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Matthew Henry Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 29 - Introduction

* Judgements on Jerusalem and on its enemies. (1-8) The senselessness and hypocrisy of the Jews. (9-16) The conversion of the Gentiles, and future blessings for the Jews. (17-24)

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See also Isaiah 29 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    This chapter relates solely to Jerusalem - here called Ariel (see the note at Isaiah 29:1). It is not immediately connected with the preceding or the following chapters, though it is not improbable th...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH 28-31. In the main these Chapter s belong to the period before Sennacherib's invasion in 701 (pp. 59, 71f.). Special prominence is given to the project of an alliance with Egypt, which was stre...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _GOD'S HEAVY JUDGMENT UPON JERUSALEM. THE UNSATIABLENESS OF HER ENEMIES. THE SENSELESSNESS AND DEEP HYPOCRISY OF THE JEWS. A PROMISE OF SANCTIFICATION TO THE GODLY._ _Before Christ 712._ THE second...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    EXAMINATION Chapter S TWENTY-EIGHT THROUGH TWENTY-NINE DEFINITION (Define the following words or phrases as they were discussed in the comments.) 1. _fat valley_ 2. a _mighty_ and _strong_ one...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:1 (d-0) (The title of this book, 'Isaiah'), Meaning, 'Salvation of Jah.' see Psalms 68:4 ....

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 29 This chapter contains a prophecy concerning the destruction of the temple and city of Jerusalem by the Romans; the character and condition of the people of the Jews, previou...

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

    "_A.M. 3279. B.C. 725._ One principal “subject of this and the four following Chapter s is the invasion of the Assyrians, and the great distress of the Jews while it continued; their sudden and unexp...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    CHAPTER 29 THE SECOND WOE. A WOE AGAINST THE FALSE JERUSALEM. Isaiah stresses that although they boast of their city as the city of David, Yahweh will soon cause her to be besieged by an army which H...

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