イザヤ書 17:5-9 JC

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 17:1-5

We have here the burden of Damascus; the Chaldee paraphrase reads it, The burden of the cup of the curse to drink to Damascus in; and, the ten tribes being in alliance, they must expect to pledge Damascus in this cup of trembling that is to go round. 1. Damascus itself, the head city of Syria, must be destroyed; the houses, it is likely, will be burnt, as least the walls, and gates, and fortifications demolished, and the inhabitants carried away captive, so that for the present it is taken... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 17:6-8

Mercy is here reserved, in a parenthesis, in the midst of judgment, for a remnant that should escape the common ruin of the kingdom of the ten tribes. Though the Assyrians took all the care they could that none should slip out of their net, yet the meek of the earth were hidden in the day of the Lord's anger, and had their lives given them for a prey and made comfortable to them by their retirement to the land of Judah, where they had the liberty of God's courts. 1. They shall be but a small... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 17:9-11

Here the prophet returns to foretel the woeful desolations that should be made in the land of Israel by the army of the Assyrians. 1. That the cities should be deserted. Even the strong cities, which should have protected the country, shall not be able to protect themselves: They shall be as a forsaken bough and an uppermost branch of an old tree, which has gone to decay, is forsaken of its leaves, and appears on the top of the tree, bare, and dry, and dead; so shall their strong cities look... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 17:5

And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn ,.... The "standing" corn, as in the Hebrew text: "and reapeth the ears with his arm"; or "his arm reaps the ears" F15 וזרעו שבלים יקצור "et brachium ejus spicas demeteret", Junius & Tremellius; "demetit", Piscator, &c.; ; that is, with one hand he gathers the standing corn into his fist, and then reaps it with his other arm; and just so it should be with the people of Israel: they were like a field of standing... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 17:6

Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it ,.... In Ephraim or Jacob; that is, in the ten tribes, a few of them should escape, a remnant should be saved; comparable, for the smallness of their number, to grapes that are gleaned after the vintage is got in: though Kimchi interprets it of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, who were but few, in comparison of the ten tribes, who were many; and Jarchi explains it of Hezekiah and his company, in the midst of Jerusalem, who were but few; and observes, that... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 17:7

At that day shall a man look to his Maker ,.... The one only living and true God, who has made him, and not he himself, nor any other creature; that is, such as are left, as before described, the remnant, according to the election of grace; these shall look to God for help and assistance, for supply, support, and protection; and to Christ particularly, who is the Maker of all things, without whom was not any thing made that is made, for all spiritual blessings; for righteousness and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 17:8

And he shall not took to the altars, the work of his hands ,.... That is, to altars erected to the worship of idols, which are both the works of men's hands, so as to serve at them, and sacrifice upon them. Kimchi observes, that the latter clause is not to be understood as belonging to the former, but as distinct from it, and signifies idols which men have made; otherwise all altars, even the altars of God, were the works of men, which yet it was right to look unto, and offer sacrifice upon;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 17:9

In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch ,.... Meaning the strong cities of Ephraim or Jacob, the ten tribes, which should be forsaken of their inhabitants; having fled from before the enemy, or being slain or carried captive; like a bough of a tree, that is forsaken stripped of its leaves, and an uppermost branch of a tree that is dead and dry, and has nothing on it: which they left ; or "as they left", or "were left": because of the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 17:5

As when the harvestman gathereth "As when one gathereth" - That is, the king of Assyria shall sweep away the whole body of the people, as the reaper strippeth off the whole crop of corn; and the remnant shall be no more in proportion than the scattered ears left to the gleaner. The valley of Rephaim near Jerusalem was celebrated for its plentiful harvest; it is here used poetically for any fruitful country. One MS., and one ancient edition, has באסף beesoph , "In gathering," instead of ... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 17:8

The altars, the work of his hands "The altars dedicated to the work of his hands" - The construction of the words, and the meaning of the sentence, in this place are not obvious; all the ancient Versions, and most of the modern, have mistaken it. The word מעשה maaseh , "the work," stands in regimine with מזבחות mizbechoth , "altars," not in opposition to it; it means the, altars of the work of their hand; that is of the idols, which are the work of their hands. Thus Kimchi has... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 17:1-5

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 17:6-8

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 17:9-11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 17:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 17:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 17:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 17:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 17:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 17:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 17:8

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