 2:1-11 This and the four following Chapter s must be classed together as a distinct portion of this book, belonging to the earliest years of Isaiah's ministry. Their d...
Following this broad statement of the case between Jehovah and His people, we have the prophet's great appeal to them. The first part constitutes a vision of the latter days, that condition toward whi...
And (g) he shall judge among the nations, and shall (h) rebuke many people: and they shall (i) beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword aga...
_War. Ezechias enjoyed peace after the defeat of Sennacherib, as the whole world did at the birth of Christ. (Calmet) --- Claudentur belli portæ. (Virgil, \'c6neid i.)_...
The prophet Micah had a similar commission in his day to deliver, and he executed it almost in the same words: see Micah 4:1. There are several very blessed promises delivered by both the Lord's serva...
4._And he shall judge among the nations _He means that the doctrine will be like a king’s scepter, that God may rule among all nations; for, by a figure of speech in which a part is taken for the whol...
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...
AND HE SHALL JUDGE AMONG THE NATIONS,.... Or, "it shall judge"; either the mountain of the Lord's house, as Abarbinel thinks, that is, the church; for in the spiritual reign of Christ, in the latter d...
And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation,...
_He shall judge among the nations_ He shall set up and exercise his authority, in and over all nations, not only giving laws to them, as other rulers do, but doing that which no others can do, convinc...
THE GENTILES CALLED TO THE KINGDOM...
And He shall judge among the nations and shall rebuke many people, stating His decisions, performing the functions of King and Judge in governing the people under His spiritual rule; AND THEY, under t...
PRUNINGHOOKS: Or, scythes...
1-9 The calling of the Gentiles, the spread of the gospel, and that far more extensive preaching of it yet to come, are foretold. Let Christians strengthen one another, and support one another. It is...
HE SHALL JUDGE AMONG THE NATIONS; Christ shall set up and use his authority among and over all nations, not only giving laws to them, as other rulers do, but doing that which no other powers can do, C...
Isaiah 2:4 judge H8199 (H8804) nations H1471 rebuke H3198 (H8689) many H7227 people H5971 beat H3807 ...
Isaiah 2:2 is in fact repeated with minor variations in Micah 4:1. It is quite probable that Micah received the words from the master. Analysis of Isaiah 2:1. a The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz s...
Isaiah 2:4 We are asked how, with such passages written in sunbeams in the Book which we hold to be divine, we can regard with any complacency the acts and character of a warrior. I. The old prophet,...
Isaiah 2:1. _The word that Isaiah the son of Amos saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top...
CONTENTS: The coming glory of Jerusalem and Israel. The humbling of the haughty and the shame of sinners in that day. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: In view of the terribleness of that day whe...
Isaiah 2:1. _The word that Isaiah saw._ In these distressing times, when the Jewish church and state were shaken to the very centre, the Messiah spoke to the prophet, and showed him the new-testament...
_And He shall Judge among the nations. .. neither shall they learn war any more_ CHRIST’S KINGDOM UPON EARTH 1_._ When it is said that He should “judge among the nations,” we must observe that the t...
_And it shall come to pass in the last days_ ISAIAH’S DESCRIPTION OF THE LAST DAYS The description of “the last days”--which in the Hebrew begins, “And it hath come to pass. .. the mountainof Jehova...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 2:1 Within the reassuring context of God’s promises (Isaiah 2:2; Isaiah 4:2), Isaiah identifies the sinful h
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 2:4 NATION SHALL NOT LIFT UP SWORD AGAINST NATION, NEITHER SHALL THEY LEARN WAR ANYMORE. Tiny Judah has been threatened by war for most of its existence. Now Isaiah predicts that...
ISAIAH’S VISION OF THE LAST DAYS Isaiah 2:1. _The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw, &c._ 1. The marvellous power of the ancient prophets in giving embodiment and figure to the Word of God. It was...
THE CESSATION OF WAR Isaiah 2:4. _They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any...
SECTION II. DENUNCIATION OF GOD'S JUDGMENTS UPON HIS PEOPLE (CH. 2-5.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 2:1 TITLE OF THE CHAPTER. It is gener
Now chapter 2 is introduced again. The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem (Isaiah 2:1). And now God takes him off to the future. And it shall come to pass in the las...
1 Samuel 2:10; Acts 17:31; Hosea 2:18; Isaiah 11:3; Isaiah 11:4;...
CHRIST IN ISAIAH Isaiah 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS When Isaiah saw Christ in this chapter he saw Him in His Second Advent glory. Peter, in the Spirit, wrote of how the Prophets foretold the sufferings...
He — Christ shall set up his authority among all nations, not only giving laws to them, but doing what no other can do, convincing their consciences, changing their hearts, and ordering their lives. R...