WOE. The third of the six woes. REBELLIOUS. stubborn, or backsliding. CHILDREN. sons. TAKE COUNSEL. carry out. purpose. cover with. covering: or, pour out. libation; and so, make an alliance. MY SPIRIT. Me. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9.... [ Continue Reading ]
WALK. are setting out. This prophecy had been given in the days of Hezekiah (617-588), and was then being fulfilled in Israel. strength of Pharaoh. Compare Isaiah 30:7, where it is shown to be. vain help. In verses: Isaiah 30:2; Isaiah 30:3, "strength" is literal. In Isaiah 30:7 it is. Figure. TRUS... [ Continue Reading ]
HIS: i.e. Pharaoh's. ZOAN. Now _Zan._ LEARN DOCTRINE. accept instruction. Hanes. Called Tahapanes (Jeremiah 2:16). Now _Tell Defenneh_, about seventy miles from Cairo, the capital of. minor district. Succeeding Memphis as the capital before Abraham's time. Known to the Greeks as Hiracleopolis Magn... [ Continue Reading ]
BURDEN. Refers to the lading of the animals of the ambassadors who were going down to Egypt with rich gifts to secure an alliance, and thus reversing the steps of their national deliverance. It is not. fresh "burden", "the beginning of which has been lost". THE SOUTH. _the Negeb,_ which must be pas... [ Continue Reading ]
HAVE. CRIED CONCERNING THIS. have. called (or named) her. THEIR STRENGTH, &C. Hebrew Egypt sitting still (and thus not giving the help that was being sought). Rahab. pride, or strength, is put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), for Egypt, the proud or strong one. Note the wrong but common... [ Continue Reading ]
A TABLE. a tablet. NOTE. inscribe. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 17:14; Exodus 24:4. THE TIME TO COME. the latter day.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHILDREN. sons. LAW: or, instruction contained in the law of Moses, See note on Isaiah 1:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
TRUST. confide. Hebrew. _b_. _t_ ah (App-69.) Not the same word as in verses: Isaiah 30:2; Isaiah 30:3. Same as in Isaiah 30:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS THE BREAKING OF THE POTTERS' VESSEL. The reference is to the manufacture of _homrah,_ by breaking up pottery to powder in order to make cement of it. Carried on in the valley of Hinnom. See note on Jeremiah 19:1; Jeremiah 19:2. FIRE FROM THE HEARTH. that which is kindled. PIT. cistern.... [ Continue Reading ]
CONFIDENCE. trust: i.e. trust [in Jehovah]. Hebrew. _batah_, as in Isaiah 30:12. App-69. STRENGTH. real power. Hebrew. _geburah._ Not the same word as in verses: Isaiah 30:2; Isaiah 30:3, but the same as in Isaiah 28:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
FLEE... HORSES... SHALL YE FLEE. Note the Figure of speech _Paronomasia_. Hebrew. _nanus_... _sus_... _t'nusun,_ for emphasis. SWIFT... SHALL THEY... BE SWIFT. Figure of speech _Paronomasia_. Hebrew. _kal... yikkallu,_ for emphasis; not. mere "play on words".... [ Continue Reading ]
ONE THOUSAND SHALL FLEE. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:8.) SHALL FLEE. The Figure of speech _Ellipsis_ is correctly supplied from the next clause. REBUKE. threat. YE FLEE. ye [all] flee. A BEACON. a pole, or mast. ENSIGN. flagstaff.... [ Continue Reading ]
BE GRACIOUS. show you favour, or grace. HAVE MERCY UPON YOU. show you compassion. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. BLESSED. O the happinesses [of all, &c.]. The first of three in Isaiah (Isaiah 32:20; Isaiah 56:2). WAIT. look for.... [ Continue Reading ]
THOUGH. Omit "though", and read it as. direct promise: "Jehovah will give you affliction [as] bread and adversity [as] water". LORD*. Jehovah (App-4). One of the 134 places where the Sopherim changed Jehovah of the primitive text for Adonai. Some codices, with three early printed editions, read "Je... [ Continue Reading ]
COVERING. Hebrew. _zapha_ (_zippoi_). Reference to Pentateuch. Occurs only here, Exodus 38:17; Exodus 38:19, and Numbers 16:38; Numbers 16:39. App-92. ORNAMENT. Hebrew. _'aphuddah_ (rendered ephod). Reference to Pentateuch. Occurs only here, Exodus 28:8, and Exodus 39:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
THY SEED. Another reading (Ben Naphtali) is "thy land". EARTH. ground, or soil.... [ Continue Reading ]
EAR. Old English. to plough: from Anglo-Saxon _erian:_ and this from the Latin _arare_: the Aryan root AR entering into many words with. cognate reference. ARt (ploughing being the oldest art); oAR (with which the water is ploughed); ARtos(Greek for bread); eARth; ARatrum (Latin,. plough); ARare (to... [ Continue Reading ]
STREAMS. Hebrew. _yiblei_ (from _yabal =_ to bring, or conduct along). Occurs only here in the "former" portion, and only in Isaiah 44:4, in the "latter" portion of Isaiah, where it is rendered "watercourses". App-79.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ THE NAME. See note on Psalms 20:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
BREATH. blast. Hebrew. _ruach_. See note on Isaiah 25:4. PEOPLE. peoples.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN. HOLY SOLEMNITY IS KEPT. Reference to Pentateuch. and the habitual keeping of the feasts there prescribed (Leviticus 23:2, &c). See App-92. HOLY. See note on Exodus 3:6. THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD. See notes on Isaiah 2:3, and Ezekiel 28:16. MIGHTY ONE. Rock. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronom... [ Continue Reading ]
EVERY PLACE WHERE THE GROUNDED STAFF, &C.. every stroke of the staff of doom, which, &c. TABRETS. drums. See note on 1 Samuel 10:5. Hebrew. _toph,_ forming the Figure of speech _Paronomasia_ with _Tophet_ in next verse, for emphasis. SHAKING. tumult.... [ Continue Reading ]
TOPHET. the place of burning. In the valley of Hinnom, the place where continual fires consumed the refuse of Jerusalem. Compare Revelation 19:20; Revelation 20:10. THE KING. Moloch. See note on 1 Kings 11:7. BREATH. Hebrew. _neshamah_ (App-16). See note on Isaiah 2:22.... [ Continue Reading ]