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E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 11:13

Ephraim. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Part), for the whole of the ten tribes. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 11:11-14

Isaiah 11:11-14. And it shall come to pass, &c.— Another event of the kingdom of the Messiah is, the calling of the dispersed Jews, the outcasts of Israel, the dispersed of Judah, and their general collection to the church. The period is difficult: it divides itself into two parts: the first describing the benefit itself of this vocation and collection, and its manner; Isa 11:11-12 and the second, the state of the people restored. There can be no doubt of the subject of this prophesy. It... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 11:13

13. envy . . . of Ephraim . . . Judah—which began as early as the time (Judges 8:1; Judges 12:1, c.). Joshua had sprung from, and resided among the Ephraimites (Numbers 13:9 Joshua 19:50); the sanctuary was with them for a time (Joshua 18:1). The jealousy increased subsequently (2 Samuel 2:8; 2 Samuel 19:41; 2 Samuel 20:2; 2 Samuel 3:10); and even before David's time (1 Samuel 11:8; 1 Samuel 15:4), they had appropriated to themselves the national name Israel. It ended in disruption (1 Kings... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 11:5-16

3. Hope of God’s deliverance 10:5-11:16Earlier God revealed that He would use Assyria to destroy Judah for her lack of trust in Yahweh (Isaiah 7:1 to Isaiah 8:22). Now He revealed that He would also destroy this destroyer (cf. Habakkuk 2:4-20). It is God who is sovereign, not Assyria, and He was with His people."The Messianic prophecy, which turns its darker side towards unbelief in ch. vii., and whose promising aspect burst like a great light through the darkness in ch. viii. 5-ix. 6, is... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 11:10-16

The return under the Shoot 11:10-16The rebellion of one Davidic king, Ahaz, would result in the defeat and dispersion of God’s people (Isaiah 8:6-8), but the righteousness of another Davidic king, Messiah, would result in their revival and return to God and the Promised Land. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 11:13-14

Internal strife among the tribes will cease. Instead of fighting among themselves, the Israelites will subdue their common enemies and gain the whole Promised Land. Evidently this conflict will precede the peace pictured in Isaiah 11:6-9. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 11:1-16

1. Rod out of the stem] RV ’shoot out of the stock,’ implying that the tree has been cut down. The Assyrians have been compared in the vv. preceding to cedars, which when felled throw out no fresh suckers; now the house of David is likened to an oak whose life remains in it after it has been cut down (Isaiah 6:13). From the royal family of Judah, though it may seem ruined, is to spring the ideal Ruler in the future. It has been already implied (Isaiah 9:7), and is here expressly stated, that... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 11:13

(13) The envy also of Ephraim shall depart . . .—The prophet’s vision of the future would not have been complete if national unity had not been included in it. He looked back on the history of the past, and saw almost from the first the deep line of cleavage between north and south, Israel and Judah. Century by century the chasm had grown deeper and wider; sub-sections of antagonism had increased its bitterness (Isaiah 9:21); but in the times of the Christ the sense of unity should be stronger... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Isaiah 11:1-16

The Shoot Out of the Dry Stock Isaiah 11:1 I. In that story of the shoot out of the dry stock two thoughts, as it were, compete for utterance. 1. There is the thought that God in Christ finds us where we are and not other where, meets us in the weary day which our pilgrimage has actually reached, demands of us no impossible return to the beginning of our lives. He has a new growth for the cut-down stock. There is no uprooting, no fresh seed; but from the old tree springs the leaf of joy. 2. In... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 11:1-16

CHAPTER XTHE SPIRIT OF GOD IN MAN AND THE ANIMALSABOUT 720 B.C.Isaiah 11:1-16; Isaiah 12:1-6BENEATH the crash of the Assyrian with which the tenth chapter closes, we pass out into the eleventh upon a glorious prospect of Israel’s future. The Assyrian when he falls shall fall forever like the cedars of Lebanon, that send no fresh sprout forth from their broken stumps. But out of the trunk of the Judaean oak, also brought down by these terrible storms, Isaiah sees springing a fair and powerful... read more

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