Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 29:1-4
Judah’s religious hypocrisy 29:1-4 read more
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Thomas Constable
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 29:2
The Lord would bring the city into distress, lamentation, and mourning. It would become like an altar hearth in that it would become a place of death."If we treat lightly the sacrifices God has made available (and in the Christian era, The Sacrifice) then we ourselves become the sacrifice. If we will not accept God’s substitution, we must carry the burden of our own sin (Hebrews 10:26-27; Romans 8:11-13)." [Note: Oswalt, p. 527.] read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 29:3
Yahweh would bring Jerusalem under siege. David had camped there (Isaiah 29:1), but God would camp there too. This probably refers to His use of Sennacherib and the Assyrians for this purpose in 701 B.C., though other armies also besieged Jerusalem (cf. Daniel 1:1). read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 29:1-24
This chapter and the three which follow and complete the section, evidently belong to the very eve of Sennacherib’s invasion of Judah in701 b.c.1-8. Jerusalem is besieged and at the last extremity, but the enemy shall be suddenly discomfited. 9-24. Judah’s infatuation at this crisis, contrasted with the very different and teachable spirit that shall mark its future.1. RV ’Ho Ariel.’ Ariel is a symbolic name for Jerusalem, meaning either (1) lion of God, i.e. hero (2 Samuel 23:20), the lion... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 29:1
XXIX.(1) Woe to Ariel, to Ariel.—The name belongs to the same group of poetic synonyms as Rahab (Psalms 87:4; Psalms 89:10) and the Valley of Vision (Psalms 22:1). It may have been coined by Isaiah himself. It may have been part of the secret language of the prophetic schools, as Sheshach stood for Babel (Jeremiah 25:26), Rahab for Egypt (Isaiah 51:9), and in the language of later Rabbis, Edom, and in that of the Apocalypse, Babel, for Rome (Revelation 17:5). Modern language has, it will be... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 29:2
(2) And it shall be unto me as Ariel.—Better, But she (the city) shall be unto me as Ariel. That name would not falsify itself. In the midst of all her “heaviness and sorrow,” Jerusalem should still be as “the lion of God,” or, taking the other meaning, as the “altar-hearth” of God. (Comp. Ezekiel 43:15.) read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 29:3
(3) I will encamp against thee . . .—The words describe the strategy of an Eastern siege, as we see it in the Assyrian sculptures—the mound raised against the walls of the city, the battering-ram placed upon the mound, and brought to bear upon the walls. (See Jeremiah 33:4; Ezekiel 4:2.) read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 29:1-24
CHAPTER XIIARIEL, ARIELABOUT 703 B.C.Isaiah 29:1-24IN 705 Sargon, King of Assyria, was murdered, and Sennacherib, his second son, succeeded him. Before the new ruler mounted the throne, the vast empire, which his father had consolidated, broke into rebellion, and down to the borders of Egypt cities and tribes declared themselves again independent. Sennacherib attacked his problem with Assyrian promptitude. There were two forces, to subdue which at the beginning made the reduction of the rest... read more
Arno Clemens Gaebelein
Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Isaiah 29:1-24
CHAPTER 29 The Second Woe Against Ariel and the Third Woe 1. The fall of Ariel (Jerusalem) predicted (Isaiah 29:1-4 ) 2. Their enemies dealt with by Jehovah (Isaiah 29:5-8 ) 3. The people’s condition: Blinded and religious formalists (Isaiah 29:9-14 ) 4. The third woe (Isaiah 29:15-16 ) 5. In that Day: joy and blessing for the meek and iniquity punished (Isaiah 29:17-24 ) Ariel means “the lion of God.” It is one of the names of Jerusalem. A great siege of Jerusalem is predicted.... read more
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Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 29:1
Isaiah addressed this oracle to Ariel (lit. altar hearth, cf. Ezekiel 43:15-16). Another meaning, "lion of God" (cf. Isaiah 31:4; Genesis 49:9; 2 Samuel 23:20; 1 Kings 10:19-20; 1 Chronicles 11:22), was probably not intended here since Isaiah described Ariel as the place were Israel’s religious festivals took place. Clearly Ariel refers to Jerusalem, the city where David set up his headquarters (cf. 2 Samuel 5:9), and Mount Zion (Isaiah 29:8), the site of Judah’s worship."Jerusalem prides... read more