I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians; I will raise civil wars among them. Kingdom against kingdom; for although all Egypt was now one kingdom, and under one king, yet not many years after this time it was divided into twelve several kingdoms, between whom there were many and cruel wars, as is related by the historians of those times, and particularly by Herodotus and Diodorus.
AND I WILL SET - (סכסכתי _sı̂ksaketı̂y_). This word (from סכך _sākak_) means properly “to cover,” to spread over, to hide, conceal, to protect. Another signification of the verb is, to weave, to inte...
CHAPTER 19 The Burden of Egypt 1. _The judgment announced (Isaiah 19:1)_ 2. _Egypt blest with Israel in the last days (Isaiah 19:16) _ Egypt has passed through many judgments. Hundreds of years after...
ISAIAH 19. ORACLE ON EGYPT. This is one of the most difficult Chapter s in the book. It falls into two sections, Isaiah 19:1 and Isaiah 19:18. If Isaiah 19:1 is in the main from Isaiah, it probably re...
SET THE EGYPTIANS, &C. Referring to the anarchy consequent on the defeat of Egypt by Sargon (688 B.C.)...
The dissolution of the Egyptian nationality by the judicial intervention of Jehovah....
Jehovah speaks. The description of anarchy and civil war recalls ch. Isaiah 3:5; Isaiah 9:18 ff. _I will set … Egyptians_ Lit. I WILL STIR UP (see ch. Isaiah 9:11) EGYPT AGAINST EGYPT the general expr...
AND I WILL SET THE EGYPTIANS AGAINST THE EGYPTIANS— Two principal misfortunes of Egypt, on which the rest depend, are related in this prophesy; the _first,_ a civil war to arise in Egypt, with its con...
CHAPTER NINETEEN 2. EGYPT TEXT: Isaiah 19:1-15 1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, Jehovah rideth upon a swift cloud, and cometh unto Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall tremble at his presence; and the...
And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. I WILL S...
THE JUDGMENT, ON EGYPT A prophecy concerning Egypt, probably belonging to the same period as Isaiah 18, and designed to show the speedy collapse of Egypt's power, on which a strong political party in...
Civil war rages between the petty princes of lower Egypt....
God is causing these quarrels to happen. He will greatly upset all kinds of relations. So the *Egyptians will be even less able to oppose any attack by an enemy....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 19 GOD WILL PUNISH EGYPT V1 God gave this special message to Isaiah...
וְ סִכְסַכְתִּ֤י מִצְרַ֨יִם֙ בְּ מִצְרַ֔יִם וְ...
CHAPTER XVII ISAIAH TO THE FOREIGN NATIONS 736-702 B.C. Isaiah 14:24; Isaiah 15:1; Isaiah 16:1; Isaiah 17:1;...
These two Chapter s (19, 20) contain the burden of Egypt. Its doom is first declared (19: 1-15). Jehovah's advent will result in the destruction of idols, in civil war, in failure in counsel, and in t...
And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall (c) fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, [and] kingdom against kingdom. (c) A...
_Kingdom. Under the twelve kings. (Calmet)_...
Here is the same subject of national distress for the burden of Egypt, as that of Damascus or Moab, though the end differs: foreign wars, and domestic jealousies are predicted: so that every man's han...
2._And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians. _Here he describes more particularly the calamity which the Lord had determined to bring on Egypt. By the expression, _I will set, _he means the...
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...
AND I WILL SET THE EGYPTIANS AGAINST THE EGYPTIANS,.... Or mingle and confound them together; in which confusion they should fall upon and destroy one another, as the Midianites did: the phrase is exp...
_And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, [and] kingdom against kingdom._ Ver. 2...
_I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians_ Two principal calamities to befall Egypt are foretold in this prophecy; the first of which is here described: civil wars should arise among them. _They...
A THREAT OF DESTRUCTION...
And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians, inciting them to civil war and anarchy such as we are told of by secular historians; AND THEY SHALL FIGHT EVERY ONE AGAINST HIS BROTHER AND EVERY ON...
SET: _ Heb._ mingle...
1-17 God shall come into Egypt with his judgments. He will raise up the causes of their destruction from among themselves. When ungodly men escape danger, they are apt to think themselves secure; but...
Isaiah 19:2 set H5526 (H8773) Egyptians H4714 Egyptians H4714 Everyone H376 fight H3898 (H8738) brother H251 everyone...
‘The burden of Egypt. Behold Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. And the idols of Egypt will be removed at his presence, and the heart of Egypt will melt in the midst of it. And I will...
CONTENTS: Burden of Egypt, looking forward, through desolations, to Kingdom blessing with Israel. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The barbarous usage which the enemies of God have given His people, eve...
Isaiah 19:4. _A cruel lord._ Such was Nebuchadnezzar; and after him, Cambyses, and other Persian kings. One oppression succeeded another, as illustrated in Daniel 11. Isaiah 19:11. _The princes of Zoa...
_And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians_ DIVINE PROVIDENCE IN CIVIL STRIFE This method of administration, we say, obtains and prevails in all ages. This is the meaning of many a controve...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 19:1 The fifth oracle concerns Egypt. Judah turned to Egypt for deliverance from Assyria. God has the power both to judge and to save Egypt, but Judah would rather trust Egypt th...
TRUE NATIONAL GREATNESS Isaiah 19:1; Isaiah 19:14. _The burden of Egypt, &c._ The prophecies of Isaiah take a wide range, embrace the fortunes of almost every nation, however remote, with whom the Is...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 19:1 THE BURDEN OF EGYPT. It has been doubted whether this prophecy refers to the conquest of Egypt by Piankhi, as related in the monument which he set up at Napata, or to that by E...
Now he turns to Egypt. The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall...
1 Samuel 14:16; 1 Samuel 14:20; 2 Chronicles 20:22; 2 Chronicles 20:23;...
I will set — Egypt was now one kingdom, but not many years after this time it was divided into twelve kingdoms, between whom there were many and cruel wars....