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James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 19:23

ISRAEL A UNITING BOND‘In that day there shall be a highway out of Egypt into Assyria.’ Isaiah 19:23 I. In the prophet’s view the three ancient foes, Egypt, Assyria, and Israel, are to be friends and allies, a blessing to all the earth, because they themselves have been blessed by God. Assyria and Egypt have passed away, and neither ever became worshippers of the true God. How then are we to understand this prophecy? I think that in this prophecy we have to distinguish between the religious... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 19:21

‘And Yahweh will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know Yahweh in that day. Yes they will worship with sacrifice and oblation, and will vow a vow to Yahweh and will perform it.’ The essence of this is conversion to Yahweh, leaving behind their own gods. They will know and acknowledge Yahweh. They will come before Him in worship and praise. They will be committed to Him and vow to Him and perform their vows. Their lives will be wholly His. No doubt Isaiah’s hearers were incredulous. The... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 19:22

‘And Yahweh will smite Egypt, smiting and healing, and they will return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated of them, and he will heal them.’ This summarises all that has gone before in the chapter. Yahweh will smite Egypt, but in the end it is that He might heal. This is at the root of all God’s activity in the world. In microcosm it is the picture of world history. He has smitten that He might heal. read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 19:23

‘In that day there will be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian will come to Egypt, and the Egyptian to Assyria, and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.’ In Isaiah’s day, and in the conceptions of Judah, there were two great nations, one to the north, Assyria, and one to the south, Egypt (to the east was desert and to the west the sea). They could be seen as representing all nations. Between them was bitter enmity. They were irreconcilable. The highway between them,... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 19:24-25

‘In that day will Israel be the third with Egypt, and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth, because Yahweh of hosts has blessed them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.’ Finally this is all related to Israel. Here Israel represents the future Israel made up of the remnants of both Judah and Israel. And with Egypt and Assyria they will be all one together in the worship of Yahweh. All will be a blessing to the world.... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 19:18-25

Isaiah 19:18-Lamentations : . Five cities in Egypt will speak Hebrew and swear fealty to Yahweh. One shall be called “ city of the sun.” There will be an altar to Yahweh in Egypt, and an obelisk to Him at its border, which shall witness for Him; and He will send a deliverer from their oppressors, so that they will worship Him with the animal and vegetable offerings and perform vows to Him. Then He will treat them as He had often treated Israel, smiting them for transgression, and healing them... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 19:21

Shall know the Lord; shall acknowledge, and love, and serve him; for words of knowledge in Scripture commonly include affection and practice, as hath been often observed. Shall do sacrifice and oblation; shall worship God spiritually; which yet is signified by typical phrases, as it is Malachi 1:11, and in many other places. And perform it; they shall not only profess and promise piety, but shall seriously and diligently practise it. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 19:22

He shall smite and heal it; God will afflict them by oppressors, Isaiah 19:20, and otherwise; and by those afflictions he will convert and save them. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 19:23

The Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; they who were implacable enemies one to another, and both to the church and people of God, shall now be reconciled and united together in the service of God, and love to his church. Shall serve, to wit, the Lord, who is easily understood from Isaiah 19:21,Isaiah 19:25. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 19:24

The third; the third party, to wit, in that sacred league, whereby all of them oblige themselves to God. With Egypt and with Assyria: these people are named because they were the most obstinate and malicious enemies to God’s church, and therefore in a special manner accursed by God; but they are here put synecdochically for all the Gentiles. Even a blessing: this is peculiar to Israel, who is not only a third party, as the others are, but is the most eminent and blessed of the three, as being... read more

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