CHAPTER II _Prophecy concerning the kingdom of the Messiah, and the_ _conversion of the Gentile world_, 1-5. _Great wickedness and idolatry of the unbelieving Jews_, 6-9. _Terrible consternation that will seize the wicked, who shall in_ _vain seek for rocks and mountains to hide them from the f... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 2:2. _IN THE LAST DAYS_ - "In the latter days"] "Wherever the latter times are mentioned in Scripture, the days of the Messiah are always meant," says _Kimchi_ on this place: and, in regard to this place, nothing can be more clear and certain. And _the_ _mountain of the Lord's house_,... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 2:3. _TO THE HOUSE_] The conjunction ו _vau_ is added by nineteen of _Kennicott's_, thirteen of _De Rossi's_ MSS., one of my own, and two editions, the _Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, Arabic_, and some copies of the _Targum_; AND _to the house_. It makes the sentence more emphatic. _HE W... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 2:4. _NEITHER SHALL THEY LEARN WAR ANY MORE._] If wars are necessary, how deep must that _fall_ be that renders them so! But what a reproach to humanity is the _trade of war_! Men are regularly instructed in it, as in any of the necessary arts. "How to dislodge most souls from their fr... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 2:6. _THEY BE REPLENISHED_ - "And they multiply"] Seven MSS. and one edition, for ישפיקו _yaspiku_, read ישפיחו _yaspichu_, "and have joined themselves to the children of strangers;" that is, in marriage or worship. - Dr. JUBB. So _Vulg., adhaeserunt_. Compare Isaiah 14:1. But the very... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 2:7. _THEIR LAND IS ALSO FULL OF HORSES_ - "And his land is filled with horses"] This was in direct contradiction to God's command in the law: "But he (the king) shall not multiply horses to himself; nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses; ne... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 2:8. _THEIR LAND ALSO IS FULL OF IDOLS_ - "And his land is filled with idols"] Uzziah and Fotham are both said, 2 Kings 15:3; 2 Kings 15:34-12, "to have done that which was right in the sight of the Lord;" that is, to have adhered to and maintained the legal worship of God, in oppositi... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 2:9. _BOWETH DOWN _- "Shall be bowed down"] This has reference to the preceding verse. They bowed themselves down to their idols, therefore shall they be bowed down and brought low under the avenging hand of God. _THEREFORE FORGIVE THEM NOT._] "And thou wilt not forgive them." - L.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 2:10. "When he ariseth to strike the earth with terror."] On the authority of the _Septuagint_, confirmed by the _Arabic_ and an ancient MS., I have added here to the text a line, which in the 19th and 21st verses Isaiah 2:19; Isaiah 2:21 is repeated together with the preceding line, an... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 2:11. _BE HUMBLED_] "שפל ושח _shaphel veshach_, read שפלו שח _shaphelu shach_." - Dr. _Durell_. Which rectifies the grammatical construction. No MS. or version confirms this reading.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 2:13. _AND UPON ALL THE CEDARS_ - "Even against all the cedars"] Princes, potentates, rulers, captains, rich men, c. - So _Kimchi_. These verses afford us a striking example of that peculiar way of writing, which makes a principal characteristic of the parabolical or poetical style of... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 2:14. Isaiah 2:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 2:15. Isaiah 2:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 2:16. Isaiah 2:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 2:18. _SHALL UTTERLY ABOLISH _- "Shall disappear"] The ancient versions and an ancient MS. read יחלפו _yachalpu_, plural. One of my MSS. reads יחלוף _yachaloph_, probably a mistake for יחלפו _yachalpu_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 2:19. _INTO THE HOLES OF THE ROCKS_ - "Into caverns of rocks"] The country of Judea being mountainous and rocky, is full of caverns, as appears from the history of David's persecution under Saul. At En-gedi, in particular, there was a cave so large that David with _six hundred_ men hid... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 2:20. Isaiah 2:19. Ver. 20. Which they made each one for _HIMSELF TO WORSHIP _- "Which they have made to worship"] The word לו _lo, for himself_, is omitted by two ancient MSS., and is unnecessary. It does not appear that any copy of the _Septuagint_ has it, except MS. _Pachom_, and MS.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 2:21. Isaiah 2:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 2:22. _CEASE YE FROM MAN_] Trust neither in him, nor in the gods that he has invented. Neither he, nor they, can either save or destroy.... [ Continue Reading ]