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Verse Isaiah 3:4. _I WILL GIVE CHILDREN TO BE THEIR PRINCES _- "I will
make boys their princes"] This also was fully accomplished in the
succession of weak and wicked princes, from the death of Josiah...
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AND I WILL GIVE CHILDREN - Not children in respect to age so much as
in regard to talent for governing. I will commit the land to the
government of weak and imbecile princes. This would naturally occu...
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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...
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JUDAH TO BE PUNISHED WITH ANARCHY. The date is uncertain. That it was
early in the reign of Ahaz is a dubious inference from Isaiah 3:12.
The pillars of society will be removed, and control will thus...
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CHILDREN. youths, or boys.
BABES. with caprice. Not the same word...
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AND BABES SHALL RULE OVER THEM— _And they shall wantonly lord it
over them._ Schultens. See Ecclesiastes 10:16. This was the state of
things in Judaea, after the carrying away of Jehoiachin to Babylon...
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CHAPTER THREE
3.
THE VENGEANCE UPON DECADENCE Isaiah 3:1 to Isaiah 4:1
a. THE WEALTHY
TEXT: Isaiah 3:1-15
1
For, behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem
and from Judah s...
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And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule
over them.
AND I WILL GIVE CHILDREN - in ability for governing: antithesis to
the "ancient" (see ; ).
(TO BE) THEIR PRINCES, AND...
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3:4 children (g-10) Some take the word as 'childish things,' or
'caprices.'...
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True religion will produce a true society (see Isaiah 2:1-5). But
Isaiah saw that actual affairs in *Jerusalem were the opposite.
• God’s judgement often happens by means of society’s
circumstances....
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 3
DESPAIR IN *JERUSALEM
V1 See what the *Lord (commander of...
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I WILL GIVE CHILDREN TO BE THEIR PRINCES. — Better, _youths._ The
words may point obliquely to Ahaz, who had ascended the throne at the
age of twenty (2 Chronicles 28:1). Manasseh was but twelve when...
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וְ נָתַתִּ֥י נְעָרִ֖ים שָׂרֵיהֶ֑ם וְ
תַעֲלוּלִ֖ים...
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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...
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AN EXHORTATION TO HUMILITY AND REVERENCE
Isaiah 2:12-22; Isaiah 3:1-12
If men will not repent, they must suffer. If they will not voluntarily
put away their idols and sorceries, they will be compelle...
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The prophet now deals with judgment in greater detail, and shows how
it will proceed against the rulers and against the women. The judgment
in the case of the rulers is to be the destruction of true g...
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And I will give (d) children [to be] their princes, and babes shall
rule over them.
(d) Not only in age: but in manners, knowledge and strength....
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_Effeminate. Hebrew, "babes." Septuagint, "scoffers." Aquila, &c.,
"changers," (Calmet) who give way to unnatural excesses, Romans i. 27.
(Haydock) --- Some manifest a prudence beyond their years: but...
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The prophet plainly shows by these verses, that the sin is universal.
All ranks and all orders of the people are involved in the same sin,
and consequently the same punishment. It is a melancholy stat...
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4._And I will appoint children to be their princes _(56) That the
vengeance of God may be more manifest, he now describes how sad and
wretched will be the change, when competent and faithful rulers sh...
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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...
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AND I WILL GIVE CHILDREN [TO BE] THEIR PRINCES,.... Either in age, or
in understanding, who are really so, or act like such; and in either
sense, when this is the case, it is an unhappiness to a natio...
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_And I will give children [to be] their princes, and babes shall rule
over them._
Ver. 4. _And I will give children to be their princes._] _Si non
annis, at animis; _ If not with years but with life,...
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_And I will give children to be their princes_ Either, 1st, Children
in age, whose minority corrupt ministers of state commonly abuse, to
the producing of much evil: or, 2d, In understanding and exper...
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And I will give children to be their princes, weak and inexperienced
young men, AND BABES SHALL RULE OVER THEM, incompetent and wanton
youngsters, exercising power as they please....
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GOD'S THREAT OF PUNISHMENT...
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1-9 God was about to deprive Judah of every stay and support. The
city and the land were to be made desolate, because their words and
works had been rebellious against the Lord; even at his holy temp...
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CHILDREN; either,
1. In age, whose minority corrupt ministers of state commonly abuse to
great mischiefs; or,
2. In understanding, experience, and manners; foolish, froward,
unteachable, &c....
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Isaiah 3:4 give H5414 (H8804) children H5288 princes H8269 babes H8586
rule H4910 (H8799)
children -...
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ALL THAT JERUSALEM/JUDAH DEPEND ON IS TO BE TAKEN AWAY SO THAT SOCIETY
WILL DISINTEGRATE TOWARDS EVEN MORE EVIL (ISAIAH 3:1 A).
Having covered world judgment Isaiah now brings it home to the local
sit...
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CONTENTS: The coming desolations of Jerusalem because of sin and the
judgment of sinners.
CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah.
CONCLUSION: Whatever evil befalls sinners, it is of their own
procuring. Those who...
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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...
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_I will give children to be their princes_
PUERILE GOVERNMENT
Probably an abstract term used for a concrete--puerilities or
childishnesses for childish persons_._
(_J. A. Alexander._)
JUVENILE GOV...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 3:1 The false and sinful glories of men and
women, which are temporary, are replaced by the eternal glory of the
Lord (Isaiah 4:6)....
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 3:2 God judges his people by removing their
good leaders and replacing them with irresponsible BOYS and INFANTS....
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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...
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For, behold, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from
Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole
stay of water, the mighty men, and the man of war, the judge...
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1 Kings 3:7; 2 Chronicles 33:1; 2 Chronicles 34:1; 2 Chronicles 36:11;...