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Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 30:1-33

Chapter 30Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not from me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to their sin ( Isaiah 30:1 ):Now these people, the judgment was coming. They knew that Assyria was marching. But rather than turning to God for counsel and for help, they were sending ambassadors down to Egypt to make a mutual defense pact with Egypt so that they could hire the Egyptians to come and to help defend them against... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 30:1-33

Isaiah 30:1-2 . Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me. It was a law among all ancient nations to undertake nothing of importance without consulting the gods. In this instance it had been neglected by the embassy that went to Egypt. That cover with a covering, or literally, as in Montanus, “that pour out a libation;” for all the ancients ratified their covenants or treaties with sacrifices. They came back with eclat; they returned so elated, and... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 30:5

Isa 30:5 They were all ashamed of a people [that] could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach. Ver. 5. They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them. ] Either could not or would not, for fear of provoking the Assyrian, so potent and formidable a prince. When Queen Elizabeth undertook to protect the Netherlanders against the Spaniard, the King of Sweden, hearing of it, said, that she had taken the crown off her own head and set it on the... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Isaiah 30:5

Isaiah 30:16, Isaiah 20:5, Isaiah 20:6, Isaiah 31:1-Leviticus :, Jeremiah 2:36 Reciprocal: Isaiah 30:3 - the strength Jeremiah 2:8 - do not read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 30:5

They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.They — Both the messengers, and they who sent them. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 30:5

5. They were all ashamed That is, the ambassadors, probably because their application for alliance and aid was not entertained. read more

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