That they might go, and fall backward... — The words are an echo of those in Isaiah 8:14. The preaching which might have led to “rest and refreshing” would become to those who scorned it a “stumbling stone” on which they would fall, a “net” in which they, who boasted of their freedom, would be entangled.
BUT THE WORD OF THE LORD WAS UNTO THEM - Or, rather, but the word of Yahweh “shall be” unto them. This refers to the mode in which God said He would instruct them in a foreign land. They had complaine...
3. THE SIX WOES OF THE PROPHET, JUDGMENT RUINS AND RESTORATION GLORIES TO COME (28-35) CHAPTER 28 The First Woe and the Message of Assurance 1. _Ephraim addressed (Isaiah 28:1)_ 2. _Jerusalem equall...
JERUSALEM ALSO IS THREATENED WITH DESTRUCTION. But Jerusalem like Ephraim reels with intoxication, the priests and prophets especially. The prophet is not steady in his vision, the priest when pronoun...
WAS. became. Giving back to the scoffers their own words (from Isaiah 28:10) in the form of. threatening. MIGHT. may. FALL BACKWARD, &C. Note the Figure of speech _Synonymia_, by which the similar w...
The occasion of this remarkable encounter was probably a feast held to celebrate the renunciation of allegiance to Assyria. Isaiah has surprised the drunkards over their cups and administered some suc...
_But the word of the Lord was_ Render: AND ( SO) THE WORD OF JEHOVAH SHALL BE all that they had scoffingly said about Isaiah's message (Isaiah 28:10), a monotonous, intolerable, yet unavoidable, succe...
FOR WITH STAMMERING LIPS, &C.— Instead of _refreshing,_ in Isaiah 28:12 we may read, _happy place;_ and the 13th may be rendered, _But the word of the Lord shall be unto them,—that they may go,_ &c. T...
V. EMANCIPATION NOT FROM EGYPT Chapter S 28 - 35 A. FOUNDATION THAT IS FIRM, Chapter S 28-29 1. STUPIDITY TEXT: Isaiah 28:1-13 1 Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fa...
In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people, -The prophet now turns to Judah, a gracious promise to the remnant ("residue...
RV 'Therefore shall the word of the Lord be unto them,' etc. The teaching they refused will prove a burden and a stumbling block....
This chapter must be assigned (Isaiah 28:1) to a date prior to the capture of Samaria by the Assyrians (722 b.c.) and fall of the northern kingdom. 1-6. Samaria's luxury and self-indulgence pave the...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 28 The next section of the Book of Isaiah is from Chapter 28 to Chapter 33. These Cha...
The leaders have not been responsible. They have disappointed their nation. And the result will be that they hear even more strange sounds. An enemy that speaks a strange language will carry off many...
וְ הָיָ֨ה לָהֶ֜ם דְּבַר ־יְהוָ֗ה צַ֣ו לָ
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...
THE DECAY OF AN INTEMPERATE PEOPLE Isaiah 28:1-13 A new series of prophecies begins here and extends to Isaiah 32:20. Samaria is described as a faded crown or garland on the nation's head because it...
Here begins the third and last circle of the first division of the book. It consists of a series of prophecies concerning the chosen people and the world. In this chapter we have a graphic revelation...
But the word of the (o) LORD was to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be...
CHAPTER XXVIII. _ Taken. God will make his prophets speak, notwithstanding your repugnance; or he will reduce you to the necessity of learning an unknown language. (Calmet)_...
These are very awful verses, and enough to make the ears of everyone that heareth them to tingle. And what must the end be of scorners, mockers of God's word, and despisers of his threatenings?...
13._The word of the Lord shall therefore be to them. _Although the Prophet repeats the same words, yet the meaning is somewhat different; for, having formerly spoken of voluntary stupidity, he now thr...
Chapter 28 sets before us the first elements of these final scenes in the history of this wonderful people. The scourge comes from the north. Ephraim is invaded as by an overflowing torrent, by a temp...
BUT THE WORD OF THE LORD WAS UNTO THEM PRECEPT UPON PRECEPT,.... Was despised and derided by them; they took the prophet's words out of his mouth, and in a scoffing manner repeated them; which, in the...
But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be br...
_But the word of the Lord was unto them_, &c. The sense of the passage thus rendered, may be, that they spake of God's word with scorn and contempt, repeating the prophet's words, (which are as peculi...
But the Word of the Lord was unto them, that is, it shall now truly be, PRECEPT UPON PRECEPT, PRECEPT UPON PRECEPT; LINE UPON LINE, LINE UPON LINE; HERE A LITTLE AND THERE A LITTLE, namely, in stammer...
CONCERNING SAMARIA AND JERUSALEM. Chapter s 28 to 33 in the Book of Isaiah contain a cycle of prophecies and proclamations concerning the relation of Judah to Assyria in the time of King Hezekiah. Aha...
5-15 The prophet next turns to Judah, whom he calls the residue of his people. Happy are those alone, who glory in the Lord of hosts himself. Hence his people get wisdom and strength for every servic...
The sense of the words thus rendered may be this, They spake of God's word with scorn and contempt, repeating the prophet's words in a scoffing manner, and with a stammering and ridiculous tone, sayin...
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HIS OPPONENT MOCK ISAIAH'S TEACHING (ISAIAH 28:9). Isaiah's opponents mock him because all that he does is proclaim a repetitive message. In their view that is to treat them like children. But his rep...
CONTENTS: Woe of Ephriam due to drunkenness. Prediction of Assyrian captivity of Ephriam. Ephriam's fate a warning to Judah. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The glorious beauty and the plenty of the lan...
Isaiah 28:1. _The crown of pride._ Sebaste, the ancient Samaria, is situated on a long mount of an oval figure, having first a fruitful valley, and then a circle of hills running round about it. _Maun...
_Whom shall He teach knowledge?_ THE SCOFFING DRUNKARDS They scoff at the prophet, that intolerable moralist. They are full-grown and free; he need not teach them knowledge Isaiah 11:9), and explain...
SECTION VII. RENEWED DENUNCIATIONS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH (CH. 28-31.) EXPOSITION ISAIAH 28:1 A WARNING TO SAMARIA. The prophet has now east his eagle glance
Chapter 28. Now the prophet turns to the local present issues. He is now... he's gone off down the road to the end of things. Now he comes back and he begins to speak of the Northern Kingdom, the majo...
1 Peter 2:7; 1 Peter 2:8; 2 Corinthians 2:16; 2 Peter 3:16; Hosea 6:5;...
Here a little — As this method has been used and was altogether necessary for them; so it still is, and for the future shall be. As they were children in understanding, they shall still continue to be...