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Isaiah 28:24-26

The first parable is about the way that the farmer prepares the soil to receive seed. Once he has ploughed the field, he does not need to repeat the action.

• To plough the field may seem to be a painful way to act towards the soil. But the action achieves its purpose. It prepares the soil for the seed to grow and to produce a harvest.

• God acts in a similar way. After he has punished his people for their evil behaviour, he does not repeat the painful action. God is aiming to achieve his real purpose for his people’s lives.

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See also Isaiah 28:24-26 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    DOTH THE PLOWMAN ... - The question here asked implies that he does “not” plow all the day. The interrogative form is often the most emphatic mode of affirmation. ALL DAY - The sense is, does he do no...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE HUSBANDMAN ADAPTS HIS METHODS TO THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF EACH CASE. This parable may perhaps not have been spoken to the same audience as Isaiah 28:7, but there is no valid reason for denying it to I...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    PLOW ALL DAY: i.e. continually. ever keep ploughing? See the note on Isaiah 28:28. HE OPEN. he [for ever] open....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A parable derived from husbandry. The motive of its insertion in this place was probably the different treatment meted out to Samaria and to Jerusalem. The precise point of the analogy is somewhat unc...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _all day_ i.e. CONTINUALLY (R.V.), "uninterruptedly." The emphasis of the question lies on this word. _to sow_is an awkward addition and may be a gloss. If genuine the sense must be paraphrased "seei...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Ploughing is followed by sowing....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    GIVE YE EAR, &C.— We have here the fourth member of this section, in which this severe judgment of God denounced in the preceding verses, is defended by a parable taken from agriculture, wherein the p...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? DOTH THE PLOWMAN PLOW ALL DAY TO SOW? - emphatic: he is not always plowing; he also 'sows,' and that, too, in...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The implied answer is No; he doth not do these things continually....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    DOTH THE PLOWMAN PLOW ALL DAY...? — Better, _every day._ Ploughing represents naturally, as in Jeremiah 4:3, the preparatory discipline by which the spiritual soil is rendered fit for the sower’s work...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֲ כֹ֣ל הַ יֹּ֔ום יַחֲרֹ֥שׁ הַ חֹרֵ֖שׁ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Sow. The works of the husbandman vary, so will God's punishments be inflicted with measure, according to each one's deserts, ver. 27., and Wisdom vi. 7. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The chapter ends very graciously, in showing the Church, under the similitude of the husbandman, how the Lord takes care of his household. And as Jesus hath sweetly set forth the same blessed truths,...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    24._Doth the ploughman plough every day _(242) _to sow? _This passage is commonly explained as if the Lord reproached his people for ingratitude, because he had cultivated the field as a husbandman, a...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    DOTH THE PLOUGHMAN PLOUGH ALL DAY TO SOW?.... Or, "every day"; he ploughs in order to sow; by ploughing he prepares the ground for sowing, that is his end in ploughing; and he may plough a whole day t...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? Ver. 24. _Doth the plowman plow all day to sow?_] _a_ Or, Every day. Doth he not find him somewhat else to do bes...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Give ye ear_ Observe what I say, and do you judge if it be not reasonable. “We have here the last member of this section, in which this severe judgment of God, denounced in the preceding verses, is d...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? Does he continue the same process in endless repetition? DOTH HE OPEN AND BREAK THE CLODS OF HIS GROUND? by the process of harrowing. To keep on with the same wor...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE CHASTISEMENT OF THE LORD OF HOSTS...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    23-29 The husbandman applies to his calling with pains and prudence, in all the works of it according to their nature. Thus the Lord, who has given men this wisdom, is wonderful in counsel, and excel...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    DOTH THE PLOUGHMAN PLOUGH ALL DAY TO SOW? the ploughman doth not spend all his time in ploughing the ground, in order to the sowing it, or, as it follows, in opening it, and breaking its clods; but he...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 28:24 plowman H2790 (H8802) plowing H2790 (H8799) day H3117 sow H2232 (H8800) turning H6605 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PARABLE OF THE FARMER AND HIS CROPS (ISAIAH 28:23). The point behind this parable is that the wise farmer thinks carefully about what he is doing and does not get bogged down in one activity. He l...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The ploughman_ THE PARABLE OF THE PLOUGHMAN AND THE THRESHER 1. The general drift of the parable is obvious. The husbandman does not forever vex and wound the tender bosom of the earth with the kee...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 28:23 God’s dealings with his people, though “strange” (v. Isaiah 28:21), are wise. He can be trusted in everything....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE PARABLE OF THE HUSBANDMAN Isaiah 28:24. _Doth the plowman plow all day to sow?_ &c. [1117] [1117] In this parable the mystery of the Divine Providence is laid open, its secret disclosed. _All plo...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Hosea 10:11; Hosea 10:12; Jeremiah 4:3...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Doth — The plowman doth not spend all his time in plowing the ground; but he has several times for several works. And so God has his times and seasons for several works, and his providence is various...

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