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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 30:33

For Tophet - The same idea is conveyed in this verse as in the preceding, but under another form, and with a new illustration. The sense is, that the army of the Assyrians would be completely destroyed, as if it were a large pile of wood in the valley of Hinnom that should be fired by the breath of God. The word (תפתה tâpeteh) with the ה (h) paragogic), denotes properly what causes loathing or abhorrence; that which produces disgust and vomiting (from the Chaldee תיף tūph to spit out); Job... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 30:29-31

Isaiah 30:29-31. Ye shall have a song, &c. You shall have occasion of great joy, and of singing songs of praise for your stupendous deliverance from that formidable enemy; as in the night, &c. He mentions the night, either because the Jewish feasts began in the evening, and were celebrated with great joy during a part of the night, as well as on the following day; or because he has a particular respect to the solemnity of the passover, in which they spent some considerable part of... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 30:32

Isaiah 30:32. Where the grounded staff shall pass Instead of משׂה מוסדה , the grounded, or founded staff, of which, he says, no one yet has been able to make any tolerable sense. Bishop Lowth, on the authority of two MSS, (one of them ancient,) reads משׂה מופרה , the staff of correction, which Le Clerc also supposes to be the true reading. The bishop, therefore, translates the clause thus: And it shall be, that wherever shall pass the rod of correction, which Jehovah shall lay... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 30:33

Isaiah 30:33. For Tophet is ordained of old “Tophet is a valley very near to Jerusalem, to the southeast, called also the valley of Hinnom, or Gehenna; where the Canaanites, and afterward the Israelites, sacrificed their children, by making them pass through the fire; that is, by burning them in the fire, to Moloch.” It is supposed to have been called Tophet, from the drums, timbrels, or tabrets, which sounded there, to drown the cries of the children thus inhumanly murdered: see... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 30:1-33

The folly of relying on Egypt (30:1-33)All Isaiah’s warnings against an alliance with Egypt are in vain. As he learns that a group of Judean representatives is on its way to Egypt, he points out again how disastrous this alliance will prove to be. Judah’s reliance on Egypt is against God’s will and in the end will bring only disgrace upon Judah (30:1-5).Isaiah pictures the dangerous journey, as a caravan of donkeys and camels carry Judah’s payment through the dry southern region of Judah... 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

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 30:30-31

Isaiah 30:30-31. And the Lord shall cause, &c.— The prophet resumes the thread of his narration from Isa 30:28 and having hinted, not obscurely, in the preceding verse, the time of the execution of the judgment, he describes in the present verse the manner of it; which, from this and the parallel passage, ch. Isa 29:6 we conceive to be thus; that it should come to pass, that a mighty and terrible temper should be raised up by God, in which thunders, lightnings, showers, hail, and scattering... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 30:32-33

Isaiah 30:32-33. And in every place— The prophet here again, as in the 29th verse, subjoins the consequence of the fall of the Assyrian. The sum of the passage is, that in every place which the Assyrian, passing with his formidable army, had left desolate, or where he had rested with his army, his overthrow should be celebrated with the sound of tabrets and harps; since God himself, going forth against the Assyrians, should in such a manner shake and disperse them, that they should utterly... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 30:30

30. Jehovah's "glorious voice," raised against the enemy ( :-), is again mentioned here, in contrast to the music ( :-) with which His people shall come to worship Him. lighting down of . . . arm— (Isaiah 30:32; Psalms 38:2). The descent of His arm in striking. scattering—namely, a blast that scatters, or an "inundation" [MAURER]. read more

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