Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Isaiah 13:18
Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces. — These, as in Isaiah 22:6; Jeremiah 1:9, were the characteristic weapons of the Medo-Persian armies.
Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces. — These, as in Isaiah 22:6; Jeremiah 1:9, were the characteristic weapons of the Medo-Persian armies.
Verse Isaiah 13:18. Their _BOWS ALSO SHALL DASH_ - "Their bows shall dash"] Both Herodotus, i. 61, and Xenophon, Anab. iii., mention, that the Persians used large bows τοξαμεγαλα: and the latter says...
THEIR BOWS ALSO - Bows and arrows were the usual weapons of the ancients in war; and the Persians were particularly skilled in their use. According to Xenophon, Cyrus came to Babylon with a great numb...
2. THE JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS AND THE FUTURE DAY OF JEHOVAH (13-27) CHAPTER 13 The Burden of Babylon 1. _Jehovah's call to the judgment of Babylon (Isaiah 13:1)_ 2. _The day of Jehovah: When Babylo...
ISAIAH 13:1 TO ISAIAH 14:23. THE UTTER RUIN OF BABYLON AND TRIUMPHAL ODE OVER HER MONARCH'S DEATH. Historical conditions are here presupposed entirely different from those of Isaiah's time. The subjec...
THEIR. Some codices, with two early printed editions, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and their". CHILDREN. sons....
The description of the character of the invaders, perhaps even the mention of their name, is of the nature of a climax to the terrors of the picture....
BEHOLD, I WILL STIR UP THE MEDES— Here follows the second part of this prophesy; in which, what the prophet had foretold principally in figure, is here plainly related; and is easily divided, as it co...
c. PROLONGATION OF JUDGMENT TEXT: Isaiah 13:17-22 17 Behold I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it, 18 And their bows sh...
Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children. (Their) bows-in the use of which the Persians were part...
13:18 children. (e-28) Lit. 'sons.'...
1. BURDEN] The corresponding verb means 'to lift up' (_a_) a load, (_b_) the voice (cp. Isaiah 3:7; Isaiah 42:2; Isaiah 42:11), used of Balaam lifting up his voice in oracular utterance ...
BOWS] The Medes were noted archers (Jeremiah 51:11)....
‘Young men’ often means ‘men old enough to fight as soldiers’. That is also why ‘bows and arrows’ appear in this verse. • Attackers usually pitied babies and children. But even they would not escape...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 13 The next major division of the Book of Isaiah is Chapter s 13 to...
וּ קְשָׁתֹ֖ות נְעָרִ֣ים תְּרַטַּ֑שְׁנָה וּ פְרִי...
BOOK 5 PROPHECIES NOT RELATING TO ISAIAH'S TIME In the first thirty-nine Chapter s of the Book of Isaiah-the half which refers to the prophet's own career and the politics contemporary with that - we...
We now commence the second circle of the first division of our book, in which are contained Isaiah's prophecies concerning the nations and the world. The first describes the doom of Babylon. Whereas t...
In these verses we have a continuation of the subject concerning the destruction of Babylon, with the effects to be wrought by it on all the people. And, what is very observable, so hardened against a...
18._And with bows they shall dash in pieces the children. _(207) Some render it, _they shall cut_. They think that the language is exaggerated, as if they made use of the children of the Babylonians i...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 AND 14. With chapter 12 one division of the whole book closes. That which commences with chapter 13 continues to the end of chapter 27, which describes th...
[THEIR] BOWS ALSO SHALL DASH THEIR YOUNG MEN TO PIECES,.... That is, the bows of the Medes should dash in pieces the young men of the Babylonians. The meaning is, either that they should put them into...
Isaiah 13:18 [Their] bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children. Ver. 18. _Their bows also shall dash the y...
_Behold_, &c. Here follows the second part of this prophecy, in which the calamity which the prophet had foretold, principally in figure, is plainly related and set forth in its causes and consequence...
Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces, a very vivid description of the effect which would attend the wholesale slaughter; AND THEY SHALL HAVE NO PITY ON THE FRUIT OF THE WOMB, not sparing...
AGAINST BABYLON IN PARTICULAR...
6-18 We have here the terrible desolation of Babylon by the Medes and Persians. Those who in the day of their peace were proud, and haughty, and terrible, are quite dispirited when trouble comes. The...
THEIR BOWS; under which are comprehended their arrows, and possibly other weapons of war; for so generally sometimes is the bow used in Scripture, as 2 SAMUEL 1:18 PSALMS 78:9 ISAIAH 41:2. _Shall dash...
Isaiah 13:18 bows H7198 dash H7376 men H5288 pieces H7376 (H8762) pity H7355 (H8762) fruit H6529 womb...
A VIVID PICTURE OF BABYLON'S FUTURE AND ITS END (ISAIAH 13:17). Having depicted the destruction of Babylon in apocalyptic terms Isaiah brings it down to earth. He partly does it in terms of the Medes....
CONTENTS: Prophecy concerning last days, when punishment will be visited upon the nations, and Israel shall pass through the Great Tribulation. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: Men have their da...
In the thirteen Chapter s which follow, the prophet, like a watchman, raises his voice, and denounces woes against all the surrounding nations, and finally against his own country. Isaiah 13:1. _The b...
SPARE THE CHILDREN (_Sunday-School Anniversary Sermon_.) Isaiah 13:18. _Their eye shall not spare children_. This declaration is made concerning the Medes, by whom the power of Babylon was destined t...
EXPOSITION THE BURDEN OF BABYLON. The series of prophecies which commences with this chapter and continues to the close of Isaiah 23:1; is connected together by the word _massa_, burden. It has been a...
Now as we move into chapter 13 and he speaks of the burden of Babylon which Isaiah saw, you remember that we mentioned when we started the prophecy of Isaiah that in many of the prophecies, there was...
2 Chronicles 36:17; 2 Kings 8:12; Ezekiel 9:10; Ezekiel 9:5; Ezekiel
Bows — Under which are comprehended, other weapons of war. Dash — Or, shalt pierce the young men through, as the Chaldee, renders it....