The asp; a most fierce and poisonous serpent, Deuteronomy 32:33 Job 20:14,16, which also will not be charmed by any art of man, Psalms 58:5. The cockatrice; a serpent of more than ordinary cunning and cruelty, Proverbs 23:32. The meaning is, They shall not fear to be either deceived or destroyed by those who formerly watched all opportunities to do it.
Verse Isaiah 11:8. _THE COCKATRICE' DEN._] This is supposed, both by the _Targum_ and by _Kimchi_, to mean the pupil of this serpent's eye. "When," says _Kimchi_, "he is in the mouth of his den, in a...
AND THE SUCKING CHILD - An emblem here of harmlessness and innocence. The change in the world, under the Messiah, shall be as great as if a sucking infant should be able to play unharmed with a venomo...
CHAPTER 11 The Coming King and His Kingdom 1. _The King: Who He is and what He will do (Isaiah 11:1)_ 2. _The peace and blessing He brings (Isaiah 11:6)_ 3. The gathering of scattered Israel (Isaiah...
THE MESSIAH'S DIVINE EQUIPMENT. If the reference to the hewn stump of David's house implies the overthrow of the monarchy, the passage presumably is not Isaiah's. This inference, perhaps, is not neces...
COCKATRICE' = viper's. Hebrew. _zepha'._ Occurs only here in "former" portion; and in Isaiah 59:5 in "latter". App-79....
The most startling contrast of all, the innocent babe playing with the deadly serpent. _asp_ Heb. _pethen_, rendered "adder" in Psalms 58:4; Psalms 91:13, elsewhere as here. The species has not been i...
Isaiah 11:1-9. The Messiah and His Kingdom It is interesting to compare this passage with ch. Isaiah 9:1-7. There the delineation of the Messianic age starts from its broadest and most general featur...
This remarkable prophecy of the idyllic state of the brute creation is imitated in the Sibylline Oracles (3:766 ff.) and more faintly echoed in the Fourth and Fifth Eclogues of Vergil. Similarly, an A...
DISCOURSE: 876 THE CHANGE TO BE WROUGHT BY THE GOSPEL IN THE LATTER DAY Isaiah 11:6. The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young li...
THE WOLF ALSO SHALL DWELL WITH THE LAMB— We have here the illustrious consequence of the oeconomy of this divine kingdom, this kingdom of righteousness, equity, faith, and grace. Who can wonder that a...
CHAPTER ELEVEN E. PROGRAM OF IMMANUEL 1. DIVINE DIRECTION TEXT: Isaiah 11:1-9 1 And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit: 2 and...
And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. AND THE SUCKING CHILD SHALL PLAY ON THE HOLE OF THE ASP - "play," literally...
1. ROD OUT OF THE STEM] RV 'shoot out of the stock,' implying that the tree has been cut down. The Assyrians have been compared in the vv. preceding to cedars, which when felled throw out no fresh suc...
COCKATRICE] RV 'basilisk,' or 'adder' (RM): probably the great yellow viper common in Palestine....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 11 THE KING WHO IS COMING V1 Like a branch that grows from a *stump...
The *Messiah’s arrival will bring about perfect harmony (peace and calm) in all life. This includes the animals, especially those animals that are natural enemies. No person or animal will be afraid o...
AND THE SUCKING CHILD SHALL PLAY ON THE HOLE OF THE ASP... — The description culminates in the transformation of the brute forms which were most identified with evil. As it is, the sight of a child ne...
וְ שִֽׁעֲשַׁ֥ע יֹונֵ֖ק עַל ־חֻ֣ר פָּ֑תֶן וְ
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...
THE KINGDOM OF THE MESSIAH Isaiah 10:33-34; Isaiah 11:1-9 The advance of the Assyrian along the great north road is graphically described. It was marked by raided villages and towns. The night sky wa...
In this section the prophet's eyes are lifted toward the light of a far-off day. With judgment imminent, he yet sees the ultimate issue of it all. There is fist a description of a Coming One Isaiah 11...
