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Ask a Questionwith destruction--rather "crash" [Gesenius]. "With a great tumult the gate is battered down" [Horsley].
word--conscience, guided by the Holy Spirit (Joh 16:13).
(See Isa 37:29, 37; Isa 29:5-8).
The prophet, seeing in vision new hosts approaching quickly like a cloud of doves, asks who they are.
howl--(Isa 15:2; Mt 8:12).
Holy One--Isaiah so little yields to their wicked prejudices that he repeats the very name and truth which they disliked. this word--Isaiah's exhortation to reliance on Jehovah. oppression--whereby...
In 2Ki 20:4, the quickness of God's answer to the prayer is marked, "afore Isaiah had gone out into the middle court, the word of the Lord came to him"; that is, before he had left Hezekiah, or at...
Isaiah is outside, near the altar in front of the temple. The doors are supposed to open, and the veil hiding the Holy of Holies to be withdrawn, unfolding to his view a vision of God represented...
altar--not for sacrifice, but as the "pillar" for memorial and worship (Jos 22:22-26). Isaiah does not contemplate a temple in Egypt: for the only legal temple was at Jerusalem; but, like the...
He does not narrate the event, but graphically supposes himself a watchman in Babylon, beholding the events as they pass. Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth--God's direction to ...
The connection is: As Israel's high destiny is to be a blessing to all nations (Ge 12:3), let Israel's children walk worthy of it (Eph5:8).
(Compare Isa 2:9, 11, 17). All ranks, "mean" and "mighty" alike; so "honorable" and "multitude" (Isa 5:13).
the people--the whole nation, Judah and Israel. shadow of death--the darkest misery of captivity.
know--to their cost: experimentally (Ho 9:7). Samaria--the capital of Ephraim (compare as to phrase, Isa 1:1).
leaders, &c.--(See Isa 3:12, Margin, and see on Isa 3:12.)
Just as Miriam, after the deliverance of the Red Sea (Isa 11:16), celebrated it with an ode of praise (Ex 15:1-19).
opened not...house...prisoners--But Maurer, as Margin, "Did not let his captives loose homewards."
residue...diminished--The remnant of Arab warriors, famous in the bow, left after the invasion, shall be small.
utterly destroyed--rather, "doomed them to an utter curse" [Horsley]. delivered--rather, "appointed."
Images from the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah (Ge 19:24-28; so De29:23; Jer 49:17, 18).
Hena...Ivah--in Babylonia. From Ava colonists had been brought to Samaria (2Ki 17:24).
remnant--Judah remained after the ten tribes were carried away; also those of Judah who should survive Sennacherib's invasion are meant.
The couches in the East run along the walls of houses. He turned away from the spectators to hide his emotion and collect his thoughts for prayer.
The prayer and thanksgiving song of Hezekiah is only given here, not in the parallel passages of Second Kings and Second Chronicles. Isa38:9 is the heading or inscription.