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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 28:1-8

Here, I. The prophet warns the kingdom of the ten tribes of the judgments that were coming upon them for their sins, which were soon after executed by the king of Assyria, who laid their country waste, and carried the people into captivity. Ephraim had his name from fruitfulness, their soil being very fertile and the products of it abundant and the best of the kind; they had a great many fat valleys (Isa. 28:1, 4), and Samaria, which was situated on a hill, was, as it were, on the head of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 28:2

Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one ,.... That is, a powerful king, with a mighty army, meaning Shalmaneser king of Assyria; whom the Lord had at his beck and command, and could use at his pleasure, as his instrument, to bring down the towering pride of Ephraim, and chastise him for his sensuality: which as a tempest of hail ; that beats down herbs and plants, and branches of trees, and men and beasts: and a destroying storm ; which carries all before it, blows down... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 28:3

The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet. Not only cast down with the hand, but trampled upon with the feet; showing their utter destruction, and the contempt with which they should be used; which, with their character, is repeated, to point out their sins, the cause of it, to denote the certainty of it, and that it might be taken notice of. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 28:4

And the glorious beauty which is on the head of the fat valley ,.... Meaning the riches and fruitfulness of the ten tribes, and especially of Samaria the head of them: shall be a fading flower ; as before declared, Isaiah 28:1 and here repeated to show the certainty of it, and to awaken their attention to it: and as the hasty fruit before the summer ; the first ripe fruit, that which is ripe before the summer fruits in common are. The Septuagint render it the first ripe fig; and... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 28:2

Behold the Lord hath a mighty and strong one "Behold the mighty one, the exceedingly strong one" - לאדני אמץ ammits ladonai , fortis Domino , i.e., fortissimmus, a Hebraism. For לאדני ladonai , to the Lord, thirty-eight MSS. Of Dr. Kennicott's and many of De Rossi's, with some of my own, and two editions, read ליהוה laihovah , to Jehovah. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 28:3

The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim "The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim" - I read עטרות ataroth , crowns, plural, to agree with the verb תרמסנה teramasnah , "shall be trodden down." read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 28:4

The hasty fruit before the summer "The early fruit before the summer" - "No sooner doth the boccore , (the early fig), draw near to perfection in the middle or latter end of June, than the kermez or summer fig begins to be formed, though it rarely ripens before August; about which time the same tree frequently throws out a third crop, or the winter fig, as we may call it. This is usually of a much longer shape and darker complexion than the kermez , hanging and ripening upon the tree... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:1-3

The drunkards of Ephraim. While Scripture, from first to last, upholds the moderate use of wine as cheering and "making glad the heart of man," it is distinct and severe in its denunciations of drunkenness and unrestrained revelry. The son who was "stubborn and rebellious, a glutton and a drunkard," was to be brought by his parents before the ciders under the Jewish Law, and "stoned with stones that he might die" ( Deuteronomy 21:20 , Deuteronomy 21:21 ). Nabal's drunkenness and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:1-4

A WARNING TO SAMARIA . The prophet has now east his eagle glance over the whole world and over all time. He has denounced woe upon all the principal nations of the earth (Isaiah 13-23.), glanced at the destruction of the world itself ( Isaiah 24:17-20 ), and sung songs over the establishment of Christ's kingdom, and the ingathering of the nations into it (Isaiah 25-27.). In the present chapter he returns to the condition of things in his own time and among his own people. After a brief... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:1-6

Condition of Samaria. I. DENUNCIATION OF WOE . The condition of Samaria was like that of Jerusalem. And judgment must first fall upon Samaria, and then upon Jerusalem ( Isaiah 8:6 ; cf. Micah 1:6 ). Drunkenness is named," not as the root of the national evil, but rather as its flower. The appalling thing is that when all is on the point of collapsing, those responsible for the state should be given up to careless self-indulgence" (Cheyne). Samaria is described as the city of the... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 28:1-8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 28:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 28:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 28:4

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 28:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 28:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 28:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:1-3

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:1-4

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:1-6

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