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Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 18:1-7

Alliance with Ethiopia refused (18:1-7)Along the upper reaches of the Nile River was the country known as Ethiopia (RSV), Sudan (GNB) or Cush (NIV). It was a land of tall smooth-skinned people, but also a land plagued by swarms of buzzing insects. From this country a group of government representatives came to visit Judah, travelling down the Nile and across to Jerusalem. They apparently hoped to gain Hezekiah’s cooperation in an attack against Assyria. Isaiah sends them back as he had done the... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 18:3

He =. Jehovah. See Structure, above. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 18:3

Isaiah 18:3. All ye inhabitants— We have here the declaration made to the other people of the world to expect the fall of the Assyrian. God invites all the people of the earth to this sight; that as soon as they should observe the sign appointed by God, namely, the standards lifted up on the mountains of Judaea, and the sound of the trumpets of the hostile army preparing to besiege Jerusalem, they should attend to the execution of this divine judgment. When he lifteth up, seems undoubtedly to... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 18:3

3. see ye . . . hear ye—rather, "ye shall see . . . shall hear." Call to the whole earth to be witnesses of what Jehovah ("He") is about to do. He will "lift up an ensign," calling the Assyrian motley hosts together (Isaiah 5:26) on "the mountains" round Jerusalem, to their own destruction. This (the Isaiah 5:26- :) declares the coming overthrow of those armies whose presence is announced in Isaiah 17:12; Isaiah 17:13. The same motive, which led Hezekiah to seek aid from Egypt, led him to... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 18:1-3

The land that lies beyond the rivers of Cush was Cush (Nubia), notable for its ships, whose sails looked like the whirring wings of insects over water from a distance. Another view of the whirling wings is that they represent swarming hordes of people, including soldiers. [Note: Young, 1:474-75.] Cush was at the end of the earth in Isaiah’s day and therefore symbolized the ends of the earth; it was a great distance from Judah. Some scholars believe Cush lay within what is now Ethiopia, but... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 18:1-7

Ethiopia ReassuredIsaiah here addresses the Ethiopians, who, agitated at the advance of the Assyrians west-ward, were sending ambassadors to other states to organise resistance. He foretells the sudden overthrow of the Assyrians, as in Isaiah 10:28-34; Isaiah 14:24-27; Isaiah 17:12-14 and this prophecy should accordingly be grouped with those, as relating to Sennacherib’s great invasion in the reign of Hezekiah,701 b.c.1-3. The Ethiopians need not be anxious, but are bidden, with all nations,... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 18:3

(3) When he lifteth up an ensign . . .—Both clauses are better taken as indefinite, when an ensign is set up . . . when a trumpet is sounded. The prophet calls on all nations (Ethiopia being specially included) to watch for the signal that shall be given, distinct as the beacon-fire on the hill, or the alarm of the trumpet, to proclaim the downfall of Assyria. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 18:1-7

32CHAPTER XVIIISAIAH TO THE FOREIGN NATIONS736-702 B.C.Isaiah 14:24-32; Isaiah 15:1-9; Isaiah 16:1-14; Isaiah 17:1-14; Isaiah 18:1-7; Isaiah 19:1-25; Isaiah 20:1-6; Isaiah 21:1-17; Isaiah 23:1-18THE centre of the Book of Isaiah (chapters 13 to 23) is occupied by a number of long and short prophecies which are a fertile source of perplexity to the conscientious reader of the Bible. With the exhilaration of one who traverses plain roads and beholds vast prospects, he has passed through the... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Isaiah 18:1-7

CHAPTER 18 When Israel Will be Brought Back 1. The land beyond the rivers of Ethiopia (Isaiah 18:1 ) 2. The ambassadors sent (Isaiah 18:2 ) 3. The trumpet blown and Jehovah’s Message (Isaiah 18:3-6 ) 4. Israel restored to Mount Zion (Isaiah 18:7 ) An interesting prophecy concerning a nation of great power, which will be used in the bringing back of God’s ancient people. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 18:3

18:3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when {f} he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.(f) When the Lord prepared to fight against the Ethiopians. read more