Three years for a sign.— A three years' sign. The meaning seems to be, not that Isaiah walked three years naked and barefooted, but that he walked naked and barefoot for a sign of what should happen three years afterwards.
LIKE AS - That is, as Isaiah has gone stripped of his special garment as a prophet, so shall the Egyptians and Ethiopians be stripped of all that they value, and be carried captive into Assyria.’ HATH...
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...
SIGN AND WONDER. Reference to Pentateuch, (see note on Isaiah 7:11 with Isaiah 8:18), and App-92....
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...
And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia; LIKE AS MY SERVANT ISAIAH HATH WALKED NAKED AND BAREFOOT...
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...
Cush was a country that today forms part of southern Egypt and northern Sudan....
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...
וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוָ֔ה כַּ אֲשֶׁ֥ר הָלַ֛ךְ עַבְד
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
CHAPTER XVII ISAIAH TO THE FOREIGN NATIONS 736-702 B.C. Isaiah 14:24; Isaiah 15:1; Isaiah 16:1; Isaiah 17:1;...
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...
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...
_Years. Isaias went so long, or perhaps only three days undressed, Numbers xiv. 34., and Ezechiel iv. 5. Egypt and the Arabian Ethiopia were to be abandoned to the Assyrians, in or during three years....
It was gracious in the Lord, to explain the meaning of this typical representation, that no misapplication might be made of it. And while the lesson tended to humble both nations, Egypt and Ethiopia,...
3._Three years. _Why for such a period? Because that was the time granted to the Egyptians and Ethiopians, during which the Lord gave them a truce for repentance, and at the same time wished to make t...
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...
AND THE LORD SAID,.... Here follows the explanation of the sign, and the accommodation of it to the thing signified by it: LIKE AS MY SERVANT ISAIAH HATH WALKED NAKED AND BAREFOOT; not wholly naked,...
And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years [for] a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia; Ver. 3. _Like as my servant Isaiah._] Servants are either...
_And the Lord_ Who here explains and applies the sign, _said, Like as my servant hath walked naked, &c., three years_ Not constantly, but when he went abroad among the people, to whom this was appoint...
And the Lord said, Like as My servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years, to bring home with great emphasis the lesson which the Lord wished to convey, FOR A SIGN AND WONDER UPON EGYPT...
THE SYMBOL OF EGYPT'S AND ETHIOPIA'S FALL....
WALKED NAKED AND BAREFOOT THREE YEARS; not constantly, but when he went abroad among the people, to whom this was appointed for a sign. Some think it was only three days, a day being usually put for a...
Isaiah 20:3 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) servant H5650 Isaiah H3470 walked H1980 (H8804) naked H6174 barefoot...
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...
‘And Yahweh said, “Just as my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years, for a sign and a wonder on Egypt and on Cush, so will the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, a...
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...
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...
Ezekiel 4:5; Ezekiel 4:6; Isaiah 18:1; Isaiah 8:18; Numbers 14:34;...
Three years — Not constantly, but when he went abroad among the people, to whom this was appointed for a sign. A sign — When this judgment should come, namely, three years after this prophecy....