Isaiah 3:4
What meaning of the isaiah 3:4 in the Bible?
What does Isaiah 3:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them."
What does Isaiah 3:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them."
Verse Isaiah 3:4. _I WILL GIVE CHILDREN TO BE THEIR PRINCES _- "I will make boys their princes"] This also was fully accomplished in the succession of weak and wicked princes, from the death of Josiah...
AND I WILL GIVE CHILDREN - Not children in respect to age so much as in regard to talent for governing. I will commit the land to the government of weak and imbecile princes. This would naturally occu...
CHAPTER 3 Judgments upon the Rulers and the Daughters Of Zion 1. _The judgment against the rulers (Isaiah 3:1)_ 2. _Jerusalem's sad condition (Isaiah 3:8)_ 3. _Jehovah's message (Isaiah 3:10)_ 4. _Th...
JUDAH TO BE PUNISHED WITH ANARCHY. The date is uncertain. That it was early in the reign of Ahaz is a dubious inference from Isaiah 3:12. The pillars of society will be removed, and control will thus...
CHILDREN. youths, or boys. BABES. with caprice. Not the same word...
AND BABES SHALL RULE OVER THEM— _And they shall wantonly lord it over them._ Schultens. See Ecclesiastes 10:16. This was the state of things in Judaea, after the carrying away of Jehoiachin to Babylon...
CHAPTER THREE 3. THE VENGEANCE UPON DECADENCE Isaiah 3:1 to Isaiah 4:1 a. THE WEALTHY TEXT: Isaiah 3:1-15 1 For, behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah...
And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. AND I WILL GIVE CHILDREN - in ability for governing: antithesis to the "ancient" (see ; ). (TO BE) THEIR PRINCES, AN...
3:4 children (g-10) Some take the word as 'childish things,' or 'caprices.'...
1. STAY AND THE STAFF] A prophecy of famine: cp. Isaiah 3:7, as the clause following explains. But if the latter clause is a gloss then 'stay and staff' would refer to the classes upon which the stabi...
True religion will produce a true society (see Isaiah 2:1-5). But Isaiah saw that actual affairs in *Jerusalem were the opposite. • God’s judgement often happens by means of society’s circumstances....
I WILL GIVE CHILDREN TO BE THEIR PRINCES. — Better, _youths._ The words may point obliquely to Ahaz, who had ascended the throne at the age of twenty (2 Chronicles 28:1). Manasseh was but twelve when...
וְ נָתַתִּ֥י נְעָרִ֖ים שָׂרֵיהֶ֑ם וְ תַעֲלוּלִ֖ים יִמְשְׁלוּ ־בָֽם׃...
CHAPTER II THE THREE JERUSALEMS 740-735 B.C. Isaiah 2:1; Isaiah 3:1; Isaiah 4:1 AFTER the general introduction, in chapter 1, to the prophecies of Isaiah, there comes another portion of the book, o...
AN EXHORTATION TO HUMILITY AND REVERENCE Isaiah 2:12-22; Isaiah 3:1-12 If men will not repent, they must suffer. If they will not voluntarily put away their idols and sorceries, they will be compell...
The prophet now deals with judgment in greater detail, and shows how it will proceed against the rulers and against the women. The judgment in the case of the rulers is to be the destruction of true g...
And I will give (d) children [to be] their princes, and babes shall rule over them. (d) Not only in age: but in manners, knowledge and strength....
_Effeminate. Hebrew, "babes." Septuagint, "scoffers." Aquila, &c., "changers," (Calmet) who give way to unnatural excesses, Romans i. 27. (Haydock) --- Some manifest a prudence beyond their years: but...
The prophet plainly shows by these verses, that the sin is universal. All ranks and all orders of the people are involved in the same sin, and consequently the same punishment. It is a melancholy stat...
4._And I will appoint children to be their princes _(56) That the vengeance of God may be more manifest, he now describes how sad and wretched will be the change, when competent and faithful rulers sh...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 2, 3, AND 4. Thus re-established, Zion, the mountain of Jehovah, will be the centre of blessing and peace to all the nations (Isaiah 2:1-4). This puts the inv...
AND I WILL GIVE CHILDREN [TO BE] THEIR PRINCES,.... Either in age, or in understanding, who are really so, or act like such; and in either sense, when this is the case, it is an unhappiness to a natio...
_And I will give children [to be] their princes, and babes shall rule over them._ Ver. 4. _And I will give children to be their princes._] _Si non annis, at animis; _ If not with years but with life,...
_And I will give children to be their princes_ Either, 1st, Children in age, whose minority corrupt ministers of state commonly abuse, to the producing of much evil: or, 2d, In understanding and exper...
GOD'S THREAT OF PUNISHMENT...
1-9 God was about to deprive Judah of every stay and support. The city and the land were to be made desolate, because their words and works had been rebellious against the Lord; even at his holy templ...
CHILDREN; either, 1. In age, whose minority corrupt ministers of state commonly abuse to great mischiefs; or, 2. In understanding, experience, and manners; foolish, froward, unteachable, &c....
Isaiah 3:4 give H5414 (H8804) children H5288 princes H8269 babes H8586 rule H4910 (H8799) children - 1 Kings 3:7-9; 2 Chronicles 33:1, 2 Chronicles 34:1, 2 Chronicles 36:2, 2 Chr
ALL THAT JERUSALEM/JUDAH DEPEND ON IS TO BE TAKEN AWAY SO THAT SOCIETY WILL DISINTEGRATE TOWARDS EVEN MORE EVIL (ISAIAH 3:1 A). Having covered world judgment Isaiah now brings it home to the local si...
CONTENTS: The coming desolations of Jerusalem because of sin and the judgment of sinners. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: Whatever evil befalls sinners, it is of their own procuring. Those who...
Isaiah 3:1. _Behold, the Lord doth take away from Jerusalem the whole stay of bread._ This threatening is understood of the Chaldean invasion in the reign of Jechoniah, and after the death of king Jos...
_I will give children to be their princes_ PUERILE GOVERNMENT Probably an abstract term used for a concrete--puerilities or childishnesses for childish persons_._ (_J. A. Alexander._) JUVENILE GOV...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 3:1 The false and sinful glories of men and women, which are temporary, are replaced by the eternal glory of the Lord (Isaiah 4:6). ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagN...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 3:1 GOD'S JUDGMENT UPON JERUSALEM. The general denunciations against Israel of the two preceding chapters are here turned especially against Jerusalem. God will deprive her of all h...
For, behold, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, the mighty men, and the man of war, the judge...
1 Kings 3:7; 2 Chronicles 33:1; 2 Chronicles 34:1; 2 Chronicles 36:11; 2 Chronicles 36:2; 2 Chronicles 36:5; 2 Chronicles 36:9; Ecclesiastes 10:16...