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E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 24:1

Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos . the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4 . earth. Hebrew ha- 'arez . Occurs sixteen times in this chapter. Rendered "land" in verses: Isaiah 24:3 , Isaiah 24:11 , Isaiah 24:13 empty . Note the Figure of speech Synonymia , "empty", "waste", "upside down", "scattered abroad". See App-6 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 24:1

DIVISION IIIPROPHECIES RELATING TO THE ETERNAL JUDGMENT OF THE LAST DAY (Isaiah 24-27)THE DESTRUCTION OF THE EARTH BY FIREGod, having in previous prophecies denounced all of the great and powerful nations of the earth, "Now declares the judgments impending on the people of God themselves, for their wickedness and apostasy; and the desolation that shall be brought on their whole country."[1] Although some scholars still hold to this understanding of the chapter, our own opinion is that all four... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 24:1

Isaiah 24:1. Behold, &c.— The first section of the first discourse, contained, in this chapter, is twofold: the first member, which properly explains the judgments of God upon a corrupt people, extends to the middle of the 16th verse. The second, wherein also the judgment of God upon the enemies of the church is described, reaches to the end of the chapter. The description of the divine judgment in the former part, is contained in Isa 24:1-12 to which is subjoined a temperament or... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 24:1

1. the earth—rather, "the land" of Judah (so in Isaiah 24:3; Isaiah 24:5; Isaiah 24:6; Joel 1:2). The desolation under Nebuchadnezzar prefigured that under Titus. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 24:1

The prophet predicted that the Lord would lay the earth (land) waste, the sum total of all the nations, including those representative ones condemned in the oracles. Isaiah always used "behold" to introduce something future (cf. Isaiah 3:1; Isaiah 17:1; Isaiah 19:1; Isaiah 30:27; et al.). [Note: Delitzsch, 1:425] He would do the reverse of what He did in the Creation, when He brought order out of chaos (cf. Genesis 1:2). He would devastate the earth, making it desolate. He would distort the... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 24:1-20

The preservation of God’s people within a world under divine judgment 24:1-20Isaiah revealed that the Lord’s people are at the center of His plans for the world (cf. Isaiah 14:2; Isaiah 21:10). He will preserve them even though He will judge sinful humanity. It is believers who will be living on the earth during the Lord’s devastation of this planet that are in view (Tribulation saints), not Christians living before the Tribulation who will be taken to heaven in the Rapture before the... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 24:1-13

The Coming Judgment and Establishment of Jehovah’s KingdomThe subject is the overthrow of a power hostile to God’s people, with a description of the deliverance of the Jews and their future glory. The hostile power is not named, and the tone of the whole prophecy is so general that it is impossible to assign it to any occasion. With the anticipated overthrow of the enemy the prophet associates in thought Jehovah’s final judgment of the world. Most modern scholars assign this whole section to a... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 24:1-23

2. All class distinctions are obliterated and confused. 5. Defiled] i.e. desecrated by bloodshed (Numbers 35:33). Everlasting covenant] The phrase seems to allude to Genesis 9:16, the covenant with Noah and his sons. The bloodshed, upon which the great world-empires were founded, was a violation of this primitive covenant.7-9. The meaning is that every form of enjoyment has ceased. 10. Confusion] or, ’chaos’ (Genesis 1:2), so called because of the desolation awaiting it. No man, etc.] the... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 24:1

XXIV.(1) Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty . . .—The chapters from 24 to 27, inclusive, are to be taken as a continuous prophecy of the overthrow of the great world-powers which wore arrayed against Jehovah and His people. Of these Assyria was then the most prominent within the horizon of the prophet’s view; but Moab appears in Isaiah 25:10, and the language, with that exception, seems deliberately generalised, as if to paint the general discomfiture in every age (and, above all, in the... read more

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