Isaiah 24:22

And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited. AS PRISONERS ARE GATHERED IN THE PIT - `in the dungeon;' literally, 'upon [ `al (H5921)] the pit' or 'dungeon:' implying that the prisoners are let down from above into it. Image from captives thrust together into a dungeon against the day of judgment being pronounced upon them (cf. Jeremiah 39:5). IN THE PRISON - i:e., as in a prison. This sheds light on the disputed passage, 1 Peter 3:19, where also the prison is figurative. The men of the world just before the flood were shut up in this earth as in a gre...

22._And they shall be gathered together, and shall be shut up in prison. _He continues his subject in the beginning of the verse. The mode of expression is metaphorical; for they were not all captives, but God reduced them to servitude, as if a man held in his hand the enemies whom he subdued. He therefore brings forward God as a conqueror, who shuts up enemies in prison, as captives are commonly shut up. We know that men, as it were, flee from God, and despise him, so long as he spares them, and exercises any forbearance towards them; and on this account also he threatens that they shall be thrown into prison in large masses, that they may not solace themselves with their multitude. _Afterwards they shall be visited. _When he adds that after a time “they shall be visited,” it is not simply a promise, but includes also a threatening to this effect, “As formerly by their obstinacy they mo...

16-23 Believers may be driven into the uttermost parts of the earth; but they are singing, not sighing. Here is terror to sinners; the prophet laments the miseries he saw breaking in like a torrent; and the small number of believers. He foresees that sin would abound. The meaning is plain, that evil pursues sinners. Unsteady, uncertain are all these things. Worldly men think to dwell in the earth as in a palace, as in a castle; but it shall be removed like a cottage, like a lodge put up for the night. It shall fall and not rise again; but there shall be new heavens and a new earth, in which shall dwell nothing but righteousness. Sin is a burden to the whole creation; it is a heavy burden, under which it groans now, and will sink at last. The high ones, that are puffed up with their grandeur, that think themselves out of the reach of danger, God will visit for their pride and cruelty. Le...

AND THEY SHALL BE GATHERED TOGETHER - That is, those who occupy posts of honor and influence in the ecclesiastical and civil polity of the land. “As prisoners.” Margin, as in the Hebrew, ‘With the gathering of prisoners.’ The reference is to the custom of collecting captives taken in war, and chaining them together by the hands and feet, and thrusting them in large companies into a prison. IN THE PIT - Margin, ‘Dungeon.’ The sense is, that he rulers of the land should be made captive, and treated as prisoners of war. This was undoubtedly true in the captivity under Nebuchadnezzar. The people were assembled; were regarded as captives; and were conveyed together to a distant land. AND SHALL BE SHUT UP IN THE PRISON - Probably this is not intended to be taken literally, but to denote that they would be as secure as if they were shut up in prison. Their prison-hou

SECTION VI. GOD'S GENERAL JUDGMENTS UPON THE EARTH (Isaiah 24-27.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 24:1 GOD'S JUDGMENTS ON THE WORLD AT LARGE. From special denunciations of woe upon particular nations—Babylon, Assyria, Philistia, Moab, Syria of Damascus, Egypt and Ethiopia, Arabia, Judea, Tyre—the prophet passes to denunciations of a broader character, involving the future of the whole world. This section of his work extends from the commencement of Isaiah 24:1. to the conclusion of...

AND THEY SHALL BE GATHERED TOGETHER,.... First to the battle of the great day of God Almighty at Armageddon, Revelation 16:14 and there being overcome and taken, they shall be gathered together [AS] PRISONERS ARE GATHERED IN THE PIT, AND SHALL BE SHUT UP IN THE PRISON; in the prison or the grave, and in hell; as captives are, till such time as something is determined and ordered what to be done with them: AND AFTER MANY DAYS SHALL THEY BE VISITED; or punished, that is, after the thousand years are ended, when the wicked dead will be all raised; after the battle of Gog and Magog, when Satan, the beast, and false prophet, and all their adherents, shall be cast into the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, Revelation 19:20....

CHAPTER 24 The Day of Jehovah 1. _Jehovah dealing with the earth(Isaiah 24:1)_ 2. _All classes affected (Isaiah 24:2)_ 3. _The Desolations described (Isaiah 24:3)_ 4. _The Jewish Remnant during the trouble (Isaiah 24:13)_ 5. _The punishment of the high ones and kings (Isaiah 24:21)_ 6. _Jehovah's reign in Mount Zion and Jerusalem (Isaiah 24:23)_ A marvellous chapter. Not a word of it has ever been fulfilled. The great day of Jeh

ISAIAH 24. A WORLD-WIDE JUDGMENT FORETOLD. The apocalypse opens with the description of a judgment on the whole world. This judgment is predicted, it has not already happened. It will involve all in one common ruin, every distinction of class will be obliterated. For the world's inhabitants have broken the covenant made with Noah, in which bloodshed was forbidden (Genesis 9:5 f.). On bloodshed the huge empires have been founded and they shall perish in the blood they have spilt. Few men will be left, merriment ceases for wine is scarce, and the revellers who drink wine and strong drink find no pleasure in it. The city of false gods has its walls broken, the houses are closely barricaded, all gladness has gone, the city is desolation, the gate in ruins. The survivors are proportionately as few as the olives left to be beaten off the tree, or the few grapes to be gleaned when the principal...

PIT. Not the same word as in verses: Isaiah 24:17; Isaiah 24:18. Here, Hebrew. _bor_,. dug-out pit, or dungeon. Occurs in Isaiah 14:15; Isaiah 14:19; Isaiah 36:13; Isaiah 38:18. and in "latter" portion, Isaiah 51:1. App-79. AND. even. VISITED: i.e. with the judgments foretold in the preceding Verses. Compare...

The judgment on the powers of evil, and the enthronement of Jehovah on Mount Zion....