E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 20:6
isle = sea coast, or coast land. See note on Isaiah 11:11 read more
Isaiah 20
E.W. Bullinger
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 20:1
THE BURDEN OF EGYPTAlthough this chapter has the same subject as the previous one, it came at a later date and was attended by different circumstances. There are several things of particular interest in these brief verses: (1) there is the three-year witness of Isaiah's going naked and barefoot; (2) there is the only reference to Sargon in the Old Testament; and (3) the absolute promise of God to Judah of their deliverance from this particular threat of the Assyrians.Our title here mentions... read more
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 20:2
"At that time Jehovah spake by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put thy shoe from off thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.""Sackcloth was regarded as the appropriate dress for prophets; it was made of the coarse hair of the goat."[5] As for the instruction here to walk naked and barefoot, it is a mistake to think that Isaiah was totally nude. Hailey's quotation from Delitzsch has this: "What Isaiah was directed to do was simply... read more
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 20:3
"And Jehovah said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia; so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered to the shame of Egypt."Here again we have an example of God's built-in proof of the prior existence of predictive prophecies. Even the wildest imagination cannot suppose that Isaiah was... read more
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 20:5
"And they shall be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory."Even in Nahum's account of the fall of Egypt in the siege of No-amon, the alliance with Ethiopia was mentioned as one of the bulwarks upon which the doomed nation relied in vain for victory (Nahum 3:9).One of the significant things not previously noted in this chapter is God's reference to Isaiah as "my servant" in Isaiah 20:3. "Isaiah shares this honorable title with a select few of... read more
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 20:6
"And the inhabitant of this coast-land shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and we, how shall we escape."Here is the Lord's prophecy through Isaiah of what the people of Judah shall say when they see what is going to happen to Ashdod. To paraphrase: Now, just look at what has happened to the powers we thought might be able to help us; where shall we turn for help? Judah's only hope was the Lord; and thanks to... read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 20
CHAP. XX. A type prefiguring the shameful captivity of Egypt and Ethiopia. Before Christ 714. read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 20:1
Isaiah 20:1. In the year that Tartan came, &c.— We have in this chapter an addition to the 5th discourse, in which the prophet is said to have shewn himself, by the divine command, naked and barefooted to the Jews, to teach them by this sign, which also he explains, that the Egyptians and Ethiopians, on whose assistance the Ephraimites and Jews, together with the Philistines, confided in their distress, should be afflicted by the Assyrian king Sargon, and should be led away captive, naked,... read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 20:2
Isaiah 20:2. Spake the Lord by Isaiah, &c.— Or, To Isaiah, &c. By sackcloth is meant the hairy garment usually worn by prophets. By naked is meant, no more than that the prophet went without his upper garment: It was customary for captives to go about in this manner. See 1 Samuel 19:24. 2 Samuel 6:14-15.Matthew 3:4; Matthew 3:4. This action was agreeable to the mode of instruction made use of in those times; and, as it was intended to excite the attention of the Israelites, was not only... read more
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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 20:5
expectation. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), for the help expected from Egypt. Egypt their glory. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), for the Egyptians, in whom they gloried. read more