Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 28:9
He — God. Them — Who is there among this people that are willing to be taught the knowledge of God? A minister may as soon teach an infant as these men.
He — God. Them — Who is there among this people that are willing to be taught the knowledge of God? A minister may as soon teach an infant as these men.
Verse Isaiah 28:9. _WHOM SHALL HE TEACH KNOWLEDGE?_ - "Whom, say they, would he teach knowledge?"] The scoffers mentioned below, Isaiah 28:14, are here introduced as uttering their sententious speech...
WHOM SHALL HE TEACH KNOWLEDGE? - This verse commences a statement respecting another form of sin that prevailed among the people of Judah. That sin was contempt for the manner in which God instructed...
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...
WHOM. Whom [say they]. MILK. BREASTS? (Two questions.)...
The retort of the revellers to Isaiah's recriminations. The meaning is: "Who are we that we should thus be lectured by this man? Are we newly-weaned infants, &c.?" (cf. R.V.). _Whom will he teach know...
The occasion of this remarkable encounter was probably a feast held to celebrate the renunciation of allegiance to Assyria. Isaiah has surprised the drunkards over their cups and administered some suc...
WHOM SHALL HE TEACH KNOWLEDGE?— This period, though different in words, is the same in sense with that preceding. The meaning is, that the teachers, priests, and elders of the people, whose duty it wa...
V. EMANCIPATION NOT FROM EGYPT Chapter S 28 - 35 A. FOUNDATION THAT IS FIRM, Chapter S 28-29 1. STUPIDITY TEXT: Isaiah 28:1-13 1 Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fa...
In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people, -The prophet now turns to Judah, a gracious promise to the remnant ("residue...
They mock the prophet; his teaching is only fit for babes!...
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...
Even the plain words that Isaiah used to warn the leaders sounded like nonsense to them. They complain that his words are just strange sounds....
WHOM SHALL HE TEACH KNOWLEDGE? — The two verses that follow reproduce the language of the drunkards as they talk scornfully of the prophet. “To whom does he come with what he calls his ‘knowledge’ and...
אֶת ־מִי֙ יֹורֶ֣ה דֵעָ֔ה וְ אֶת ־מִ֖י
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...
THE DECAY OF AN INTEMPERATE PEOPLE Isaiah 28:1-13 A new series of prophecies begins here and extends to Isaiah 32:20. Samaria is described as a faded crown or garland on the nation's head because it...
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...
(h) Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? [them that are] weaned from the milk, [and] drawn from the breasts. (h) For there was no one that was able to underst...
_Breasts? St. Paul seems to allude to this text, 1 Corinthians iii. 2. (Calmet) --- The abandoned Jews ask contemptuously, if they be to be taught like children? (Haydock)_...
Here is another solemn charge, and more pointed than the former. Errors are not only found in Ephraim, but in Judah; not only among the carnal, but the professor. Yea, God's ministers, both prophet an...
9._Whom shall he teach knowledge? _Here the Prophet shews by an expression of amazement, that the disease of the people is incurable, and that God has no other remedies adapted to cure them, for he ha...
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...
WHOM SHALL HE TEACH KNOWLEDGE?.... Not the drunken priest or prophet, who were both unfit for teaching men knowledge; but either the true and godly priest or prophet of the Lord, or the Lord himself,...
_Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? [them that are] weaned from the milk, [and] drawn from the breasts._ Ver. 9. _Whom shall he teach knowledge?_] _Quem doc...
_Whom shall he_ Namely, God, or his prophet, or minister; _teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine?_ Who is there among this people, that are capable and willing to be taught th...
Whom shall he teach knowledge? so they sneeringly ask. AND WHOM SHALL HE MAKE TO UNDERSTAND DOCTRINE? presuming to teach them knowledge. THEM THAT ARE WEANED FROM THE MILK AND DRAWN FROM THE BREASTS....
CONCERNING SAMARIA AND JERUSALEM. Chapter s 28 to 33 in the Book of Isaiah contain a cycle of prophecies and proclamations concerning the relation of Judah to Assyria in the time of King Hezekiah. Aha...
DOCTRINE?: _ Heb._ the hearing...
5-15 The prophet next turns to Judah, whom he calls the residue of his people. Happy are those alone, who glory in the Lord of hosts himself. Hence his people get wisdom and strength for every servic...
WHOM SHALL HE, to wit, _the teacher_, which is easily understood out of the following verb; either God, or his prophets, or ministers; TEACH KNOWLEDGE? who is there among this people that are capable...
Isaiah 28:9 teach H3384 (H8686) knowledge H1844 understand H995 (H8799) message H8052 weaned H1580 (H8803) milk...
HIS OPPONENT MOCK ISAIAH'S TEACHING (ISAIAH 28:9). Isaiah's opponents mock him because all that he does is proclaim a repetitive message. In their view that is to treat them like children. But his rep...
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...
_Whom shall He teach knowledge?_ THE SCOFFING DRUNKARDS They scoff at the prophet, that intolerable moralist. They are full-grown and free; he need not teach them knowledge Isaiah 11:9), and explain...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 28:1 God’s Sovereign Word Spoken into the World: “Ah!” God controls history (chs. Isaiah 28:1), moving events toward final judgment and salvation (chs.
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 28:9 The priests and prophets dismiss Isaiah’s message as too simplistic (compare 1 Corinthians 2:14)....
EARLY RELIGIOUS TRAINING (_Sunday School Anniversary Sermon_.) Isaiah 28:9. _Whom shall He teach knowledge?_ &c. Whether we regard these verses as the language of the drunkards of Ephraim, deriding t...
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 Peter 2:2; Isaiah 30:10; Isaiah 53:1; Jeremiah 5:31; Jeremiah 6:10;