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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 28:14

Ye scornful men, that rule this people... — The last words emphasise the fact that the men who derided the prophet in their worldly wisdom were found among Hezekiah’s chief princes and counsellors, the partizans now of an Assyrian, now of an Egyptian alliance — anything rather than the policy of righteousness and repentance.

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See also Isaiah 28:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WHEREFORE ... - This verse commences a direct address to the scoffing and scornful nation, which is continued to the close of Isaiah 28:22. It is addressed particularly to the rulers in Jerusalem, as...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    3. THE SIX WOES OF THE PROPHET, JUDGMENT RUINS AND RESTORATION GLORIES TO COME (28-35) CHAPTER 28 The First Woe and the Message of Assurance 1. _Ephraim addressed (Isaiah 28:1)_ 2. _Jerusalem equall...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JERUSALEM ALSO IS THREATENED WITH DESTRUCTION. But Jerusalem like Ephraim reels with intoxication, the priests and prophets especially. The prophet is not steady in his vision, the priest when pronoun...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    There is again a _literary_connexion with what precedes; although the passage is probably a summary of an independent discourse. The prophet's aim is to impress on his opponents the disastrous consequ...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _ye scornful men_ Better: SCOFFING MEN. The "scoffer" (_lêç_, a word almost confined to Pss. and Prov.) represents the last degree of ungodliness, open contempt of religion. The phrase here is applied...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    WHEREFORE, HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD, &C.— The prophet, about to describe the temporal and external punishment in these verses, addresses the teachers and elders of the people, and in a strong manner...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. STABILITY TEXT: Isaiah 28:14-29 14 Wherefore hear the word of Jehovah, ye scoffers, that rule this people that is in Jerusalem: 15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. YE SCORNFUL MEN - (note, Isaiah 28:9.)...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    This chapter must be assigned (Isaiah 28:1) to a date prior to the capture of Samaria by the Assyrians (722 b.c.) and fall of the northern kingdom. 1-6. Samaria's luxury and self-indulgence pave the...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 28 The next section of the Book of Isaiah is from Chapter 28 to Chapter 33. These Cha...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The fate of Samaria (Israel) should have warned the leaders of Judah not to make the same mistake. False security is no security. TRUE SECURITY V16 Now listen to what the *Lord God says. ‘See, I am...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לָכֵ֛ן שִׁמְע֥וּ דְבַר ־יְהוָ֖ה אַנְשֵׁ֣י לָצֹ֑ון...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    BOOK 3 PROPHECIES FROM THE ACCESSION OF HEZEKIAH TO THE DEATH OF SARGON 727-705 B.C. THE prophecies with which we have been engaged (Chapter s 2-10:4) fall either before or during the great Assyrian...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    TRUTH THE ONLY REFUGE Isaiah 28:14-29 In the beginning of Hezekiah's reign the Jewish leaders had made an alliance with Assyria, on whom they relied to protect them against any and all foes. But the...

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

    Here begins the third and last circle of the first division of the book. It consists of a series of prophecies concerning the chosen people and the world. In this chapter we have a graphic revelation...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Men, who make a parade of your knowledge, (Haydock) to turn the most sacred things into ridicule._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    These are very awful verses, and enough to make the ears of everyone that heareth them to tingle. And what must the end be of scorners, mockers of God's word, and despisers of his threatenings?...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    14._Wherefore hear ye the word of the Lord. _He goes on to address to them still stronger reproof, and at the same time mingles with it a consolation in order to encourage the hearts of the godly. Whi...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 28 sets before us the first elements of these final scenes in the history of this wonderful people. The scourge comes from the north. Ephraim is invaded as by an overflowing torrent, by a temp...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    WHEREFORE HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD, YE SCORNFUL MEN,.... Men of scorn and mockery, that scoffed and mocked at the word of God, as in the preceding verse Isaiah 28:13; or at the threatenings of punish...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which [is] in Jerusalem. Ver. 14. _Wherefore hear the word of the Lord._] Stand forth and hear your doom, ye that jeer when...

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

    _Wherefore hear, ye scornful men_ Who make a mock at sin, and at God's word and threatenings, and who doubt not that by your crafty counsels, and human efforts, you shall escape God's judgments; who _...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE FALSE QND THE TRUE REFUGE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, those who despised and mocked the prophet's warning, THAT RULE THIS PEOPLE WHICH IS IN JERUSALEM, the capital being named for the entire Southern...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    5-15 The prophet next turns to Judah, whom he calls the residue of his people. Happy are those alone, who glory in the Lord of hosts himself. Hence his people get wisdom and strength for every servic...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    YE SCORNFUL MEN; which make a mock at sin, and at God's words and threatenings; and doubt not by your witty devices, and by your wicked practices, to escape God's judgments, of which we read in the ne...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 28:14 hear H8085 (H8798) word H1697 LORD H3068 scornful H3944 men H582 rule H4910 (H8802) people...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH STERNLY WARNS ABOUT THE THREATENING FUTURE IF THEY WILL NOT LOOK TO GOD'S SURE FOUNDATION (ISAIAH 28:14). The leaders of Judah reply that they are not afraid of his threats because they have go...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Woe of Ephriam due to drunkenness. Prediction of Assyrian captivity of Ephriam. Ephriam's fate a warning to Judah. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The glorious beauty and the plenty of the lan...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 28:1. _The crown of pride._ Sebaste, the ancient Samaria, is situated on a long mount of an oval figure, having first a fruitful valley, and then a circle of hills running round about it. _Maun...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men_ ISAIAH’S RESPONSE The prophet replies that when the storm does sweep over the land, as it assuredly will, these “refuges of lies” will prove no shelter to...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION VII. RENEWED DENUNCIATIONS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH (CH. 28-31.) EXPOSITION ISAIAH 28:1 A WARNING TO SAMARIA. The prophet has now east his eagle glance

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter 28. Now the prophet turns to the local present issues. He is now... he's gone off down the road to the end of things. Now he comes back and he begins to speak of the Northern Kingdom, the majo...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Acts 13:41; Hosea 7:5; Isaiah 1:10; Isaiah 28:22; Isaiah 29:20;...

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