Valleys — Such as they found fruitful, but made desolate. Rocks — To which possibly the Israelites fled for refuge. Bushes — Which he mentions because flies and bees use frequently to rest there; and to intimate, that no place should escape their fury.
Verse Isaiah 7:19. _HOLES OF THE ROCKS _- "Caverns"] So the _Septuagint,_ _Syriac_, and _Vulgate_, whence _Houbigant_ supposes the true reading to be הנחללים _hannachalolim_. One of my oldest MSS. rea...
AND THEY SHALL COME - The idea in this verse is, that they would spread over the land, and lay it waste. The poetic image of flies and bees is kept up; meaning, that the armies would be so numerous as...
CHAPTER 7 The Prophet before King Ahaz 1. _The king in trouble (Isaiah 7:1)_ 2. _Isaiah sent and his message (Isaiah 7:3)_ 3. _A sign offered and refused (Isaiah 7:10)_ 4. The sign: The virgin birth...
THE DEVASTATION OF JUDAH. Probably an independent prophecy rather than a continuation of Isaiah 7:2; it strikes a very different note. It may belong to the same date, but may quite well be later. Disa...
THORNS. the thorn bushes. BUSHES. the pastures....
Judah, as the theatre of the inevitable duel between Assyria and Egypt for the mastery of Asia, must endure all the horrors of the double invasion....
Further announcements (not addressed to Ahaz, but probably compiled from fragments of several of Isaiah's prophecies) of the Assyrian invasion (18 20) and its consequences (21 25)....
The figure is kept up. _desolate valleys_ rather, PRECIPITOUS RAVINES (lit. "valleys of precipices"). _upon all thorns … bushes_ Render: UPON ALL THE THORN-BUSHES (Isaiah 55:13) AND UPON ALL THE PASTU...
IN THE DESOLATE VALLEYS, &C.— _In the waste valleys, and in the holes of the rock, and upon all thorny grounds, and upon all the well-watered places._ Schultens....
CALAMITY TEXT: Isaiah 7:17-25 17 Jehovah will bring upon thee, and upon thy people and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah. even the king...
And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes. THEY ... SHALL REST - image of flies and bees kept...
1-16. Isaiah assures Ahaz by a sign that Judah will be delivered from Syria and Israel....
DESOLATE] RV 'rugged.' BUSHES] RV 'pastures.'...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 7 From now on in the Book of Isaiah, the names Israel and Eph...
THE DESOLATE VALLEYS... — The Hebrew adjective has rather the meaning of _precipitous_ or _steeply walled,_ and the noun that of _torrent valley,_ like the Arabic _wady._ The whole verse is a graphic...
וּ בָ֨אוּ וְ נָח֤וּ כֻלָּם֙ בְּ נַחֲלֵ֣י
CHAPTER V THE WORLD IN ISAIAH'S DAY AND ISRAEL'S GOD 735-730 B.C. UP to this point we have been acquainted with Isaiah as a prophet of general principles, preaching to his countrymen the elements of...
A FOREIGN FOE-GOD'S INSTRUMENT Isaiah 7:18-25; Isaiah 8:1-4 Ahaz, as we have seen, summoned the king of Assyria to his aid. This policy, dictated by human prudence, was fraught with vast peril. He an...
Immediately following this new call of the prophet, we have the account of his encounter with Ahaz. Rezin of Syria and Pekah of Israel had entered into a confederacy against Judah, and a great fear po...
And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the clefts of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all (s) bushes. (s) Signifying that no place will be free from t...
After the Lord had given the unspeakably blessed promise, concerning the coming of Christ, that his people in those degenerate times might have comfort, he proceeds to his solemn threatenings: and mos...
19._And they shall come. _He follows out the same metaphor; for bees commonly seek nests for themselves in caverns, or valleys and bushes, and such like places; as if he had said that there would not...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9:1-7. But this requires further development; and it is given in a remarkable manner in the next prophecy, comprised in Chapter s 7, 8, 9 to the end...
AND THEY SHALL COME,.... The Egyptian and Assyrian armies, when the Lord calls for them in his providence, and his time is come to make use of them as a scourge to his people: AND SHALL REST ALL OF T...
And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes. Ver. 19. _And they shall come, and shall rest all of...
_In that day_ Known to God, and appointed by him for the execution of these judgments; _the Lord shall hiss for the fly_ The _flies_, rather. Thus he calls these enemies, to signify either their great...
And they shall come and shall rest, all of them, in the desolate valleys, rather, in the valleys of the declivities, AND IN THE HOLES OF THE ROCKS, in the clefts of the mountains, AND UPON ALL THORNS...
THE SON OF THE VIRGIN PROMISED...
BUSHES: Or, commendable trees...
17-25 Let those who will not believe the promises of God, expect to hear the alarms of his threatenings; for who can resist or escape his judgments? The Lord shall sweep all away; and whomsoever he e...
THEY; the flies, and especially the bees. SHALL REST ALL OF THEM; they shall have an easy victory; few or none of them shall be slain in the attempt. THE DESOLATE VALLEYS; either, 1. Such as were and...
Isaiah 7:19 come H935 (H8804) rest H5117 (H8804) desolate H1327 valleys H5158 clefts H5357 rocks H5553 thorns...
CONTENTS: Evil confederacy of Rezin and Jekah. The sign of the Virgin's Son. Prediction of impending invasion of Judah. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Ahaz, Rezin, Pekah, Isaiah, Shear-jashub. CONCLUSION:...
Isaiah 7:1. _In the days of Ahaz,_ the second or the third year of his reign. Chapter s 5. and 6. are therefore out of place. Isaiah 7:6. _Let us go up against Judah and set a king in the midst of it,...
_The Lord shall bring upon thee. .. even the king of Assyria_ THE PROPHECY FULFILLED The calling in of Assur laid the foundation for the overthrow of the kingdom of Judah not less than for that of th...
A SENTENCE OF DOOM Isaiah 7:17. _The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, &c._ I. GOD IS SOVEREIGN IN THE WHOLE EARTH. He is the great controller of all nations. All governments are but i...
ISAIAH’S INTERVIEW WITH AHAZ Isaiah 7:3. _Then said the Lord unto Isaiah, &c._ In this interview of Isaiah with Ahaz we have an instance— I. OF GOD’S EFFORTS TO TURN MEN FROM RUINOUS COURSES. God is...
SECTION IV. PROPHECIES CONNECTED WITH THE SYRO-ISRAELITE WAR (Isaiah 7-10:4). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 7:1 THE PROPHECY GIVEN TO AHAZ
Now Uzziah is dead and his grandson Ahaz is reigning. It came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, the king of Judah, that Rezin was the king of Syria, and Pekah was the...
2 Chronicles 33:11; Isaiah 2:19; Isaiah 2:21; Jeremiah 16:16; Mica