Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 7:18
18. hiss—whistle, to bring bees to settle (see on Isaiah 5:26). fly—found in numbers about the arms of the Nile and the canals from it (Isaiah 19:5-7; Isaiah 23:3), here called "rivers." Hence arose the plague of flies (Isaiah 23:3- :). Figurative, for numerous and troublesome foes from the remotest parts of Egypt, for example, Pharaoh-nechoh. bee— (Deuteronomy 1:44; Psalms 118:12). As numerous in Assyria as the fly in marshy Egypt. Sennacherib, Esar-haddon, and Nebuchadnezzar fulfilled this... read more
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 7:19
Isaiah 7:19. In the desolate valleys, &c.— In the waste valleys, and in the holes of the rock, and upon all thorny grounds, and upon all the well-watered places. Schultens. read more