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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Isaiah 20:2

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 would represent better the condition of slaves, (ver. 4.) and is adopted by St. Jerome, &c. (Calmet) --- People are said to be naked when they are almost so, 2 Kings vi., and John xxi. (Haydock) --- Yet "nothing is more honest than to obey God." (St. Jerome) (Worthington)

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CHAPTER TWENTY 4. EGYPT AND ETHIOPIA TEXT: Isaiah 20:1-6 1 In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it; 2 at that...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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. SPA...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    בָּ † עֵ֣ת הַ הִ֗יא דִּבֶּ֣ר יְהוָה֮...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

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

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE SYMBOL OF EGYPT'S AND ETHIOPIA'S FALL....

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    BY ISAIAH: _ Heb._ by the hand of Isaiah...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 20:2 time H6256 LORD H3068 spoke H1696 (H8765) by H3027 Isaiah H3470 son H1121 Amoz H531 saying...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 19:24; 2 Kings 1:8; 2 Samuel 6:20; Acts 19:16; Exodus 3:5;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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...

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