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Verse Isaiah 20:2. _WALKING NAKED AND BAREFOOT._] It is not probable
that the prophet walked uncovered and barefoot for three years; his
appearing in that manner was a sign that within three years th...
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BY ISAIAH - Margin, ‘By the hand of Isaiah.’ So the Hebrew. That
is, by the instrumentality of Isaiah. He sent him to make known the
fate of the Egyptians, and the folly of trusting in them on this
oc...
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CHAPTER 20
The Near-Punishment of Egypt by Assyria
1. _Isaiah walks naked and barefooted (Isaiah 20:1)_ 2. _The meaning
of his action (Isaiah 20:3)_ 3. _Egypt punished by Assyria (Isaiah
20:4) _ A st...
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ISAIAH 20. THE SIGN OF EGYPT'S OVERTHROW. The year in which the
Assyrian Tartan, or commander-in-chief, came to Ashdod was 711. This
city had been in negotiation with Egypt against Assyria, and so too...
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THE SAME. that.
BY. by the hand of.
ISAIAH. See note on Isaiah 13:1.
NAKED. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Whole), for being
scantily clad....
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This verse is an explanatory parenthesis. The command here mentioned
must have been given three years before the oracle of Isaiah 20:3 ff.;
hence the expression "at that time" must be understood in a...
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A narrative introduction....
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SPAKE THE LORD BY ISAIAH, &C.— Or, _To Isaiah,_ &c. By _sackcloth_
is meant the hairy garment usually worn by prophets. By _naked_ is
meant, no more than that the prophet went without his upper garmen...
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CHAPTER TWENTY
4.
EGYPT AND ETHIOPIA
TEXT: Isaiah 20:1-6
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In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, when Sargon the king of
Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it;
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at that...
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EGYPT'S CAPTIVITY SYMBOLISED
This chapter is assigned in the title to the time when Sargon besieged
Ashdod (711 b.c.). The Philistine city was at that time the centre of
revolt. Sargon interposed and...
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SACKCLOTH] such as prophets sometimes wore (2 Kings 1:8; Zechariah
13:4). NAKED, etc.] i.e. in the guise of a captive. Not only by word,
but by action calculated to arrest attention, Isaiah strove to...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 20
ISAIAH HIMSELF WILL BE A SIGN TO EGYPT AND CUSH
V1 Sargon, *empe...
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Instead of words, God sometimes told his servants to use actions (see
Jeremiah chapter 13). This is the only occasion when Isaiah used
actions to give God’s message....
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בָּ † עֵ֣ת הַ הִ֗יא דִּבֶּ֣ר יְהוָה֮...
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CHAPTER XI
DRIFTING TO EGYPT
720-705 13. B.C.
Isaiah 20:1; Isaiah 21:1; Isaiah 38:1; Isaiah 39:1
FROM 720, when chapter 11 m
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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...
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CHAPTER XVII
ISAIAH TO THE FOREIGN NATIONS
736-702 B.C.
Isaiah 14:24; Isaiah 15:1; Isaiah 16:1; Isaiah 17:1;...
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Yet the prophet sees hope even for Egypt. He describes the process.
The result of the judgment will be fear, and in the case of a part of
Egypt at least this will issue in submission to Jehovah. Where...
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At the same time spoke the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go
and loose the (d) sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe
from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
(d...
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_Sackcloth. The prophets lived in poverty, Zacharias xiii. 4. Their
persons were prophetic. It is not agreed whether Isaias went quite
naked, or only without his upper garment. The former supposition...
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It is probable that this event of Tartar's taking Ashdod, formed an
epoch in history, so remarkable, that the year needed not to be
recorded. And no doubt that the prophet's going about bare-foot, and...
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2._Go and loose the sackcloth from thy loins. _In order to confirm
this prophecy by the use of a symbol, the Lord commanded Isaiah to
walk naked. If Isaiah had done this of his own accord, he would ha...
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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...
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AT THE SAME TIME SPAKE THE LORD BY ISAIAH THE SON OF AMOZ,.... Or, "by
the hand of Isaiah", by his means; and it was to him likewise, as the
following words show; and so the Septuagint version renders...
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At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go
and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from
thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
Ver. 2...
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_Go loose the sackcloth from off thy loins_ By the sackcloth is meant
either the hairy garment usually worn by the prophets, or a mournful
habit, such as was commonly made of sackcloth which he wore i...
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at the same time spake the Lord by Isaiah, the son of Amoz, in the
year when the siege of Ashdod began, SAYING, GO AND LOOSE THE
SACKCLOTH, the loose outer garment of coarse cloth which Isaiah wore,
F...
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THE SYMBOL OF EGYPT'S AND ETHIOPIA'S FALL....
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BY ISAIAH:
_ Heb._ by the hand of Isaiah...
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LOOSE THE SACKCLOTH; ungird it and put it off; the antecedent put for
the consequent, which is very usual, as hath been often noted. God
would sometimes have his prophets to add to their word a visibl...
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Isaiah 20:2 time H6256 LORD H3068 spoke H1696 (H8765) by H3027 Isaiah
H3470 son H1121 Amoz H531 saying...
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‘In the year that the Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of
Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it, at that
time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go and lo...
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CHAPTER 20 THE CAPTIVITY OF EGYPT AND CUSH.
In around 713 BC, continually encouraged by Egypt under her Cushite
rulers, the cities of Philistia rebelled against Assyria and sought to
embroil Judah, Ed...
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CONTENTS: Prophecy of the wasting of Egypt and Ethiopia by Assyria.
CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah, Tartan, Sargon.
CONCLUSION: Those who make the creature their expectation and glory
and so put it in the...
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Isaiah 20:1. _Tartan_ is mentioned as the general-in-chief to
Sennacherib, when he summoned Jerusalem. 2 Kings 18:17. _Sargon_ is
supposed to be one of Sennacherib's names; for kings assumed new names...
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_Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins_
ISAIAH STRIPPED AND BAREFOOTED
Owing to the great importance which is attributed to clothing from the
standpoint of Oriental culture and manners, anyo...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 20:2 NAKED AND BAREFOOT. Like a prisoner of
war (see 2 Chronicles 28:14). The prophets at times acted out their
messages with dramatic behavi
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EXPOSITION
ISAIAH 20:1
A PROPHECY AGAINST EGYPT AND ETHIOPIA. The Assyrian inscriptions
enable us to date this prophecy with a near approach to exactness.
Ashdod was besieged by an Assyrian army twic...
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Now in chapter 20, Isaiah predicts that Assyria is going to waste both
Egypt and Ethiopia.
In the year that Tartan (Isaiah 20:1)
Which is the title which means the commander in chief. Tartan, the
co...
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1 Samuel 19:24; 2 Kings 1:8; 2 Samuel 6:20; Acts 19:16; Exodus 3:5;...
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Sackcloth — Which he wore in token of his grief for the calamities
that were already come upon Israel, and were coming upon Judah. Naked
— Not wholly naked, but without his upper garment, as slaves an...