And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, [with] a couple of horsemen. And (m) he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken to the ground.
(m) The watchman whom Isaiah set up, told him who came toward Babylon, and the angel declared that it would be destroyed: all this was done in a vision.
Verse Isaiah 21:9. _HERE COMETH A CHARIOT OF MEN_, c. - "A man, one of the two riders"] So the _Syriac_ understands it, and Ephrem Syr....
AND, BEHOLD ... A CHARIOT OF MEN - This place shows that the word ‘chariot’ (רכב _rekeb_) may denote something else than a wagon or carriage, as a chariot drawn by men cannot be intended. The sense ca...
CHAPTER 21 The Burdens of the Desert of the Sea, of Dumah, and Arabia 1. _The burden of the desert of the sea (Babylon) (Isaiah 21:1)_ 2. _The burden of Dumah (Isaiah 21:11)_ 3. The burden upon Arabi...
THE CAPTURE OF BABYLON. This prophecy describes a siege and capture of Babylon by Elam and Media. It is almost universally considered to have been written shortly before the capture of Babylon by Cyru...
MEN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14. BABYLON IS FALLEN, &C. Note the Figure of speech _Epizeuxis_, for emphasis. THE GRAVEN IMAGES OF HER GODS. Reference to Pentateuch. Phrase peculiar to Deuteronomy 7:25;...
Hardly has he spoken when the appointed vision appears: AND, BEHOLD, HERE COMETH A TROOP OF MEN, HORSEMEN IN PAIRS (see Isaiah 21:7). And in the same breath the watchman declares its significance: BAB...
Hitherto the prophet has spoken of his vision as a thing "announced" to him; now he proceeds to describe, in a very interesting passage, the method of its communication. The delineation is figurative,...
FOR THUS HATH THE LORD SAID UNTO ME— The Holy Spirit, having proposed to make Isaiah, and by him the church, most certain of this memorable event, confirms the preceding revelation by an elegant emble...
D. IRREVERENT ENEMIES - Chapter S 21-23 CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE 1. BABYLON, EDOM AND ARABIA a. BABYLON TEXT: Isaiah 21:1-10 1 The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep...
And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground. C...
VISION OF BABYLON'S FALL The subject of this section is the siege of Babylon, and the dismay with which the prophet receives tidings of its fall. The siege referred to can scarcely be the one at the c...
Just as he groans aloud in impatience, he sees a company approaching, and recognises that they are the bearers of the expected tidings....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 21 ENEMIES DESTROY BABYLON V1 A special message about Babylon that God gave to Isaia...
The broken images are evidence that the gods of Babylon were unable to protect their own city. So those gods cannot help the people in Judah or anybody else....
וְ הִנֵּה ־זֶ֥ה בָא֙ רֶ֣כֶב אִ֔ישׁ צֶ֖מֶד
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
In this chapter we have prophecies concerning Babylon, Dumah, and Arabia. With regard to Babylon, the prophet has seen the vision of the whirlwind sweeping against it, and so terrible is it that he is...
_Horsemen, drawn by the ass and camel, ver. 7. This was verified long after._...
Here by vision, a sketch of that memorable event is given to the Prophet. Though at a distance of time and place so remote; yet the outline of the horrors of Babylon is given to the Prophet, to behold...
9._Babylon is fallen, is fallen. _This shews plainly that it is not king Belshazzar’s watchman who is introduced, for this speech would be unsuitable to such a character. The Prophet therefore makes k...
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, BEHOLD, HERE COMETH A CHARIOT OF MEN,.... Or "of a man" x; a chariot with a man in it, Cyrus or Darius: [WITH] A COUPLE OF HORSEMEN; the army of the Medes and Persians, with their two leaders or...
And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, [with] a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground. V...
_And he cried, A lion_ “The present reading, אריה, _a lion_, is so unintelligible,” says Bishop Lowth, “and the mistake so obvious, that I make no doubt that the true reading is הראה,” (_he that saw_,...
THE ORACLE AGAINST BABYLON...
and, behold, even while he was voicing his complaint, he makes a discovery, HERE COMETH A CHARIOT OF MEN, WITH A COUPLE OF HORSEMEN, a small troop of men riding in pairs. AND HE ANSWERED AND SAID, the...
1-10 Babylon was a flat country, abundantly watered. The destruction of Babylon, so often prophesied of by Isaiah, was typical of the destruction of the great foe of the New Testament church, foretol...
BEHOLD; the sum of what I have discovered is this. A CHARIOT OF MEN; not filled with goods, as chariots of burden used to be; but provided with men, to fight from or with them. WITH A COUPLE OF HORSEM...
Isaiah 21:9 comes H935 (H8802) chariot H7393 men H376 pair H6776 horsemen H6571 answered H6030 (H8799) said...
CHAPTER 21 THE BURDENS ON THE WILDERNESS OF THE SEA, ON DUMAH AND ON ARABIA. We now come to the second five of the ten burdens. And here we pause to note the careful way in which the prophecy has been...
THE BURDEN OF THE WILDERNESS OF THE SEA (ISAIAH 21:1). The interpretations of this prophecy have been varied although all finally must relate it to one of the sackings of Babylon (Isaiah 21:9) of whic...
CONTENTS: Four burdens anticipating Sennacherib's invasion. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: Neither the skill of archers nor the courage of mighty men can protect a people from the judgments of...
Isaiah 21:1. _The desert of the sea._ The army which invaded Babylon came not directly against it; but Cyrus made a circuitous route, and collected part of his army from the deserts and mountains towa...
_The burden of the desert of the sea_ THE DESERT OF THE SEA This enigmatical name for Babylon was no doubt suggested by the actual character of the country in which the city stood. It was an endless...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 21:1 Five new oracles reveal God’s ruling and judging the wilderness by the sea (Isaiah 21:1), Dumah ...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 21:7, ISAIAH 21:9 RIDERS. Mounted warriors....
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 21:9 FALLEN, FALLEN IS BABYLON. The repeated cry emphasizes Babylon’s final and total destruction (see Revelation 14:8;...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 21:1 THE BURDEN OF THE DESERT OF THE SEA. This is a short and somewhat vague, but highly poetic, "burden of Babylon" It is probably an earlier prophecy than...
Shall we turn to Isaiah, chapter 21. Isaiah begins this particular prophecy and addresses it to Babylon which was referred to as, The desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass (Isaiah 21:1)...
Isaiah 13:19; Isaiah 14:4; Isaiah 46:1; Isaiah 46:2; Jeremiah 50:2;...
Men — Not fitted with goods, but provided with men to fight. He — The prophet, who here gives an explication of the vision. He — God, by the hands of Cyrus....