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Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 28:23-29

A call for repentance 28:23-29How would the leaders of Judah respond? Would they continue in their chosen course of action and so suffer the fate of the Northern Kingdom, or would they repent and experience a milder judgment? Isaiah ended this "woe" by illustrating the alternatives and urging repentance (cf. chs. 5-6)."Isaiah here proves himself a master of the mashal [proverb]. In the usual tone of a mashal song, he first of all claims the attention of his audience as a teacher of wisdom."... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 28:24-26

A wise farmer follows a plan in his plowing and planting so each type of seed will grow best. Some seed requires planting under the ground and other seed on top. God teaches the farmer this discrimination just as God Himself practices discrimination in dealing with people. Earlier in this chapter Isaiah offered a promise of blessing (Isaiah 28:5-6), but later he promised blasting (Isaiah 28:14-22). God would use both instruments to deal with His people. Using both was not inconsistent. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 28:1-24

Warnings to JudahThese chapters refer to the state of affairs during the reign of Hezekiah, when Palestine was threatened by Assyria, and an influential party in Judah favoured resistance, relying on the support of Egypt; a line of policy consistently opposed by Isaiah. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 28:1-29

This chapter must be assigned (Isaiah 28:1) to a date prior to the capture of Samaria by the Assyrians (722 b.c.) and fall of the northern kingdom.1-6. Samaria’s luxury and self-indulgence pave the way to ruin. 7-10. Judah likewise is given up to indulgence and heeds not the prophet’s warning, 11-13. Therefore Jehovah will teach the people by means of foreign invasion and disaster. 14-22. Judah’s safety lies not in faithless diplomacy, but in trust in Jehovah. 23-29. A parable of Jehovah’s way... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 28:23

(23) Give ye ear . . .—The words remind us of the style of the “wisdom” books of the Old Testament (Proverbs 2:1; Proverbs 4:1; Proverbs 5:1; Psalms 34:11) in which Isaiah had been trained. Isaiah is about to set before those who have ears to hear a parable which he does not interpret, and which will, therefore, task all their energies. The idea that lies at the root of the parable is like that of Matthew 16:2-4, that men fail to apply in discerning the signs of the times the wisdom which they... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 28:24

(24) Doth the plowman plow all day . . .?—Better, every day. Ploughing represents naturally, as in Jeremiah 4:3, the preparatory discipline by which the spiritual soil is rendered fit for the sower’s work. It is a means, and not an end, and is, therefore, in its very nature but for a season. To a nation passing through this stage, Assyrian invaders scoring their long furrows visibly on the surface of the land, the parable gave the hope that this was preparing the way for the seed-time of a... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Isaiah 28:1-29

The Verifying Faculty Isaiah 28:12 The Bible is always talking in our mother tongue. The oldest and greatest of the Prophets spoke in language which almost children can understand and appreciate. Take such words as 'weary'; the child knows what it means when it sees its father returning from the fields and stretching himself in token of fatigue. And 'rest,' the little word needs no translation; and 'refreshing,' the very word which an apostle uses in later times when he speaks of 'times of... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 28:1-29

CHAPTER VIIIGOD’S COMMONPLACEABOUT 725 B.C.Isaiah 28:1-29THE twenty-eighth chapter of the Book of Isaiah is one of the greatest of his prophecies. It is distinguished by that regal versatility of style, which places its author at the head of Hebrew writers. Keen analyses of character, realistic contrasts between sin and judgment, clever retorts and epigrams, rapids of scorn, and "a spate" of judgment, but for final issue a placid stream of argument banked by sweet parable-such are the literary... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Isaiah 28:1-29

3. The Six Woes of the Prophet, Judgment Ruins and Restoration Glories to Come (28-35) CHAPTER 28 The First Woe and the Message of Assurance 1. Ephraim addressed (Isaiah 28:1-6 ) 2. Jerusalem equally corrupt and guilty (Isaiah 28:7-8 ) 3. The prophet mocked (Isaiah 28:9-10 ) The prophet’s answer (Isaiah 28:11-13 ) 4. Their covenant with death (Isaiah 28:14-15 ) 5. The message of assurance (Isaiah 28:16-22 ) 6. How Jehovah judges (Isaiah 28:23-29 ) The first woe is directed... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Isaiah 28:1-29

JUDAH AND EGYPT These chapters make a unit since, with the exception of the opening part of chapter 28, they chiefly deal with Judah’s futile alliance with Egypt. Isaiah 28:0 Israel, or the kingdom of the ten tribes, is addressed under the name of her leading tribe “Ephraim” (Isaiah 28:1 ). Her great sin is strong drink. “The head of the fat valley” is Samaria the capital, which is soon to be overthrown by the Assyrians (Isaiah 28:2-4 ). Observe, however, the usual forecast of the end of the... read more