Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 28:20
For — For those lying refuges, to which you trust, will not be able to give you that protection, which you expect from them; no more than a man can stretch himself upon a bed that is too short for him.
For — For those lying refuges, to which you trust, will not be able to give you that protection, which you expect from them; no more than a man can stretch himself upon a bed that is too short for him.
Verse Isaiah 28:20. _FOR THE BED IS SHORTER_] A _mashal_ or proverbial saying, the meaning of which is, that they will find all means of defence and protection insufficient to secure them, and cover...
FOR THE BED IS SHORTER ... - This is evidently a proverbial saying, and means that they would find all their places of defense insufficient to secure them. They seek repose and security - as a man lie...
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...
THE BED, &C. This allegory is to show that their false security as to the approach of Sennacherib would afford them no real rest, it would soon be disturbed....
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...
A proverbial expression for the intolerable situation which the politicians are preparing for themselves and their country....
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...
For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. FOR THE BED IS SHORTER ... - proverbial for extreme straits. They s...
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...
Depicts in an expressive figure the failure ending in restless discomfort and distress, towards which the policy of the dominant party is tending....
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...
God uses some popular phrases from Isaiah’s time. The agreement that Judah has made with Egypt (verse 15) is hopeless. It cannot protect the nation....
FOR THE BED IS SHORTER... — The image represents vividly a policy that ended in failure. Hezekiah’s counsellors had “made their bed,” and would have to lie on it, in their Egyptian alliance, but it wo...
כִּֽי ־קָצַ֥ר הַ מַּצָּ֖ע מֵֽ הִשְׂתָּרֵ֑עַ ו
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...
For the bed is (z) shorter than that [a man] can stretch himself [on it]: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself [in it]. (z) Your affliction will be so sore, that you are not able t...
_Straitened. It is too narrow to hold two: God will have the bed of our heart all to himself. (Challoner) (1 Corinthians x. 20., and 2 Corinthians vi. 14.) (St. Jerome, &c.) --- The Jews explain it of...
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...
20._For the bed shall be short. _By this metaphor he adorns the former statement; for he compares the reprobate, who are pressed down by the hand of God, to those who have concealed themselves in a “s...
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...
FOR THE BED IS SHORTER THAN THAT [A MAN] CAN STRETCH HIMSELF [ON IT],.... When a bed is short, a man cannot lie at his full length, and at ease: AND THE COVERING NARROWER THAN THAT HE CAN WRAP HIMSEL...
For the bed is shorter than that [a man] can stretch himself [on it]: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself [in it]. Ver. 20. _For the bed is short._] Here the prophet seemeth to so...
_For the bed is shorter_, &c. For those lying refuges, to which you trust, will not be able to give you that protection which you expect from them, no more than a man can stretch himself upon a bed th...
For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it, and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it, that is, the people of Jerusalem would find that the Egyptian covenant...
THE FALSE QND THE TRUE REFUGE...
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...
For those lying refuges to which you trust will not be able to give you that protection and comfort which you expect from them, no more than a man can stretch himself (as these luxurious Israelites us...
Isaiah 28:20 bed H4702 short H7114 (H8804) out H8311 (H8692) covering H4541 narrow H6887 (H8804) wrap...
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...
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...
_For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it_ THE SHORT BED AND THE NARROW COVERING The Jewish beds were only mattresses, laid on the floor; and the cover was s sheet, or carpet...
_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...
A SHORT BED AND NARROW BLANKETS For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it; and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it. Isaiah 28:20. There was a boy his nam...
THE SHORT BED AND THE NARROW COVERING Isaiah 28:20. _For the bed is shorter, &c._ Of all the striking images made use of in this chapter, none was so likely to catch the ear, and impress itself on th...
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...
1 Corinthians 1:18; Isaiah 57:12; Isaiah 57:13; Isaiah 59:5; Is