It is evident that this chapter was composed at about the same time as
the preceding, and relates to the same subject. The general object,
like the former, is to dissuade the Jews from their contempla...
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...
The Impossibility of Human Help: the Certainty of Divine Protection
The alliance with Egypt (now apparently consummated) is again the
starting point of this fifth "Woe." As in ch. Isaiah 29:5-7, ther...
_THE PROPHET SHEWETH THE EXTREME FOLLY OF TRUSTING TO EGYPT, AND
FORSAKING GOD: HE EXHORTETH TO CONVERSION: HE SHEWETH THE FALL OF
ASSYRIA._
_Before Christ 713._
THIS and the following chapter, whic...
EXAMINATION
Chapter S THIRTY THROUGH THIRTY-ONE
DEFINITION
(Define the following words or phrases as they were discussed in the
comments.)
1.
_burden_ of the beasts of the South
2.
_Rahab_ that...
INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 31
This chapter denounces woe to those that trusted in the Egyptians;
assures the Jews of God's care and protection of them; calls them to
repentance, and foretells the destruc...
CHAPTER 31 THE FIFTH WOE ON THOSE WHO TRUST TO EGYPT AND TO THE
STRENGTH OF THEIR HORSE PROPELLED ARMAMENTS. RATHER THEY MUST TRUST IN
YAHWEH WHO WILL FIGHT FOR THEM.
This chapter is a chapter of cont...