Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Isaiah 20:5
And they shall be afraid and ashamed of (e) Cush their expectation, and of Egypt their (f) glory.
(e) In whose aid they trusted.
(f) Of whom they boasted and gloried.
And they shall be afraid and ashamed of (e) Cush their expectation, and of Egypt their (f) glory.
(e) In whose aid they trusted.
(f) Of whom they boasted and gloried.
AND THEY SHALL BE AFRAID - The Jews, or the party or faction among the Jews, that were expecting aid from allied Ethiopia and Egypt. When they shall see them vanquished, they shall apprehend a similar...
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...
EXPECTATION. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), for the help expected from Egypt. EGYPT THEIR GLORY. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), for the Egyptians, in whom they glo...
The effect which the sight of these miserable gangs of captives will produce on the inhabitants of Palestine. This is the real motive of the prophecy. Hezekiah probably took the warning. _they shall...
AND THEY SHALL BE AFRAID, &C.— We have, in these words, the consequence of the divine judgment upon the Egyptians and Cushites; and the scope of the prophesy, namely, to convince the inhabitants of Pa...
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 they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. THEY - the Philistine allies of Egypt, who trusted in it for help against Assyria. SHALL BE ... ASHAM...
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...
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...
וְ חַתּ֖וּ וָ בֹ֑שׁוּ מִ כּוּשׁ֙ מַבָּטָ֔ם
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...
_Glory. The alliance of these nations shall not avail the Jews, who are said to inhabit an island, because they neglected God's service no less than the most distant and abandoned nations. (Calmet) --...
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,...
5._And they shall be afraid. _He now shews for whose benefit he had foretold these things about the Egyptians and Ethiopians. It was in order that the Jews might learn amidst their afflictions to hope...
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 THEY SHALL BE AFRAID AND ASHAMED,.... That is, those that trusted and depended upon the Egyptians and Ethiopians, particularly the Jews after mentioned, shall be "afraid" that it will be their tur...
And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. Ver. 5. _And they shall be afraid and ashamed._] They - that is, as many as confided in them - seeing the...
_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 they, the inhabitants of Palestine, also the Jews, who looked to Egypt as a possible ally against Assyria, SHALL BE AFRAID AND ASHAMED OF ETHIOPIA, THEIR EXPECTATION, finding themselves disappoint...
THE SYMBOL OF EGYPT'S AND ETHIOPIA'S FALL....
THEY; all they that shall trust to them, and glory in them, as appears from the following words; the pronoun they being put indefinitely here, as it is ISAIAH 2:19, and elsewhere. But under this gener...
Isaiah 20:5 afraid H2865 (H8804) ashamed H954 (H8804) Ethiopia H3568 expectation H4007 Egypt H4714 glory H8597...
‘And they will be dismayed and ashamed, because of Cush their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. And the inhabitant of this coastland will say in that day, “Behold, such is our expectation, where...
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...
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...
_They shall be. .. ashamed of. .. their expectation_ UNREASONABLE EXPECTATIONS A great deal of the discomfort, a large proportion of the disappointments of the world, may be traced to unreasonable e...
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...
1 Corinthians 3:21; 2 Kings 18:21; Ezekiel 29:6; Ezekiel 29:7;...
They — All that shall trust to them. But under this general expression the Israelites, seem to be principally intended....