Isaiah 19:1
BURDEN. The fourth of the seven burdens. RIDETH. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._... [ Continue Reading ]
BURDEN. The fourth of the seven burdens. RIDETH. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._... [ Continue Reading ]
SET THE EGYPTIANS, &C. Referring to the anarchy consequent on the defeat of Egypt by Sargon (688 B.C.)... [ Continue Reading ]
SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9. IDOLS. See note on Isaiah 2:8. CHARMERS. Hebrew. _ittim =_ mutterers. Occurs only here. FAMILIAR SPIRITS. See note on Leviticus 19:31. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 20:6; Leviticus 20:27; Deuteronomy 18:11, &c.) App-92.... [ Continue Reading ]
CRUEL LORD. Sing, adjective with plural noun. the lord of the nations, as the kings of Assyria called themselves.... [ Continue Reading ]
FAIL. be dried up. Hebrew. _nashath._ Occurs only here in "former" portion, and only in Isaiah 41:17 in the "latter" portion. Elsewhere only in Jeremiah 51:30. App-79. THE RIVER: i.e. the Nile.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY SHALL TURN, &C.. the arms of the river shall stink. BROOKS. canals of _Matzor_: i.e. Egypt. See note on Isaiah 7:18. EMPTIED. shallow.... [ Continue Reading ]
PAPER REEDS. meadows. Occurs only here. WITHER. be dried up. and be no more: or, and disappear.... [ Continue Reading ]
MOURN. See note on Isaiah 3:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
WEAVE. Occurs in the "former" portion only here, and in Isaiah 38:12. and in the "latter" portion only in Isaiah 59:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
PURPOSES: or, foundations. Compare Psalms 11:3. MAKE SLUICES. FISH: or, work for wages shall be grieved in soul. FISH. souls Hebrew. _nephesh,_ App-13. margin, "living things".... [ Continue Reading ]
ZOAN. See note on Isaiah 30:4. FOOLS. Hebrew. _aval_. See note on Proverbs 1:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
STAGGERETH. goeth astray, as in preceding clause.... [ Continue Reading ]
RUSH. See note on Isaiah 9:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THAT DAY: i.e. the day when this burden should be fulfilled (not "the day of the Lord "). Note the six steps, verses: Isaiah 19:16; Isaiah 19:18; Isaiah 19:19, Isa 16:21, Isa 16:23, Isa 16:24. THE HAND. Put for the judgments indicated by the act.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LAND OF JUDAH. The Assyrian armies came through Judah.... [ Continue Reading ]
FIVE CITIES. These were probably Heliopolis, Leontopolis, Daphne, Migdol, and Memphis. THE LANGUAGE OF CANAAN: i.e. the Hebrew language, by the multitude of Jews that went thither. DESTRUCTION. The primitive reading was doubtless _hazedek_. "righteousness", which the Septuagint simply transliterate... [ Continue Reading ]
AN ALTAR. See App-81. A PILLAR. Probably. boundary pillar. Hebrew. _nazab_. A pillar or monument. Not for worship. AT. close to.... [ Continue Reading ]
SIGN. See note on Isaiah 7:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
DO SACRIFICE. "The third Ptolemy, when he had occupied all Syria by force, did not sacrifice thankofferings to the gods in Egypt, but came to Jerusalem and made votive offerings" (Josephus, c. _Apion_, Isaiah 11:5).... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THAT DAY: i.e. the glorious future, the day of the LORD. Not the same as Isaiah 19:11. highway. See note on Isaiah 7:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
LAND: or, earth.... [ Continue Reading ]