Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Isaiah 28:18
Disannulled; made void, or of none effect; it shall stand you in no stead. Ye shall be trodden down by it; which you flattered yourselves that it should not come unto you, Isaiah 28:15.
Disannulled; made void, or of none effect; it shall stand you in no stead. Ye shall be trodden down by it; which you flattered yourselves that it should not come unto you, Isaiah 28:15.
Verse Isaiah 28:18. _YOUR COVENANT WITH DEATH SHALL BE DISANNULLED _- "Your covenant with death shall be broken"] For כפר _caphar_, which seems not to belong to this place, the _Chaldee_ reads תפר _t...
AND YOUR COVENANT WITH DEATH - (see the note at Isaiah 28:15). SHALL BE DISANNULLED - The word rendered ‘shall be disannulled,’ (וכפר _v__e__kupar_ from כפר _kâphar_), properly means “to cover, overl...
3. THE SIX WOES OF THE PROPHET, JUDGMENT RUINS AND RESTORATION GLORIES TO COME (28-35) CHAPTER 28 The First Woe and the Message of Assurance 1. _Ephraim addressed (Isaiah 28:1)_ 2. _Jerusalem equall...
JERUSALEM ALSO IS THREATENED WITH DESTRUCTION. But Jerusalem like Ephraim reels with intoxication, the priests and prophets especially. The prophet is not steady in his vision, the priest when pronoun...
See on Isaiah 28:15. _shall be disannulled_ lit. "smeared over" (cf. Genesis 6:14) i.e. "cancelled," "obliterated." The verb is the technical word for expiate (as e.g. Isaiah 22:14), and although it i...
There is again a _literary_connexion with what precedes; although the passage is probably a summary of an independent discourse. The prophet's aim is to impress on his opponents the disastrous consequ...
JUDGMENT ALSO WILL I LAY TO THE LINE— The prophet, having provided for the safety of those who put their trust in God, prepares himself to denounce the judgments ready for the profane and hypocritical...
2. STABILITY TEXT: Isaiah 28:14-29 14 Wherefore hear the word of Jehovah, ye scoffers, that rule this people that is in Jerusalem: 15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and...
And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it. DISANNULLED ...
This chapter must be assigned (Isaiah 28:1) to a date prior to the capture of Samaria by the Assyrians (722 b.c.) and fall of the northern kingdom. 1-6. Samaria's luxury and self-indulgence pave the...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 28 The next section of the Book of Isaiah is from Chapter 28 to Chapter 33. These Cha...
The force of the *Assyrian attack will be immense. It will be as if the vast waters of the Euphrates (an *Assyrian river) suddenly flooded the whole country called Judah....
וְ כֻפַּ֤ר בְּרִֽיתְכֶם֙ אֶת ־מָ֔וֶת וְ חָזוּ
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...
TRUTH THE ONLY REFUGE Isaiah 28:14-29 In the beginning of Hezekiah's reign the Jewish leaders had made an alliance with Assyria, on whom they relied to protect them against any and all foes. But the...
Here begins the third and last circle of the first division of the book. It consists of a series of prophecies concerning the chosen people and the world. In this chapter we have a graphic revelation...
I have often thought, that among all the unpromising appearances of things around, when men sin with a high hand, in slighting and despising both God's judgments and God's mercies; the most unpromisin...
18._And your covenant with death shall be disannulled. _Formerly he directed his reproof against hypocrites, who obstinately mocked at God and all his threatenings; and he checked their thoughts in im...
Chapter 28 sets before us the first elements of these final scenes in the history of this wonderful people. The scourge comes from the north. Ephraim is invaded as by an overflowing torrent, by a temp...
AND YOUR COVENANT WITH DEATH SHALL BE DISANNULLED,.... Or, "be besmeared" x, or daubed over, as the ark was with pitch, Genesis 6:14 where the same word is used as here; so that it shall not be legibl...
And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it. Ver. 18. _And yo...
_And your covenant with death shall be disannulled_ Made void, or of none effect. _Ye shall be trodden down_ Namely, by the overflowing scourge, which you flattered yourselves should not come unto you...
THE FALSE QND THE TRUE REFUGE...
And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, its writing obliterated and the covenant nullified, AND YOUR AGREEMENT WITH HELL, with the realm of death, SHALL NOT STAND, these enemies rather over...
TRODDEN DOWN BY IT: _ Heb._ a treading down to it...
16-22 Here is a promise of Christ, as the only foundation of hope for escaping the wrath to come. This foundation was laid in Zion, in the eternal counsels of God. This foundation is a stone, firm an...
Isaiah 28:18 covenant H1285 death H4194 annulled H3722 (H8795) agreement H2380 Sheol H7585 stand H6965 (H8799) over
ISAIAH STERNLY WARNS ABOUT THE THREATENING FUTURE IF THEY WILL NOT LOOK TO GOD'S SURE FOUNDATION (ISAIAH 28:14). The leaders of Judah reply that they are not afraid of his threats because they have go...
HELL Hebrew, "Sheol," (_ See Scofield) - (Habakkuk 2:5). _...
CONTENTS: Woe of Ephriam due to drunkenness. Prediction of Assyrian captivity of Ephriam. Ephriam's fate a warning to Judah. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The glorious beauty and the plenty of the lan...
Isaiah 28:1. _The crown of pride._ Sebaste, the ancient Samaria, is situated on a long mount of an oval figure, having first a fruitful valley, and then a circle of hills running round about it. _Maun...
_Hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men_ ISAIAH’S RESPONSE The prophet replies that when the storm does sweep over the land, as it assuredly will, these “refuges of lies” will prove no shelter to...
FALSE REFUGES Isaiah 28:18. _Your covenant with death shall be disannulled_. Like the sinners spoken of in this chapter, most sinful men say in effect, “We have made a covenant with death,” &c. (Isa...
SECTION VII. RENEWED DENUNCIATIONS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH (CH. 28-31.) EXPOSITION ISAIAH 28:1 A WARNING TO SAMARIA. The prophet has now east his eagle glance
Chapter 28. Now the prophet turns to the local present issues. He is now... he's gone off down the road to the end of things. Now he comes back and he begins to speak of the Northern Kingdom, the majo...
Daniel 11:40; Daniel 8:9; Daniel 9:26; Daniel 9:27; Ezekiel 17:15;...