Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Isaiah 20:2
the same. that.
by. by the hand of.
Isaiah. See note on Isaiah 13:1.
naked. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of the Whole), for being scantily clad.
the same. that.
by. by the hand of.
Isaiah. See note on Isaiah 13:1.
naked. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of the Whole), for being scantily clad.
Verse Isaiah 20:2. _WALKING NAKED AND BAREFOOT._] It is not probable that the prophet walked uncovered and barefoot for three years; his appearing in that manner was a sign that within three years th...
BY ISAIAH - Margin, ‘By the hand of Isaiah.’ So the Hebrew. That is, by the instrumentality of Isaiah. He sent him to make known the fate of the Egyptians, and the folly of trusting in them on this oc...
CHAPTER 20 The Near-Punishment of Egypt by Assyria 1. _Isaiah walks naked and barefooted (Isaiah 20:1)_ 2. _The meaning of his action (Isaiah 20:3)_ 3. _Egypt punished by Assyria (Isaiah 20:4) _ A st...
ISAIAH 20. THE SIGN OF EGYPT'S OVERTHROW. The year in which the Assyrian Tartan, or commander-in-chief, came to Ashdod was 711. This city had been in negotiation with Egypt against Assyria, and so too...
This verse is an explanatory parenthesis. The command here mentioned must have been given three years before the oracle of Isaiah 20:3 ff.; hence the expression "at that time" must be understood in a...
A narrative introduction....
SPAKE THE LORD BY ISAIAH, &C.— Or, _To Isaiah,_ &c. By _sackcloth_ is meant the hairy garment usually worn by prophets. By _naked_ is meant, no more than that the prophet went without his upper garmen...
CHAPTER TWENTY 4. EGYPT AND ETHIOPIA TEXT: Isaiah 20:1-6 1 In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it; 2 at that...
At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. SPA...
EGYPT'S CAPTIVITY SYMBOLISED This chapter is assigned in the title to the time when Sargon besieged Ashdod (711 b.c.). The Philistine city was at that time the centre of revolt. Sargon interposed and...
SACKCLOTH] such as prophets sometimes wore (2 Kings 1:8; Zechariah 13:4). NAKED, etc.] i.e. in the guise of a captive. Not only by word, but by action calculated to arrest attention, Isaiah strove to...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 20 ISAIAH HIMSELF WILL BE A SIGN TO EGYPT AND CUSH V1 Sargon, *empe...
Instead of words, God sometimes told his servants to use actions (see Jeremiah chapter 13). This is the only occasion when Isaiah used actions to give God’s message....
בָּ † עֵ֣ת הַ הִ֗יא דִּבֶּ֣ר יְהוָה֮...
CHAPTER XI DRIFTING TO EGYPT 720-705 13. B.C. Isaiah 20:1; Isaiah 21:1; Isaiah 38:1; Isaiah 39:1 FROM 720, when chapter 11 m
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...
CHAPTER XVII ISAIAH TO THE FOREIGN NATIONS 736-702 B.C. Isaiah 14:24; Isaiah 15:1; Isaiah 16:1; Isaiah 17:1;...
Yet the prophet sees hope even for Egypt. He describes the process. The result of the judgment will be fear, and in the case of a part of Egypt at least this will issue in submission to Jehovah. Where...
At the same time spoke the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the (d) sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. (d...
_Sackcloth. The prophets lived in poverty, Zacharias xiii. 4. Their persons were prophetic. It is not agreed whether Isaias went quite naked, or only without his upper garment. The former supposition...
It is probable that this event of Tartar's taking Ashdod, formed an epoch in history, so remarkable, that the year needed not to be recorded. And no doubt that the prophet's going about bare-foot, and...
2._Go and loose the sackcloth from thy loins. _In order to confirm this prophecy by the use of a symbol, the Lord commanded Isaiah to walk naked. If Isaiah had done this of his own accord, he would ha...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23. In Chapter s 19 and 20 Egypt shall be smitten in that day; but Jehovah will heal it. Egypt, Assyria, and Israel shall together be blessed of Je...
AT THE SAME TIME SPAKE THE LORD BY ISAIAH THE SON OF AMOZ,.... Or, "by the hand of Isaiah", by his means; and it was to him likewise, as the following words show; and so the Septuagint version renders...
At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. Ver. 2...
_Go loose the sackcloth from off thy loins_ By the sackcloth is meant either the hairy garment usually worn by the prophets, or a mournful habit, such as was commonly made of sackcloth which he wore i...
at the same time spake the Lord by Isaiah, the son of Amoz, in the year when the siege of Ashdod began, SAYING, GO AND LOOSE THE SACKCLOTH, the loose outer garment of coarse cloth which Isaiah wore, F...
THE SYMBOL OF EGYPT'S AND ETHIOPIA'S FALL....
BY ISAIAH: _ Heb._ by the hand of Isaiah...
LOOSE THE SACKCLOTH; ungird it and put it off; the antecedent put for the consequent, which is very usual, as hath been often noted. God would sometimes have his prophets to add to their word a visibl...
Isaiah 20:2 time H6256 LORD H3068 spoke H1696 (H8765) by H3027 Isaiah H3470 son H1121 Amoz H531 saying...
‘In the year that the Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it, at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go and lo...
CHAPTER 20 THE CAPTIVITY OF EGYPT AND CUSH. In around 713 BC, continually encouraged by Egypt under her Cushite rulers, the cities of Philistia rebelled against Assyria and sought to embroil Judah, Ed...
CONTENTS: Prophecy of the wasting of Egypt and Ethiopia by Assyria. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah, Tartan, Sargon. CONCLUSION: Those who make the creature their expectation and glory and so put it in the...
Isaiah 20:1. _Tartan_ is mentioned as the general-in-chief to Sennacherib, when he summoned Jerusalem. 2 Kings 18:17. _Sargon_ is supposed to be one of Sennacherib's names; for kings assumed new names...
_Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins_ ISAIAH STRIPPED AND BAREFOOTED Owing to the great importance which is attributed to clothing from the standpoint of Oriental culture and manners, anyo...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 20:2 NAKED AND BAREFOOT. Like a prisoner of war (see 2 Chronicles 28:14). The prophets at times acted out their messages with dramatic behavi
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 20:1 A PROPHECY AGAINST EGYPT AND ETHIOPIA. The Assyrian inscriptions enable us to date this prophecy with a near approach to exactness. Ashdod was besieged by an Assyrian army twic...
Now in chapter 20, Isaiah predicts that Assyria is going to waste both Egypt and Ethiopia. In the year that Tartan (Isaiah 20:1) Which is the title which means the commander in chief. Tartan, the co...
1 Samuel 19:24; 2 Kings 1:8; 2 Samuel 6:20; Acts 19:16; Exodus 3:5;...
Sackcloth — Which he wore in token of his grief for the calamities that were already come upon Israel, and were coming upon Judah. Naked — Not wholly naked, but without his upper garment, as slaves an...