The people in Cush have sent *messengers to invite Judah to join in a force against Assyria. But Isaiah’s message told them to return home. Military unions will never be sufficient. God’s people should trust the *Lord alone for success.
‘Smooth skins’ refers to the fact that the men of Cush shaved their faces. Many other people from the east did not shave (see Genesis 41:14).
Verse Isaiah 18:2. _IN VESSELS OF BULRUSHES_ - "In vessels of papyrus"] This circumstance agrees perfectly well with Egypt. It is well known that the Egyptians commonly used on the Nile a light sort o...
THAT SENDETH AMBASSADORS - That is, “accustomed” to send messengers. What was the design of their thus sending ambassadors does not appear. The prophet simply intimates the fact; a fact by which they...
CHAPTER 18 When Israel Will be Brought Back 1. _The land beyond the rivers of Ethiopia (Isaiah 18:1)_ 2. _The ambassadors sent (Isaiah 18:2)_ 3. _The trumpet blown and Jehovah's Message (Isaiah 18:3)...
ISAIAH 18. ISAIAH DISCOURAGES THE SCHEMES OF ETHIOPIA. This chapter is probably connected with the policy of the Egyptian alliance so frequently denounced by Isaiah in 29- 31. Here the negotiations se...
THE SEA. the Nile. So called by the inhabitants of the Sudan to-day. BULRUSHES. reeds. Not the papyrus, but its companion reed, the _ambach,_ which reaches. height of fifteen feet and has yellow flow...
The _ambassadors_are those who have arrived in Jerusalem. They had descended the Nile (here called _the sea_, as in ch. Isaiah 19:5; Nahum 3:8) in _vessels of bulrushes_(R.V. PAPYRUS). These light ski...
The charge to the Ethiopian envoys, along with a poetic description of the land and people. The tendency of the ancient world to idealise the Ethiopians is familiar to students of classical literature...
C. INCESSANT EGYPTIANS - Chapter S 18-20 CHAPTER EIGHTEEN 1. ETHIOPIA TEXT: Isaiah 18:1-7 1 Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia; 2 that sendeth ambassado...
That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hithert...
18:2 ravaged, (g-24) Or 'peeled,' 'plucked.' terrible (h-28) Or 'marvellous.' waiting (i-39) Or 'of measure, measure,' i.e. measured by the judgments of God....
ETHIOPIA REASSURED Isaiah here addresses the Ethiopians, who, agitated at the advance of the Assyrians west-ward, were sending ambassadors to other states to organise resistance. He foretells the sudd...
VESSELS OF BULRUSHES] i.e. made of papyrus, such as are still in use on the Nile. Omit _saying_ and understand the exhortation Go ye, etc., as addressed by the prophet to the Ethiopian ambassadors, bi...
הַ שֹּׁלֵ֨חַ בַּ † יָּ֜ם צִירִ֗ים וּ...
CHAPTER XVII ISAIAH TO THE FOREIGN NATIONS 736-702 B.C. Isaiah 14:24; Isaiah 15:1; Isaiah 16:1; Isaiah 17:1;...
This is the second of the prophet's soliloquies, and is of the nature of a proclamation to certain ambassadors who are charged to return to their people and to wait for Jehovah. This charge is deliver...
That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of (b) bulrushes upon the waters, [saying], (c) Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and stripped, to a (d) people terrible from their be...
Ambassadors. Hebrew, "images," (Bochart) in honour of Adonis; (St. Cyril) or rather Ezechias, or Tharaca send to demand troops. (Calmet) --- Bulrushes. Literally, "paper." (Haydock) --- Formed of rush...
Here is the threat of this enemy. Taking advantage of Israel's humblings, he cometh on when Israel is cast down. Let the Reader spiritualize the passage to himself and his own circumstances, and he wi...
2._Sending ambassadors by the sea. _This relates strictly to the state of those times. It would appear that this nation solicited the Egyptians or Syrians to harass the Jews, or that the Assyrians emp...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 15, 16, 17, AND 18. In Chapter s 15 and 16 Moab is judged. They are warned that the throne of David shall be established, and the oppressor consumed out of th...
THAT SENDETH AMBASSADORS BY THE SEA,.... The Red Sea, which washed the coasts of Egypt and Ethiopia, and which were united into one kingdom under Sabacus, or So the Ethiopian, called king of Egypt, 2...
That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, [saying], Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hither...
_That sendeth ambassadors by sea_ That is accustomed to send, or at this time is sending, ambassadors to strengthen themselves with leagues and alliances, or to encourage their confederates; _in vesse...
that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, traversing the waters of that far country, EVEN IN VESSELS OF BULRUSHES UPON THE WATERS, light and fleet boats made of the papyrus-reed, SAYING, GO, YE SWIFT MESSE...
PROPHECY AGAINST ETHIOPIA....
SCATTERED AND PEELED: Or, outspread and polished A NATION METED OUT AND TRODDEN DOWN: Or, a nation that meteth out, and treadeth down. _Heb._ a nation of line line, and treading under foot WHOSE L...
THAT SENDETH AMBASSADORS; that at this time are sending ambassadors, after their manner, to strengthen themselves with leagues and alliances, whereby they think to prevent those judgments and calamiti...
Isaiah 18:2 sends H7971 (H8802) ambassadors H6735 sea H3220 vessels H3627 reed H1573 on H6440 waters H4325 Go...
ANALYSIS OF ISAIAH 18:1. a Ah, the land of the whirring of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Cush, which sends messengers by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters. “Go you swift messen...
THAT SENDETH AMBASSADORS The local reference is evidently to an embassy from Egypt, resulting in the alliance denounced in Isaiah 30, 31, (Jeremiah 37:7)....
CONTENTS: Woe of the land beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, in the day of Israel's regathering. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Though God's covenant people are trampled on as a nation, scattered and abus...
Isaiah 18:1. _Woe to the land shadowing with wings_ranges of inaccessible mountains called the mountains of the moon, and those to the east between the Nile and the Red sea. The Nile divided amidst th...
_Woe to the land shadowing with wings_ THE ETHIOPIANS The people here peculiarly described are the Ethiopians, and the prophet prophesies the effect on Ethiopia of the judgment concerning Assyria wh...
PAPER BOATS Vessels of papyrus. Isaiah 18:2. Who would have thought that paper boats were mentioned in the Bible? It is wonderful what you can find there if you hunt. Do you wonder how they made th...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 18:1 THE HOMAGE OF ETHIOPIA TO JEHOVAH. Amid the general excitement caused by the advance of Assyria, Ethiopia also is stirred, and stirred to its furthest limits. The king sends me...
Now in chapter 18, there are those that see the United States in chapter 18, but it is rather far-fetched and I am sorry that my mind can't stretch that far. I cannot see the United States in chapter...
2 Chronicles 12:2; 2 Chronicles 14:9; 2 Chronicles 16:8; Exodus 2:3;...
Sendeth — That at this time are sending ambassadors, to strengthen themselves with alliances. Bulrushes — Both the Egyptians and Ethiopians, used boats of rushes or reeds, which were more convenient f...