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Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 20:1

Isaiah 20:1. In the year that Tartan came, &c.— We have in this chapter an addition to the 5th discourse, in which the prophet is said to have shewn himself, by the divine command, naked and barefooted to the Jews, to teach them by this sign, which also he explains, that the Egyptians and Ethiopians, on whose assistance the Ephraimites and Jews, together with the Philistines, confided in their distress, should be afflicted by the Assyrian king Sargon, and should be led away captive, naked,... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 20:2

Isaiah 20:2. Spake the Lord by Isaiah, &c.— Or, To Isaiah, &c. By sackcloth is meant the hairy garment usually worn by prophets. By naked is meant, no more than that the prophet went without his upper garment: It was customary for captives to go about in this manner. See 1 Samuel 19:24. 2 Samuel 6:14-15.Matthew 3:4; Matthew 3:4. This action was agreeable to the mode of instruction made use of in those times; and, as it was intended to excite the attention of the Israelites, was not only... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 20:1

1. Tartan—probably the same general as was sent by Sennacherib against Hezekiah ( :-). GESENIUS takes "Tartan" as a title. Ashdod—called by the Greeks Azotus (Acts 8:40); on the Mediterranean, one of the "five" cities of the Philistines. The taking of it was a necessary preliminary to the invasion of Egypt, to which it was the key in that quarter, the Philistines being allies of Egypt. So strongly did the Assyrians fortify it that it stood a twenty-nine years' siege, when it was retaken by the... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 20:2

2. by—literally, "by the hand of" (compare Ezekiel 3:14). sackcloth—the loose outer garment of coarse dark hair-cloth worn by mourners (Ezekiel 3:14- :) and by prophets, fastened at the waist by a girdle (Matthew 3:4; 2 Kings 1:8; Zechariah 13:4). naked—rather, "uncovered"; he merely put off the outer sackcloth, retaining still the tunic or inner vest (1 Samuel 19:24; Amos 2:16; John 21:7); an emblem to show that Egypt should be stripped of its possessions; the very dress of Isaiah was a silent... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 20:1-2

The year in view was 711 B.C. Like Isaiah 7:1, Isaiah 20:1 introduces the historical setting for the events that follow. For four years, Egypt had encouraged the city-states of western Palestine to resist Assyrian aggression-with the promise of assistance. In 713 B.C., Ashdod, the northernmost Philistine town that stood about 35 miles west of Jerusalem, had rebelled, and Assyria replaced her king, Ahimiti (Azuri), with another, a man named Yamani (Jaman). Rebellion continued, however, and pleas... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 20:1-6

Egypt’s Captivity symbolisedThis chapter is assigned in the title to the time when Sargon besieged Ashdod (711 b.c.). The Philistine city was at that time the centre of revolt. Sargon interposed and set up a new king, but the people were dissatisfied and substituted another; the siege and capture of Ashdod by the Assyrians followed. It seems that the Palestinian peoples who revolted against Assyria relied upon the support of Egypt. Isaiah, by putting on captive’s garb, and walking the streets... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 20:1

XX.(1) In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod.—Better, the Tartan. The word was an official title borne by the generalissimo of the Assyrian armies, who was next in authority to the king. He may, or may not, have been the same with the officer of the same rank who appears in 2 Kings 18:17 as sent by Sennacherib to Jerusalem.When Sargon the king of Assyria sent him.—Much light has been thrown by the Assyrian inscriptions on the events connected with this king. Prior to that discovery, there... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 20:2

(2) Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins.—Against these schemes Isaiah was prompted to prophesy in act as well as words. Month by month, for three whole years, he was seen in the streets of Jerusalem as one who was already as a prisoner of war, ready to be led into an ignominious exile. The “sackcloth” was the “rough garment” which, like Elijah (2 Kings 1:8) and John the Baptist, the prophets habitually wore (Zechariah 13:4), and the “nakedness” was confined to the laying aside this... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 20:1

-29BOOK 3PROPHECIES FROM THE ACCESSION OF HEZEKIAH TO THE DEATH OF SARGON727-705 B.C.THE prophecies with which we have been engaged (chapters 2-10:4) fall either before or during the great Assyrian invasion of Syria, undertaken in 734-732 by Tiglath-pileser II, at the invitation of King Ahaz. Nobody has any doubt about that. But when we ask what prophecies of Isaiah come next in chronological order, we raise a storm of answers. We are no longer on the sure ground we have been enjoying.Under the... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 20:1-6

32CHAPTER XVIIISAIAH TO THE FOREIGN NATIONS736-702 B.C.Isaiah 14:24-32; Isaiah 15:1-9; Isaiah 16:1-14; Isaiah 17:1-14; Isaiah 18:1-7; Isaiah 19:1-25; Isaiah 20:1-6; Isaiah 21:1-17; Isaiah 23:1-18THE centre of the Book of Isaiah (chapters 13 to 23) is occupied by a number of long and short prophecies which are a fertile source of perplexity to the conscientious reader of the Bible. With the exhilaration of one who traverses plain roads and beholds vast prospects, he has passed through the... read more

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 20:1

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 20:2

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 20:1

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 20:2

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 20:1-2

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 20:1-6

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 20:1

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 20:2

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 20:1

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 20:1-6

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