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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 21:1-10

We had one burden of Babylon before (Isa. 13:1-22); here we have another prediction of its fall. God saw fit thus to possess his people with the belief of this event by line upon line, because Babylon sometimes pretended to be a friend to them (as Isa. 39:1), and God would hereby warn them not to trust to that friendship, and sometimes was really an enemy to them, and God would hereby warn them not to be afraid of that enmity. Babylon is marked for ruin; and all that believe God's prophets... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 21:5

Prepare the table ,.... Set it, spread it, furnish it with all kind of provisions, as at a feast; and such an one Belshazzar made, the night the city was taken: these words are directed to him by his courtiers or queen, as represented by the prophet, in order to remove his fears; see Daniel 5:10 , watch in the watchtower ; this is said to his servants, his soldiers, or sentinels, that were placed on watchtowers to observe the motions of the enemy, who were ordered on duty, and to be on... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 21:6

For thus hath the Lord said unto me ,.... This is a confirmation of the above prophecy from the Lord himself, he showing to the prophet, in a visionary way, the ruin of Babylon, and the means and instruments of it: go, set a watchman ; not Habakkuk, as Jarchi; nor Urias, as the Septuagint; nor Jeremiah, as others; but himself, who, in a way of vision, represented a watchman on the walls of Babylon; and which was no way unsuitable to his character and office as a prophet: let him... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 21:7

And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen ,.... The drivers of it, or the riders in it; perhaps meaning Cyrus and Darius: a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels ; by the former may be meant the Persians, who very much used mules or asses; and the Medes by the latter, who abounded in camels: the words are in the singular number, and may be rendered, "a rider of an ass, and a rider of a camel" F23 רכב חמור רכב גמל αναβατην ονου, και αναβατην καμηλου , Sept.;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 21:8

And he cried, a lion ,.... That is, the watchman cried, a lion, or that he saw a lion; not Uriah the priest, as the Septuagint; nor Habakkuk, as some Jewish writers; but Cyrus, at the head of the Persian and Median armies, compared to a lion for his fierceness, courage, and strength; see 2 Timothy 4:17 a type of Christ, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, by whom antichrist, or mystical Babylon, will be destroyed, Revelation 5:5 . The Targum is, "the prophet said, the voice of armies,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 21:9

And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men ,.... Or "of a man" F24 רכב איש "currus viri", Pagninus, Montanus. ; a chariot with a man in it, Cyrus or Darius: with a couple of horsemen ; the army of the Medes and Persians, with their two leaders or generals, as before; only now seen nearer the city, just entering into it; for so the word may be rendered, "goeth", or "is gone in a chariot", &c.;: and he answered, and said ; either the watchman, upon seeing the chariot and... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 21:5

Prepare the table "The table is prepared" - In Hebrew the verbs are in the infinitive mood absolute, as in Ezekiel 1:14 ; : "And the animals ran and returned, ושוב רצוא ratso veshob , like the appearance of the lightning;" just as the Latins say, currere et reverti, for currebant et revertebantur . See Isaiah 33:11 ; (note), and the note there. Arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield - Kimchi observes that several of the rabbins understood this of Belshazzar's impious feast... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 21:7

And he saw a chariot, etc. "And he saw a chariot with two riders; a rider on an ass, a rider on a camel" - This passage is extremely obscure from the ambiguity of the term רכב recheb , which is used three times, and which signifies a chariot, or any other vehicle, or the rider in it; or a rider on a horse, or any other animal; or a company of chariots, or riders. The prophet may possibly mean a cavalry in two parts, with two sorts of riders; riders on asses or mules, and riders on... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 21:8

And he cried, A lion "He that looked out on the watch" - The present reading, אריה aryeh , a lion, is so unintelligible, and the mistake so obvious, that I make no doubt that the true reading is הראה haroeh , the seer; as the Syriac translator manifestly found it in his copy, who renders it by דקוא duka , a watchman. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 21:9

Here cometh a chariot of men, etc. "A man, one of the two riders" - So the Syriac understands it, and Ephrem Syr. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 21:1-10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 21:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 21:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 21:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 21:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 21:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 21:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 21:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 21:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 21:9

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