Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 17:1
17:1 The {a} burden of {b} Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from [being] a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.(a) Read Geneva "Isaiah 13:1"(b) The chief city of Syria. read more
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John Calvin
John Calvin
Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 17:2
17:2 The cities of {c} Aroer [are] forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make [them] afraid.(c) It was a country of Syria by the river Arnon. read more
John Calvin
Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 17:3
17:3 The fortress also shall cease from {d} Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the {e} glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.(d) It seems that the prophet would comfort the Church in declaring the destruction of these two kings of Syria and Israel, when as they had conspired the overthrow of Judah.(e) The ten tribes gloried in their multitude and alliance with other nations: therefore he says that they will be brought down and... read more
John Calvin
Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 17:4
17:4 And in that day it shall come to pass, [that] the glory of {f} Jacob shall be diminished, and the fatness of his flesh shall become lean.(f) Meaning, of the ten tribes who boasted themselves of their nobility, prosperity, strength and multitude. read more
John Calvin
Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 17:5
17:5 And it shall be as when the reaper gathereth {g} the grain, and reapeth the heads with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth heads in the valley of {h} Rephaim.(g) As the abundance of corn does not fear the harvest men that would cut it down: no more will the multitude of Israel make the enemies shrink, whom God will appoint to destroy them.(h) A valley which was plentiful and fertile. read more
John Calvin
Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 17:6
17:6 Yet gleaning grapes shall {i} be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two [or] three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four [or] five in the outmost fruitful branches of it, saith the LORD God of Israel.(i) Because God would have his covenant stable, he promises to reserve some of this people, and to bring them to repentance. read more
John Calvin
Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 17:7
17:7 At that day shall a man look to his {k} Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.(k) He shows that God’s corrections always bring fruit, and cause his to turn from their sins and to humble themselves to him. read more
John Calvin
Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 17:9
17:9 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which {l} they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.(l) As the Canaanites left their cities when God placed the Israelites there, so the cities of Israel will not be able to defend their inhabitants any more than bushes, when God will send the enemy to plague them. read more
John Calvin
Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 17:10
17:10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with foreign {m} slips:(m) Which are excellent and brought out of other countries. read more
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Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Isaiah 17:1-14
CHAPTER 17 The Burden of Damascus and Judgment upon Ephraim 1. Damascus to be a ruinous heap (Isaiah 17:1-3 ) 2. Judgment upon Ephraim (Isaiah 17:4-11 ) 3. Woe to the enemies of Israel (Isaiah 17:12-14 ) Damascus was the ancient city of Syria, mentioned for the first time in Genesis 15:1-21 . Syria and Ephraim had made common cause against the house of David. Tiglath-pileser, King of Assyria, executed the judgment upon Damascus and made of it a ruinous heap. But the judgment is also... read more