Isaiah 11:13

The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. ENVY ALSO OF EPHRAIM SHALL DEPART ... JUDAH. "The envy" on the part of Ephraim, wherewith they were jealous of any rival in prowess, began as early as the time in ; , etc. Joshua had sprung from and resided among the Ephraimites (; ). The sanctuary was with them in Shiloh for a long time (). The jealousy increased subsequently, when Abner set up Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, to be king of Israel against David, king of Judah ...

13._And the envy of Ephraim shall depart. _Here he promises that the Church will be in such a state of peace, that neither will the Israelites and the Jews contend in civil broils, nor will they suffer any annoyance from their enemies, and that they will not be liable to hatred or _envy_, as they formerly were. Not that there will be no wicked men, but the Lord will at length cut off and destroy them. But we ought chiefly to observe what he adds about allaying domestic quarrels, that henceforth the children of Abraham may not harass each other, but unite in the same religion, and in the pure worship of God; for it was a disgraceful and shocking spectacle that their mutual strife and hostilities had been so long maintained. With good reason does he point out the source of quarrels, namely, _envy_, in consequence of which the descendants of Abraham have torn each other, while the tribes of...

10-16 When the gospel should be publicly preached, the Gentiles would seek Christ Jesus as their Lord and Saviour, and find rest of soul. When God's time is come for the deliverance of his people, mountains of opposition shall become plains before him. God can soon turn gloomy days into glorious ones. And while we expect the Lord to gather his ancient people, and bring them home to his church, also to bring in the fulness of the Gentiles, when all will be united in holy love, let us tread the highway of holiness he has made for his redeemed. Let us wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life, looking to him to prepare our way through death, that river which separates this world from the eternal world....

Verse Isaiah 11:13. _THE ADVERSARIES OF JUDAH _- "And the enmity of Judah"] צררים _tsorerim_. Postulat pars posterior versus, ut intelligantur _inimicitiae_ Judae in Ephraimum: et potest (צררים _tsorerim_) inimicitiam notare, ut (נחומים _nichumim_) poenitentiam, Hosea 11:8.-SECKER....

THE ENVY ALSO - The word “envy” here, is used in the sense of “hatred,” or the hatred which arose from the “ambition” of Ephraim, and from the “prosperity” of Judah. Ephraim here, is the name for the kingdom of Israel, or the ten tribes. The reasons of their envy and enmity toward Judah, all arising from their ambition, were the following: (1) This tribe, in connection with those which were allied to it, constituted a very large and flourishing part of the Jewish nation. They were, therefore, envious of any other tribe that claimed any superiority, and particularly jealous of Judah. (2) They occupied a central and commanding position in Judea, and naturally claimed the pre-eminence over the tribes on the north. (3) They had been formerly highly favored by the abode of the ark and the tabernacle among them, and, on that account, claimed t

EXPOSITION ISAIAH 11:1 A RENEWED PROPHECY OF MESSIAH AND OF HIS KINGDOM. This chapter is closely connected with the preceding. With the final destruction of Assyria, which, being cut down, sends out no shoot (Isaiah 10:33, Isaiah 10:34), is contrasted the recuperative energy of Israel, which, though equally leveled with the ground (Isaiah 9:18, Isaiah 9:19), shall spring afresh into life,

THE ENVY ALSO OF EPHRAIM SHALL DEPART,.... With which it envied Judah, on account of the kingdom of the house of David, and the temple being in that tribe; not that this is the thing intended, only alluded to; the meaning is, that whatever envy or jealousy subsisted in the Gentile against the Jew, or in the Jew against the Gentile, should be no more, when gathered into one Gospel church state; or whatever of this kind has appeared in one Christian church, or denomination among Christians, against another, shall cease, when the Gospel in its power and purity shall more generally take place, and the earth shall be filled with it: AND THE ADVERSARIES OF JUDAH, or of God's professing people, SHALL BE CUT OFF; and be no more, as the Turks and Papists: EPHRAIM SHALL NOT ENVY JUDAH, AND JUDAH SHALL NOT VEX EPHRAIM; this is repeated for the confirmation of it; and the sense is, that all animo...

CHAPTER 11 The Coming King and His Kingdom 1. _The King: Who He is and what He will do (Isaiah 11:1)_ 2. _The peace and blessing He brings (Isaiah 11:6)_ 3. _The gathering of scattered Israel (Isaiah 11:11) _ It is a great vision of the future which this chapter unfolds. The critics deny that the blessed Person mentioned in the opening verses is our Lord Jesus. They think Hezekiah or Josiah is meant. 2 Thessalonians 2:8 shows that it is our Lord. Link Isaiah 11:1 with...

THE RETURN OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH FROM THE DISPERSION, AND VICTORIOUS ALLIANCE AGAINST THEIR ANCIENT FOES. This is probably post-exilic. The ideas are characteristic of that period Israel's spiritual primacy, the latter-day glory of Jerusalem, the flocking of the heathen to it as disciples. Isaiah 11:11 f., Isaiah 11:15 f. are more natural in a later writer, for the Israelites would hardly be so widely dispersed in Isaiah's time. Isaiah 11:10 appears to be an editorial addition combining elements from Isaiah 2:2 and from Isaiah 4:2. The root seems to be a shoot spr

EPHRAIM. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Part), for the whole of the ten tribes....