Isaiah 2:2-4

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 2:2

Isaiah 2:2. And Or rather, now, it shall come to pass in the last days The times of the Messiah, which are always spoken of by the prophets as the last days, because they are the last times and state of the church, Christ’s institutions being to continue to the end of the world. See Joel 2:28, compared with Acts 2:17; Micah 4:1, compared with Hebrews 1:1; 1 Peter 1:20. The Jews, it must be observed, divided the times or succession of the world into three ages or periods: the first,... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 2:3

Isaiah 2:3. And many people shall go Shall not only have some weak desires of going, but shall take pains, and actually go; and say, Come, &c. Yea, such shall be their zeal, that they shall not only go themselves, but shall persuade and press others to go with them. And we will walk in his paths Thus they show the truth of their conversion, by their hearty desire to be instructed in the way of worshipping and serving God acceptably, and by their firm purpose of practising the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 2:4

Isaiah 2:4. He shall judge among the nations He shall set up and exercise his authority, in and over all nations, not only giving laws to them, as other rulers do, but doing that which no others can do, convincing their consciences, changing their hearts, and ordering their lives; and shall rebuke many people By the power of his word, compared to a two- edged sword in Scripture, and by the grace of his Spirit, convincing the world of sin: as also by the remarkable judgments which he will... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 2:1-22

Jerusalem as it should be and as it is (2:1-22)God’s people always looked for the day when Jerusalem would be the religious centre of the world, where people of all nations would go to be taught the ways of God. In that day there would be no more war, but contentment and prosperity (2:1-4). (A note on the new Jerusalem is included in the introduction to Chapters 40-66, where the subject of Jerusalem’s future glory is considered more fully.) Such hope for the future is all the more reason why... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 2:2

in the last days: i.e. the days of Messiah. mountain of the LORD'S house. Psalms 24:3 . Compare Psalms 68:15 . See note on Ezekiel 28:16 . the LORD'S = Jehovah's. App-4 . all nations. Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Genus) = many from all nations. flow = stream. Same word as in Jeremiah 31:12 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 2:3

people = peoples. go up. Note the Figure of speech Zeugma . The second verb must be supplied (enter into). to the house = "[and enter] into the house", &c The "and" is read in some codices, with two early printed editions, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate. God. Hebrew. Elohim. paths. Hebrew. orah Occurs in the "former" portion here, Isaiah 3:12 , &c. and in the "latter" portion, Isaiah 40:14 ; Isaiah 41:3 . the law = law (no Art.) See note on Isaiah 1:10 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 2:4

swords. spears. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of the Part), for all kinds of weapons; while plowshares and pruning-hooks put by the same Figure, for all implements of peace. The signs are Figures, but the things signified are literal. read more

Thomas Coke

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

Isaiah 2:2. And it shall come to pass— We have in this period an august and fine image of the kingdom of Jesus Christ. It contains, first, a proposition of a certain admirable event in future time, in which the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be exalted above all mountains, and nations shall flow to it from all parts; Isaiah 2:2-3. Secondly, A declaration of the cause of that conflux, the divine instruction delivered from this mountain;—end of the third verse. Thirdly, Its consequences;... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

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

2. Same as :-. As Micah prophesied in Jotham's reign, and Isaiah in Uzziah's, Micah rests on Isaiah, whom he confirms: not vice versa. HENGSTENBERG on slight grounds makes Micah 4:1 the original. last days—that is, Messiah's: especially the days yet to come, to which all prophecy hastens, when "the house of the God of Jacob," namely, at Jerusalem, shall be the center to which the converted nations shall flock together (Matthew 13:32; Luke 2:31; Luke 2:32; Acts 1:6; Acts 1:7); where "the... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 2:3

3. If the curse foretold against Israel has been literally fulfilled, so shall the promised blessing be literal. We Gentiles must not, while giving them the curse, deny them their peculiar blessing by spiritualizing it. The Holy Ghost shall be poured out for a general conversion then (Jeremiah 50:5; Zechariah 8:21; Zechariah 8:23; Joel 2:28). from Jerusalem— (Joel 2:28- :) an earnest of the future relations of Jerusalem to Christendom (Romans 11:12; Romans 11:15). read more

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 2:2

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 2:3

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 2:4

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 2:1-22

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 2:2

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 2:3

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 2:4

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

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

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 2:3

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