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Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Isaiah 3:1-12

an Exhortation to Humility and Reverence Isaiah 2:12-22 ; Isaiah 3:1-12 If men will not repent, they must suffer. If they will not voluntarily put away their idols and sorceries, they will be compelled to do so in the anguish of their disappointment with their helpless deities, Isaiah 2:20 . Nothing in that great civilization would be spared. High towers, fenced walls, ships, treasures, armor-all would perish. Their vaunted faith in man would cease. Life would become elemental in its... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 3:1-26

The prophet now deals with judgment in greater detail, and shows how it will proceed against the rulers and against the women. The judgment in the case of the rulers is to be the destruction of true government and the substitution of incompetent administration, with chaos necessarily resulting. The reason for this, so far as the people are concerned, is the open sin into which they have been led by evil rulers. So far as Jehovah is concerned, He has the cause of the people in His heart, and is... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 3:1-9

All that Jerusalem/Judah Depend On Is To Be Taken Away So That Society Will Disintegrate Towards Even More Evil (Isaiah 3:1-9 a). Having covered world judgment Isaiah now brings it home to the local situation. He points out that things are about to go from bad to worse in Judah and Jerusalem even in the near future, and that days of disaster are coming on them which will result in loss of leadership, removal of those who are the stays of society, and the general disintegration of authority,... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 3:1-12

Isaiah 3:1-2 Kings : . Judah to be Punished with Anarchy.— The date is uncertain. That it was early in the reign of Ahaz is a dubious inference from Isaiah 3:12. The pillars of society will be removed, and control will thus be thrown into the hands of young, inexperienced upstarts. Social distinctions will be swept away, age and rank no longer secure respect. Tired of the anarchy, the people will offer the headship of their district to one whom they imagine equal to it, apparently because he... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 3:1

Behold; look upon it as a thing as certain as if it were already done. The stay and the staff; all the supports of their state and church. The whole stay of bread, called elsewhere the staff of bread; whereby is understood either, 1. The nourishing power of bread, which wholly depend upon God’s blessing; or rather, 2. Bread itself, as this phrase is understood, Leviticus 26:26; Psalms 105:16; Ezekiel 4:16, and directly explained, Ezekiel 5:16, bread which is the staff of life. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 3:1-3

THE DEATH OF STATESMEN(Funeral Sermon for the Right Hon. George Canning.)Isaiah 3:1; Isaiah 3:3. For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah … the counsellor, … and the eloquent orator.By the death of a great statesman at the head of a government, we are reminded.—I. Of the weight of government in a fallen world. It is a burden that has crushed many, and has brought them to an untimely grave. II. Of the weakness of the shoulders of mortal men. The... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 3:1-26

Chapter 3For, behold, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, the mighty men, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, the captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counselor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator. And I will give children to be their princes, and the babes shall rule over them ( Isaiah 3:1-4 ).And so God is speaking... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 3:1-26

Isaiah 3:1 . Behold, the Lord doth take away from Jerusalem the whole stay of bread. This threatening is understood of the Chaldean invasion in the reign of Jechoniah, and after the death of king Josiah. The prophet, as in the preseding chapter, continues to speak of future times. Habakkuk is considered as referring to the same invasion, when he says, Though the figtree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be on the vine, &c. Habakkuk 3:17. Isaiah 3:2 . The mighty man. The soldier... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 3:1-3

Isaiah 3:1-3For behold the Lord . . . doth take away . . . the mighty man.- National leaders removedThe Jewish nation, at this time, may be considered as represented by an old building, ready to fall into ruin, to prevent which many props had been added. These supports, on which it leaned, that were derived the authority, the prudence and fortitude of its leading men, God threatens to remove; in consequence of which the State should as certainly become ruinous as a decayed building, when the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 3:1

Isa 3:1 For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, Ver. 1. For, behold. ] This is also part of the former sermon, though made the beginning of another chapter; for of our prophet that is some way true which Petrarch saith of Livy, viz., that he wrote many books, Quos in decades non ipse sed fastidiosa legentium scidit imperitia, which not himself, but others without any... read more

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