Nations. Surprised that Ezechias should escape, while the power of the Philistines was overturned so easily; or when the king sent ambassadors to his allies, to announce the defeat of Sennacherib by the angel. All confessed that this was an effect of the divine protection towards Sion. (Calmet)
Verse Isaiah 14:32. _THE MESSENGERS OF THE NATION_ - "The ambassadors of the nations"] The _Septuagint_ read גוים _goyim_, εθνων, plural; and so the _Chaldee_, and one MS. The ambassadors of the neig...
WHAT SHALL ONE THEN ANSWER - The design of this verse is obvious. It is to show that Judea would be safe from the invasions of the Philistines, and that God was the protector of Zion. For this purpose...
CHAPTER 14 Israel's Restoration and Blessing After Babylon is Fallen and the Burden of Philistia 1. _Israel's restoration and exaltation (Isaiah 14:1)_ 2. _The proverb against the king of Babylon (Is...
PHILISTIA'S EXULTATION IS PREMATURE: WORSE CALAMITIES ARE AT HAND. The Philistines are warned not to rejoice that the rod which has oppressed them is broken, for the tyrant's successor will smite them...
ONE THEN ANSWER. what report shall the messengers or ambassadors of the nations take back? THE NATION. a nation. THAT, &C. This is the report. THE POOR. oppressed ones. Hebrew. _'ani._ TRUST IN IT...
Isaiah 14:24-32. Two Isaianic Fragments 2 Samuel 14:24; 2 Samuel 14:24. An announcement of Jehovah's purpose to destroy the Assyrians on the soil of Canaan. In spite of the absence of a title these v...
The oracle ends, in a manner characteristic of Isaiah, with a piece of practical advice to the political leaders of the state. Some words have probably dropped out of the first half of the verse. _the...
DISCOURSE: 884 GOD’S CHURCH AND PEOPLE SECURE Isaiah 14:32. _What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the Lord hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it_, G...
HOWL, O GATE; &C.— _Howl, O gate; cry, O city; all of thee is dissolved, O Palestine; for,_ &c.—_And there shall not be a solitary one among his legions._ Vitringa: see also Bishop Lowth. In this latt...
d. DOMINATED TEXT: Isaiah 14:28-32 28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden. 29 Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of thee, because the rod that smote thee is broken; for out of the serpent'...
What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it. WHAT SHALL ONE THEN ANSWER THE MESSENGERS OF THE NATION? When...
1. STRANGERS] The thought of the voluntary adhesion of strangers is prominent in the later Chapter s of the book (Isaiah 44:5; Isaiah 55:5; Isaiah 60:5)....
WARNING TO THE PHILISTINES This prophecy is assigned, in the title prefixed to it, to the year that king Ahaz died (728 b.c.). The Philistines are represented as exulting over the death of their oppre...
TRUST] RV 'take refuge.'...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 14 THE *LORD’S PEOPLE WILL COME HOME V1 The *Lord will pity the peo...
People will never find real safety in great armies. They will only find real safety in the great *Lord God. LORD ~ God’s name in the Bible. In the original language, God’s names mean ‘head over all’ a...
WHAT SHALL ONE THEN ANSWER...? — The words obviously imply that the prophet either had received, or expected to receive, a message of inquiry from the Philistines, and that this is his answer. It seem...
וּ מַֽה ־יַּעֲנֶ֖ה מַלְאֲכֵי ־גֹ֑וי כִּ֤י יְה
CHAPTER XVII ISAIAH TO THE FOREIGN NATIONS 736-702 B.C. Isaiah 14:24; Isaiah 15:1; Isaiah 16:1; Isaiah 17:1;...
CHAPTER XXVII BABYLON AND LUCIFER DATE UNCERTAIN Isaiah 13:1; Isaiah 14:1 THIS double oracle is against the City Isaiah 13:2; I
In this section we have three prophecies: concerning Assyria Isaiah 14:24), concerning Philistia Isaiah 14:28), and the commencement of one concerning Moab (15). This fragment concerning Assyria consi...
