Isaiah 20:6 NLT,NIV,ESV

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 20:1-6

Chapter 20Now in chapter 20, Isaiah predicts that Assyria is going to waste both Egypt and Ethiopia.In the year that Tartan ( Isaiah 20:1 )Which is the title which means the commander in chief. Tartan, the commander in chief.came unto Ashdod ( Isaiah 20:1 ),One of the major cities of the Philistines. It is now a seaport city of Israel.(when the commander in chief of the forces of Assyria under Sargon) came to Ashdod, and took it; At the same time the LORD spoke by Isaiah the prophet, saying, Go... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 20:1-6

Isaiah 20:1 . Tartan is mentioned as the general-in-chief to Sennacherib, when he summoned Jerusalem. 2 Kings 18:17. Sargon is supposed to be one of Sennacherib’s names; for kings assumed new names on the acquisition of fresh laurels. Jerome on this place says, that Sennacherib had seven names, a circumstance which very much confuses the certainty, and embarrases the chronology of ancient history. Here we find that the terrors of his conquests spread to the isles of Greece, as in Isaiah... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 20:6

Isa 20:6 And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such [is] our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape? Ver. 6. And the inhabitant of this isle shall say, &c. ] Judea, though part of the continent, is here called an isle or island, whereas it was indeed an inland; (1.) Because it was bounded on the west with the Midland Sea, and on the east with the lake of Gennesaret; (2.) Because it was beset with many... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Isaiah 20:6

isle: or, country, Job 22:30, Jeremiah 47:4 whither: Isaiah 28:17, Isaiah 30:1-Judges :, Isaiah 30:15, Isaiah 30:16, Isaiah 31:1-Leviticus :, Job 6:20 and how: Matthew 23:33, 1 Thessalonians 5:3, Hebrews 2:3 Reciprocal: Isaiah 10:3 - And what Isaiah 30:2 - walk Isaiah 30:5 - General Isaiah 36:6 - General Jeremiah 4:30 - And when Jeremiah 5:31 - and what Jeremiah 22:20 - and cry Jeremiah 46:25 - and all Ezekiel 29:6 - a staff Zechariah 9:5 - for Philemon 1:15 - General read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 20:6

And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?Of the country — Of this land, in which the prophet was, and to whose inhabitants, these words were uttered.Such — So vain is our hope placed upon such a people as are unable to deliver themselves. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 20:6

6. Of this isle This coastland from Gaza to Phenicia, and northward, how insignificant this compared with the thousand miles up the Nile covered by the great powers of Egypt and Ethiopia combined, on which Judah depended for help. Judah can now see her land all open as a foraging highway region for the conquering Assyrians, who are only too ready to take revenge for her alliance with the conquered countries. Well may the people cry out, How shall we escape? “We?” “We know the barbarities... read more