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E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 30:23

thy seed. Another reading (Ben Naphtali) is "thy land". earth = ground, or soil. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 30:24

ear. Old English = to plough: from Anglo-Saxon erian: and this from the Latin arare : the Aryan root AR entering into many words with a cognate reference. ARt (ploughing being the oldest art); oAR (with which the water is ploughed); ARtos(Greek for bread); eARth; ARatrum (Latin, a plough); ARare (to plough). The verb "ear" is found only here, Deuteronomy 21:4 , and 1 Samuel 8:12 . The noun "earing" occurs in Genesis 45:6 , and Exodus 34:21 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 30:25

streams. Hebrew. yiblei (from yabal = to bring, or conduct along). Occurs only here in the "former" portion, and only in Isaiah 44:4 , in the "latter" portion of Isaiah, where it is rendered "watercourses". App-79 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 30:27

Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. the name. See note on Psalms 20:1 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 30:28

breath = blast. Hebrew. ruach . See note on Isaiah 25:4 . people = peoples. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 30:29

when a holy solemnity is kept. Reference to Pentateuch. and the habitual keeping of the feasts there prescribed (Leviticus 23:2 , &c). See App-92 . holy. See note on Exodus 3:6 . the mountain of the LORD. See notes on Isaiah 2:3 , and Ezekiel 28:16 . mighty One = Rock. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:4 , Deuteronomy 32:15 , Deuteronomy 32:18 , Deuteronomy 32:30 , Deuteronomy 32:31 ). Compare Isaiah 26:4 . App-92 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 30:32

every place where the grounded staff, &c. = every stroke of the staff of doom, which, &c. tabrets = drums. See note on 1 Samuel 10:5 . Hebrew. toph, forming the Figure of speech Paronomasia with Tophet in next verse, for emphasis. shaking = tumult. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 30:33

Tophet = the place of burning. In the valley of Hinnom, the place where continual fires consumed the refuse of Jerusalem. Compare Revelation 19:20 ; Revelation 20:10 . the king = Moloch. See note on 1 Kings 11:7 . breath. Hebrew. neshamah ( App-16 ). See note on Isaiah 2:22 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 30:1

No one knows exactly when Isaiah wrote this chapter; but it was evidently shortly before Sennacherib's invasion of Judah in 701 B.C. Barnes dated it at "the same time as the previous chapter,"[1] which was dated by Dummelow "on the very eve of Sennacherib's invasion."[2] Jamieson and other scholars move the date about a decade earlier, "probably in the summer of 714 B.C."[3] It is not at all necessary to know the exact date. That the era just prior to the Sennacherib invasion is the correct... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 30:8

THE PERVERSITY OF JUDAH"Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for time to come forever and ever. For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of Jehovah; that say to the seers, See not, and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits, get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us."God instructed... read more

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