Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 29:24
That erred — Those Gentiles who erred from God's truth. Murmured — They that murmured at God's faithful teachers, shall now receive God's truth in the love of it.
That erred — Those Gentiles who erred from God's truth. Murmured — They that murmured at God's faithful teachers, shall now receive God's truth in the love of it.
THEY ALSO THAT ERRED IN SPIRIT - (see Isaiah 29:9). SHALL LEARN DOCTRINE - When” this would occur the prophet does not state. It “may” be intended to denote the times of Hezekiah; or the times subsequ...
CHAPTER 29 The Second Woe Against Ariel and the Third Woe 1. _The fall of Ariel (Jerusalem) predicted (Isaiah 29:1)_ 2. _Their enemies dealt with by Jehovah (Isaiah 29:5)_ 3. The people's condition:...
SHALL COME, &C.. shall know discernment....
The meaning is that even the least capable and most refractory classes of the community shall willingly subject themselves to the teaching of revelation. _understanding_and _doctrine_are words charac...
Isaiah 29:15-24 A Messianic forecast The third "Woe" (Isaiah 29:15), directed against the political intrigue with Egypt, merely serves as a point of attachment for a glowing description of the regene...
THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD— These verses contain the third consequence of turning Lebanon into a fruitful field;—the Gentiles being called to the privileges of the Christian dispensation. The proph...
5. SANCTIFICATION TEXT: Isaiah 29:17-24 17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest? 18 And in th...
They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine. THEY ALSO THAT ERRED - (.) SHALL LEARN DOCTRINE - rather, shall receive discipline or inst...
29:24 disobedient (h-13) Or 'they that murmur.'...
WARNINGS TO JUDAH These Chapter s refer to the state of affairs during the reign of Hezekiah, when Palestine was threatened by Assyria, and an influential party in Judah favoured resistance, relying...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 29 THE FATE OF *JERUSALEM V1 *Woe to *Jerusalem, the city of David! It will not matt...
THEY THAT MURMURED SHALL LEARN DOCTRINE. — Better, _instruction._ The word is prominent in the sapiential books of Israel, and is therefore adapted to describe the process of growth and education that...
וְ יָדְע֥וּ תֹֽעֵי ־ר֖וּחַ בִּינָ֑ה וְ רֹוגְנ
BOOK 3 ORATIONS ON THE EGYPTIAN INTRIGUES AND ORACLES ON FOREIGN NATIONS 705-702 B.C. Isaiah: 29 About 703 30 A little later 31 A little later 32:1-8 Later 32:9-20 Date uncertain ------------...
This is the first of a series of declamations concerning the chosen people, and sets forth the purpose of Jehovah in judgment. The message opens with a description of the judgment (verses Isa 29:1-4),...
They also that erred in spirit (r) shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine. (r) Signifying that unless God gives understanding and knowledge, man cannot but still err...
_Murmured. Magicians, (Grotius) or false sages, chap. xxviii. 9. (Calmet)_...
REFLECTIONS MY soul! learn from Jerusalem's transgressions, and from Jerusalem's sorrow, how to form proper conceptions of thy unworthiness, and the Lord's chastisement of thy sins. Surely, as in a m...
Reader! above all things, do remark how gracious the Chapter closeth. The Lord will be friends with Jacob, notwithstanding all his rebellion. The cause is assigned, the Lord redeemed Abraham, that is,...
24._Then shall the erring in spirit learn wisdom. _He again repeats that promise which he formerly noticed briefly; for so long as the understandings of men shall be struck with ignorance and blindnes...
Jerusalem is reduced to the last extremity. But this time Jehovah appears for her deliverance, and the multitude of her enemies disappear as a dream of the night. Everything is dark and gloomy as to t...
THEY ALSO THAT ERRED IN SPIRIT,.... In judgment, and in spiritual things; as the Jews have done, ever since the Messiah's coming, being given up to a spirit of error, as the Targum, on Isaiah 29:10 c...
They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine. Ver. 24. _They also that erred in spirit._] Erroneous opinions, and muttering against minister...
_Therefore thus saith the Lord_ These verses contain the third consequence of turning Lebanon into a fruitful field; “a wonderful increase of the true seed of Abraham and Jacob disseminated through th...
THE COUNSEL OF GOD...
They also that erred in spirit, those whose spirit had forsaken the way of the Lord, SHALL COME TO UNDERSTANDING, namely, that of God's will and ways, AND THEY THAT MURMURED SHALL LEARN DOCTRINE, rece...
SHALL COME TO UNDERSTANDING: _ Heb._ shall know understanding...
17-24 The wonderful change here foretold, may refer to the affairs of Judah, though it looks further. When a great harvest of souls was gathered to Christ from among the Gentiles, then the wilderness...
THEY ALSO THAT ERRED IN SPIRIT; those Gentiles whose spirits or minds were ignorant of and erred from God's truth, and who were led aside by a lying spirit, or by the spirit of error and delusion, to...
Isaiah 29:24 erred H8582 (H8802) spirit H7307 come H3045 (H8804) understanding H998 complained H7279 (H8803) learn...
IF THEY WERE WISE THEY WOULD RECOGNISE THAT GOD HAS EVERYTHING IN HAND (ISAIAH 29:17). For the truth is that Yahweh, the Potter, will take the poor and the lowly and will work on them to make of them...
THE THIRD WOE: AGAINST THOSE WHO SEEK TO HIDE WHAT THEY DO FROM GOD, BUT YAHWEH WILL TRIUMPH IN SPITE OF IT (ISAIAH 29:15). Analysis. a Woe to those who seek deep, to hide their counsel from Yahweh,...
CONTENTS: Warnings to Judah and Jerusalem of impending discipline. The blessing after the final deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, David, Abraham. CONCLUSION: Those who are formal and hypocritical in the...
Isaiah 29:1. _Woe to Ariel,_ the lion of God, or the strong lion, for _El_ is often rendered _strong_ or _rock,_ as in Psalms 42:9. “God my rock.” The city of Jerusalem was that strong rock, or strong...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 29:22 Despite their failures, God will keep his promises to Abraham’s descendants. ⇐ ⇔
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 29:1 A WARNING TO JERUSALEM. Expostulation is followed by threats. The prophet is aware that all his preaching to the authorities in Jerusalem (Isaiah 28:14) will be of no avail, an...
Chapter 29, the woe unto Jerusalem. Ariel means the lion of God. It is one of the names for Jerusalem. Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, [the lion of God] the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let th...
1 Corinthians 6:11; 1 Timothy 1:13; Acts 2:37; Acts 6:7; Acts 9:19;...