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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 32:1-8

We have here the description of a flourishing kingdom. ?Blessed art thou, O land! when it is thus with thee, when kings, princes, and people, are in their places such as they should be.? It may be taken as a directory both to magistrates and subjects, what both ought to do, or as a panegyric to Hezekiah, who ruled well and saw something of the happy effects of his good government, and it was designed to make the people sensible how happy they were under his administration and how careful they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:2

And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest ,.... Or, "that man"; the King Messiah before mentioned; who had agreed to become man, was promised and prophesied of as such, had often appeared in a human form, was to be incarnate, and now is; though he is not a mere man; were he, he could not be what is here said of him, "as a hiding place, and covert from the wind and tempest", of his Father's wrath, raised by sin; and which all men are deserving of, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:3

And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim ,.... Not of the seers and prophets, or ministers of the word only, but of the righteous in general, as the Targum; even all such as are illuminated by the Spirit of God, who shall have a clear discerning of Gospel truths, behold with open face, with eyes unveiled, the glory of them, and of Christ in them, and not have their eyes covered, or such a dim obscure knowledge of them as under the law; and not only the watchmen shall see, eye to eye,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:4

The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge ,.... Such who have been hasty and precipitant, as the word F3 נמהרים "inconsideratorum", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "praecipatorum", Montanus. signifies; who have not given themselves time to consider what they have read or heard, or has been proposed unto them, and have hastily received every thing that has been suggested to them, especially by carnal sense and reason, shall now sit down, and coolly consider things, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 32:5

The vile person shall be no more called liberal ,.... Or "Nabal" (a fool) "shall no more be called Nadib" F5 לא יקרא עוד לנבל נדיב "Nabal non vocabitur Nadib", Gataker. (a prince); or have this name put upon him, or be advanced to honour and dignity, or be flattered with such a title, so unbecoming him. The sense seems to be, that, in Gospel times, such who are fools as to the knowledge of spiritual things, that have no spiritual and experimental knowledge of the truths of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 32:2

As the shadow of a great rock - The shadow of a great projecting rock is the most refreshing that is possible in a hot country, not only as most perfectly excluding the rays of the sun, but also as having in itself a natural coolness, which it reflects and communicates to every thing about it. Speluncaeque tegant, et saxea procubet umbra . Virg. Georg. 3:145. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 32:3

And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim "And him the eyes of those that see shall regard" - For ולא velo , and not, Le Clerc reads ולו velo , and to him, of which mistake the Masoretes acknowledge there are fifteen instances; and many more are reckoned by others. The removal of the negative restores to the verb its true and usual sense. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 32:5

The vile person shall no more be called liberal - The different epithets here employed require minute explanation. The vile person - נבל nabal , the pampered, fattened, brainless fellow, who eats to live, and lives to eat; who will scarcely part with any thing, and that which he does give he gives with an evil eye and a grudging heart. Liberal - נדיב nadib ; the generous, openhearted, princely man, who writes on all his possessions, For myself and mankind, and lives only to get... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 32:1-8

SECTION VIII . A PROPHECY OF MESSIAH 'S KINGDOM ( Isaiah 32:1-8 ). A PROPHECY OF MESSIAH 'S KINGDOM . It is generally allowed that this prophecy is Messianic; but some critics insist that it is not so "in a narrow sense." They regard Isaiah as expecting Messiah's kingdom to follow immediately on the discomfiture of Sennacherib, and as looking to Hezekiah to inaugurate it. According to this view, Hezekiah, renovated in character, was to be the Messiah, and might have... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 32:1-8

An ideal of political good. When the Divine Spirit has been outpoured, when the idols have been cast away, and the Assyrian yoke has been cast off, happy days will dawn. I. ROYALTY WILL BE SYNONYMOUS WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS . The King will be seen in his beauty—not the splendor of purple robes and lofty throne and brilliant court, but that of the equity and justice which imitate Heaven. God will call him by his name, will make him rich with hidden possessions, will go before him... read more

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