_Basilisk. Psalm ix. 13. The apostles subdued kings and philosophers, without any human advantages._...
Spiritual blessings are promised, under figurative expressions. Such are the blessed effects introduced into the circumstances of mankind by the gospel of Christ, that, like the beasts of the forest t...
8._And the child shall play on the hole of the asp. _He continues to illustrate the same sentiment, that when men have been brought into a state of favor with God, and have been cleansed from their de...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9:8-21, 10, 11, AND 12. In Isaiah 9:8 the Spirit, having given the great leading facts as to Messiah, Immanuel, resumes the general history of Israel without...
AND THE SUCKING CHILD SHALL PLAY ON THE HOLE OF THE ASP,.... Without fear or danger: AND THE WEANED CHILD SHALL PUT HIS HAND ON THE COCKATRICE'S DEN; and suffer no damage: the meaning is explained in...
And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. Ver. 8. _And the sucking child shall play upon the hole of the asp, &c._] Ther...
_The wolf shall dwell with the lamb_, &c. “We have here the illustrious consequence of the economy of this divine kingdom, this kingdom of righteousness, equity, faith, and grace.” The expressions whi...
And the sucking child, the unweaned infant, SHALL PLAY ON THE HOLE OF THE ASP, on the entrance of the adder's cave, AND THE WEANED CHILD SHALL PUT HIS HAND ON THE COCKATRICE'S DEN, or, stretch out his...
THE MESSIAH, THE BRANCH OUT OF THE STEM OF JESSE...
COCKATRICE: Or, adders...
1-9 The Messiah is called a Rod, and a Branch. The words signify a small, tender product; a shoot, such as is easily broken off. He comes forth out of the stem of Jesse; when the royal family was cut...
Isaiah 11:8 child H3243 (H8802) play H8173 (H8773) cobras H6620 hole H2352 child H1580 (H8803) put...
THE COMING PARADISE (ISAIAH 11:5). And now, having depicted a situation where good will triumph and evil perish, where all will be just and right, where everything will be in accord with the holiness...
CONTENTS: Prophecy of the Davidic Kingdom and restoration of Israel. CHARACTERS: Christ, Holy Spirit. CONCLUSION: The great comfort in days of distress is the hope of the coming universal kingdom of...
Isaiah 11:1. _A rod out of the stem of Jesse._ See the note on Isaiah 4:2. David's house had been cut down by Jehu, and latterly by the invasion against Ahaz: chap. 7. Now a branch shall arise out of...
_The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb_ A PORTRAIT OF HUMANITY I. THE MORAL VARIETIES OF THE RACE. Men are here represented by irrational creatures, differing immensely in their organisations, thei...
_And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse_ A PROPHECY CONCERNING MESSIAH THE PRINCE I. HIS RISE OUT OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID (Isaiah 11:1). II. HIS QUALIFICATIONS FOR HIS GREAT UNDERT...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 11:6 THE EARTH SHALL BE FULL OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD. The One whom Israel rejected as unhelpful renews the world (see...
ISAIAH’S VISION OF THE KING AND OF HIS KINGDOM Chapter S 11 AND 12 This is one of the visions that Isaiah _saw_ (chap. Isaiah 1:1, Isaiah 2:1, &c.). He was a dreamer of dreams. With a keen perception,...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 11:1 A RENEWED PROPHECY OF MESSIAH AND OF HIS KINGDOM. This chapter is closely connected with the preceding. With the final destruction of Assyria, which, being cut down, sends out...
Shall we turn to Isaiah, chapter 11, for the beginning of our study this evening. In the tenth chapter, the closing part of chapter 10 of Isaiah, and again, let me remind you that the chapter distinct...
Isaiah 59:5; Psalms 140:3...
FROM THE CRADLE TO THE CROSS Isaiah 11:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Holy Spirit in various parts of the Old Testament gave us all that we need to know beforehand about the birth, the life, the death, a...