What shall [one] then answer the (y) messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded (z) Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it. (y) Who will come to enquire of the state of the Chur...
This verse forms a blessed conclusion to the whole subject of Babylon's burden. It is as if the prophet had said, "Should any one of the nations around behold Babylon's fall, and Israel's emancipation...
32._And what shall be answered to the messengers of the nation? _I choose to interpret this of any _nations _whatever, and not of a single _nation_; for strangers, as soon as they enter into any city,...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 AND 14. With chapter 12 one division of the whole book closes. That which commences with chapter 13 continues to the end of chapter 27, which describes th...
WHAT SHALL [ONE] THEN ANSWER THE MESSENGERS OF THE NATION?.... Or nations, of any of the nations. Not the messengers sent to Hezekiah, Isaiah 39:1 but rather such as were sent to him, to congratulate...
What shall [one] then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it. Ver. 32. _That the Lord hath founded Zion._] Not Hezekiah, bu...
_What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation_ At the same time that “the prophet sees, as it were, a thick cloud, coming from the north, darkening the heavens, an emblem of the calamity co...
PROPHECIES AGAINST ASSYRIA AND PHILISTIA...
What shall one, then, answer the messengers of the nation? What answer do the messengers of the nation bring? What report did the ambassadors of various heathen nations make when they returned to thei...
TRUST IN IT: Or, betake themselves unto it...
28-32 Assurance is given of the destruction of the Philistines and their power, by famine and war. Hezekiah would be more terrible to them than Uzziah had been. Instead of rejoicing, there would be l...
WHAT SHALL ONE THEN ANSWER THE MESSENGERS OF THE NATION? what shall a Jew say to the people of other nations, who shall either be sent or come to inquire concerning the state of Zion in that day, when...
Isaiah 14:32 answer H6030 (H8799) messengers H4397 nation H1471 LORD H3068 founded H3245 (H8765) Zion H6726 poor...
THE BURDEN OF PHILISTIA (ISAIAH 14:28). This comes ‘in the year that King Ahaz died'. Thus it is probable that we are to see some connection between the death and the oracle. Philistia are told that...
TRUST (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12).) _...
Isaiah 14:32 "The Lord hath founded Zion;" this is the guarantee of His love and her stability. "The poor of her people shall trust in it" or, as the margin has it, shall betake themselves unto it th...
Isaiah 14:1. _For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jaco...
CONTENTS: Christ's Kingdom set up on earth with Israel restored, the Beast of hell. Satan's fall and doom. Babylon's final judgment. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: It is the comfort of God's people tha...
Isaiah 14:1. _And set them in their own land._ This prediction is so correct, as appears from the books of Nehemiah and Ezra, that no man can doubt the truth of prophecy; and its literal accomplishmen...
_What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation?_ GOD’S WORK IN FOUNDING ZION The kingdom of Judah was low and broken; foreign invasions and intestine divisions had made it so. In this state...
_Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina_ PHILISTIA Philistia was the southwest coast of the land of Canaan, to the whole of which it afterwards gave its name in the Greek form of Palestine, and was nomin...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 14:28 The second oracle of Isaiah 13:1 concerns Philistia. ⇐...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 14:30 God promises SAFETY for his own but FEAR for Philistia, which is left without a REMNANT....
A MEMORABLE ANSWER Isaiah 14:32. _What shall one answer? &c._ Translators and interpreters differ as to whether the answer in this verse was intended to be given _by_ or _to_ the messengers of the na...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 14:1 THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL, AND HER SONG OF TRIUMPH OVER BABYLON. The destruction of Babylon is to be followed by the restoration of Israel, with the good w
For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob (Isaiah 14:1...
2 Kings 20:12; 2 Samuel 8:10; Hebrews 12:22; Isaiah 11:4; Isaiah 12:6
What — What shall a Jew say to the people of other nations, who shall enquire concerning the state of Zion, when not only the Philistines, but even the Jews themselves, shall fall by the hands of the...