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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 17:1-5

We have here the burden of Damascus; the Chaldee paraphrase reads it, The burden of the cup of the curse to drink to Damascus in; and, the ten tribes being in alliance, they must expect to pledge Damascus in this cup of trembling that is to go round. 1. Damascus itself, the head city of Syria, must be destroyed; the houses, it is likely, will be burnt, as least the walls, and gates, and fortifications demolished, and the inhabitants carried away captive, so that for the present it is taken... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 17:1

The burden of Damascus, .... A heavy and grievous prophecy, concerning the destruction of it; the Arabic version is, "the prophecy of Isaiah concerning Damascus;' and the Targum is, "the burden of the cup of cursing to give Damascus to drink.' Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city ; a kingdom, as the Targum; it was the head of one, but now its walls were demolished, its houses pulled down, and its inhabitants carried captive; this was done by Tilgathpilneser king of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 17:2

The cities of Aroer are forsaken ,.... The inhabitants of them being slain, or carried captive, or obliged to flee. Aroer was a city by the river Arnon, on the borders of Moab and Ammon, Deuteronomy 2:36 , Deuteronomy 3:12 , it was originally in the hands of the Amorites, and sometimes in the hands of the Moabites and Ammonites: it was given by Moses to the Reubenites and, Gadites, from whom it was taken by the Syrians, and in whose possession it seems to have been at this time; see 2... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 17:3

The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim ,.... The ten tribes, now in confederacy with the Syrians, whose metropolis or fortress was Samaria, which seems to be intended here; and should be destroyed, at least taken out of the hands of the Israelites, and they be carried captive by Shalmaneser king of Assyria, 2 Kings 17:6 and this may be understood, not of that particular city and fortress only, but of all their strongholds, the singular being, put for the plural. The Targum is, "the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 17:4

And in that day it shall come to pass ,.... It being much about the same time that both kingdoms were destroyed by the Assyrians: that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin ; the same with Ephraim and Israel, the ten tribes, whose glory lay in the superior number of their tribes to Judah; in the multitude of their cities, and the inhabitants of them; but now would be thinned, by the vast numbers that should be carried captive: and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean : like a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 17:5

And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn ,.... The "standing" corn, as in the Hebrew text: "and reapeth the ears with his arm"; or "his arm reaps the ears" F15 וזרעו שבלים יקצור "et brachium ejus spicas demeteret", Junius & Tremellius; "demetit", Piscator, &c.; ; that is, with one hand he gathers the standing corn into his fist, and then reaps it with his other arm; and just so it should be with the people of Israel: they were like a field of standing... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 17:1

The burden of Damascus - Which is, according to the common version, The cities of Aroer are forsaken. It has already been observed by the learned prelate that the prophecy, as it relates to Damascus, was executed in the beginning of the reign of Ahaz, probably about the third year. If we credit Midrash, the Damascenes were the most extensive and flagrant of all idolaters. "There were in Damascus three hundred and sixty-five streets, in each of these was an idol, and each idol had his... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 17:2

The cities of Aroer are forsaken "The cities are deserted for ever" - What has Aroer on the river Arnon to do with Damascus? and if there be another Aroer on the northern border of the tribe of Gad, as Reland seems to think there might be, this is not much more to the purpose. Besides, the cities of Aroer, if Aroer itself is a city, makes no good sense. The Septuagint, for ערער aroer , read עד עדי adey ad , εις τον αιωνα , for ever, or for a long duration. The Chaldee takes the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 17:3

The remnant of Syria "The pride of Syria" - For שאר shear , "remnant," Houbigant reads שאת seeth , "pride," answering, as the sentence seems evidently to require, to כבוד cabod , "the glory of Israel." The conjecture is so very probable that I venture to follow it. As the glory - בכבוד bichbod , "In the glory," is the reading of eight MSS., and ten editions. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 17:4

In that day - That is, says Kimchi, the time when the ten tribes of Israel, which were the glory of Jacob, should be carried into captivity. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 17:1-5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 17:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 17:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 17:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 17:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 17:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 17:1

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 17:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 17:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 17:4

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