WITH ARROWS AND WITH BOWS ... - This is a continuation of the description of its desolation. So entirely would it be abandoned, so utterly desolate would it be, that it would become a vast hunting-gro...
CHAPTER 7 The Prophet before King Ahaz 1. _The king in trouble (Isaiah 7:1)_ 2. _Isaiah sent and his message (Isaiah 7:3)_ 3. _A sign offered and refused (Isaiah 7:10)_ 4. The sign: The virgin birth...
THE DEVASTATION OF JUDAH. Probably an independent prophecy rather than a continuation of Isaiah 7:2; it strikes a very different note. It may belong to the same date, but may quite well be later. Disa...
The most costly vineyards, requiring the most sedulous cultivation, are overrun by thorns and thistles, cf. ch. Isaiah 5:6....
_With arrows and with bows_ the weapons of the hunter (Genesis 27:3)....
Further announcements (not addressed to Ahaz, but probably compiled from fragments of several of Isaiah's prophecies) of the Assyrian invasion (18 20) and its consequences (21 25)....
CALAMITY TEXT: Isaiah 7:17-25 17 Jehovah will bring upon thee, and upon thy people and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah. even the king...
1-16. Isaiah assures Ahaz by a sign that Judah will be delivered from Syria and Israel....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 7 From now on in the Book of Isaiah, the names Israel and Eph...
Farmers will no longer be able to cultivate what was good land. Men will go there now just to hunt wild animals for food....
WITH ARROWS AND WITH BOWS SHALL MEN COME THITHER... — The words admit of two or three distinct interpretations: (1) the invaders shall march through the desolate vineyards shooting down any whom they...
בַּ † חִצִּ֥ים וּ בַ † קֶּ֖שֶׁת...
CHAPTER V THE WORLD IN ISAIAH'S DAY AND ISRAEL'S GOD 735-730 B.C. UP to this point we have been acquainted with Isaiah as a prophet of general principles, preaching to his countrymen the elements of...
A FOREIGN FOE-GOD'S INSTRUMENT Isaiah 7:18-25; Isaiah 8:1-4 Ahaz, as we have seen, summoned the king of Assyria to his aid. This policy, dictated by human prudence, was fraught with vast peril. He an...
Immediately following this new call of the prophet, we have the account of his encounter with Ahaz. Rezin of Syria and Pekah of Israel had entered into a confederacy against Judah, and a great fear po...
With arrows and with (y) bows shall [men] come there; because all the land shall become briers and thorns. (y) As they who go to seek wild beasts among the bushes....
_Thither. The hedges shall be rooted up (Haydock) or neglected, so that cattle may graze. (Menochius) --- Two sorts of mountains are specified; some for vineyards, and others for pasture. (Calmet)_...
After the Lord had given the unspeakably blessed promise, concerning the coming of Christ, that his people in those degenerate times might have comfort, he proceeds to his solemn threatenings: and mos...
24._With arrows and bow shall they come thither. _The verb יבא, (_yabo_,) _he shall come_, is in the singular number; but it ought to be explained by the plural, that the archers will march through Ju...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9:1-7. But this requires further development; and it is given in a remarkable manner in the next prophecy, comprised in Chapter s 7, 8, 9 to the end...
WITH ARROWS AND WITH BOWS SHALL [MEN] COME THITHER,.... For fear of wild beasts, serpents, and scorpions, as Jarchi; or in order to hunt them, as others; or because of thieves and robbers, as Aben Ezr...
_With arrows and with bows shall [men] come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns._ Ver. 24. _With arrows and with bows shall they come._] For their necessary defence against t...
These verses “contain an elegant and very expressive description of a country depopulated, and left to run wild, from its adjuncts and circumstances; the vineyards and corn-fields, before well cultiva...
With arrows and with bows shall men come thither, to hunt wild beasts in the former orchards, BECAUSE ALL THE LAND SHALL BECOME BRIERS AND THORNS....
THE SON OF THE VIRGIN PROMISED...
17-25 Let those who will not believe the promises of God, expect to hear the alarms of his threatenings; for who can resist or escape his judgments? The Lord shall sweep all away; and whomsoever he e...
WITH ARROWS AND WITH BOWS; either to hunt, or to defend themselves from wild beasts, which commonly abide in such desolate and overgrown grounds....
Isaiah 7:24 arrows H2671 bows H7198 come H935 (H8799) land H776 briers H8068 thorns H7898...
GOD'S JUDGMENT UPON AHAZ AND JUDAH (ISAIAH 7:20). God now declares certain judgment on Ahaz. Not only is his seed permanently rejected, but, having rejected the authority of Yahweh, he will now come...
CONTENTS: Evil confederacy of Rezin and Jekah. The sign of the Virgin's Son. Prediction of impending invasion of Judah. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Ahaz, Rezin, Pekah, Isaiah, Shear-jashub. CONCLUSION:...
Isaiah 7:1. _In the days of Ahaz,_ the second or the third year of his reign. Chapter s 5. and 6. are therefore out of place. Isaiah 7:6. _Let us go up against Judah and set a king in the midst of it,...
_The Lord shall bring upon thee. .. even the king of Assyria_ THE PROPHECY FULFILLED The calling in of Assur laid the foundation for the overthrow of the kingdom of Judah not less than for that of th...
A SENTENCE OF DOOM Isaiah 7:17. _The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, &c._ I. GOD IS SOVEREIGN IN THE WHOLE EARTH. He is the great controller of all nations. All governments are but i...
ISAIAH’S INTERVIEW WITH AHAZ Isaiah 7:3. _Then said the Lord unto Isaiah, &c._ In this interview of Isaiah with Ahaz we have an instance— I. OF GOD’S EFFORTS TO TURN MEN FROM RUINOUS COURSES. God is...
SECTION IV. PROPHECIES CONNECTED WITH THE SYRO-ISRAELITE WAR (Isaiah 7-10:4). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 7:1 THE PROPHECY GIVEN TO AHAZ
Now Uzziah is dead and his grandson Ahaz is reigning. It came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, the king of Judah, that Rezin was the king of Syria, and Pekah was the...
Genesis 27:3...
With arrows — Either to hunt, or to defend themselves from wild beasts, which commonly abide in desolate grounds....