Isaiah 2

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 2

With this chapter begins a new sermon, which is continued in the two following chapters. The subject of this discourse is Judah and Jerusalem, Isa. 2:1. In this chapter the prophet speaks, I. Of the glory of the Christians, Jerusalem, the gospel-church in the latter days, in the accession of many to it (Isa. 2:2, 3), and the great peace it should introduce into the world (Isa. 2:4), whence he infers the duty of the house of Jacob, Isa. 2:5. II. Of the shame of the Jews, Jerusalem, as it then... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 2:1-5

The particular title of this sermon (Isa. 2:1) is the same with the general title of the book (Isa. 1:1), only that what is there called the vision is here called the word which Isaiah saw (or the matter, or thing, which he saw), the truth of which he had as full an assurance of in his own mind as if he had seen it with his bodily eyes. Or this word was brought to him in a vision; something he saw when he received this message from God. John turned to see the voice that spoke with him. Rev.... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 2:6-9

The calling in of the Gentiles was accompanied with the rejection of the Jews; it was their fall, and the diminishing of them, that was the riches of the Gentiles; and the casting off of them was the reconciling of the world (Rom. 11:12-15); and it should seem that these verses have reference to that, and are designed to justify God therein, and yet it is probable that they are primarily intended for the convincing and awakening of the men of that generation in which the prophet lived, it... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 2:10-22

The prophet here goes on to show what a desolation would be brought upon their land when God should have forsaken them. This may refer particularly to their destruction by the Chaldeans first, and afterwards by the Romans, or it may have a general respect to the method God takes to awaken and humble proud sinners, and to put them out of conceit with that which they delighted in and depended on more than God. We are here told that sooner or later God will find out a way, I. To startle and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 2

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 2 This chapter contains a vision or prophecy of the enlargement of Christ's kingdom and interest, and of the glory of his church in the latter day, by the calling of the Gentiles, and the numerous conversions of them to it, and of the abolition of idolatry, and the destruction of the antichristian party. The inscription to it is in Isaiah 2:1 the prophecy itself follows; the date of it is the last days; the subject matter of it, the kingdom, interest, and church of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 2:1

The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw ,.... That is, the vision which he saw, for a new one here begins, though agreeable to what goes before; or the prophecy of future things, which he had given to him in a visionary way. The Targum paraphrases it, "the word of prophecy, which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, prophesied:' or the thing, the "decree", as some choose to render it, the purpose of God concerning things to come, which was revealed to the prophet, and he here declares: ... read more

John Gill

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

And it shall come to pass in the last days ,.... The days of the Messiah, as Aben Ezra rightly interprets it; and it is a rule laid down by Kimchi and Ben Melech, that wherever the last days are mentioned, the days of the Messiah are intended. The days of the Messiah commenced in the latter part of the Old Testament dispensation, or Jewish world, towards the close of their civil and church state, at the end of which he was to come, Habakkuk 2:3 and accordingly did, which is called the end... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 2:3

And many people shall go and say ,.... This is a prophecy of the numerous conversions among the Gentiles in the latter day, and agrees with Zechariah 8:20 and even the author of the old Nizzachon F16 Apud Wagenseil. Tela ignea, p. 29. interprets it of the gathering of the people to the Messiah. Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob ; the church of Christ, so called; See Gill on Isaiah 2:2 . This expresses the concern that... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 2:4

And he shall judge among the nations ,.... Or, "it shall judge"; either the mountain of the Lord's house, as Abarbinel thinks, that is, the church; for in the spiritual reign of Christ, in the latter day, the judgment shall be given to the saints of the most High, and they shall possess the kingdom; the power of civil government will be in their hands, and they shall judge the world; for kings will then be nursing fathers to them, and queens nursing mothers. Or the law and word of the Lord,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 2:5

O house of Jacob ,.... This is either an exhortation of the prophet to the men of his generation, to attend to the light of the law, which the Lord had given them, as Aben Ezra and Kimchi; or rather, as the Targum and Jarchi suggest, an exhortation of the nations to the people of Israel, and are indeed the words of the converted Gentiles to the people of the Jews, being concerned for their conversion and spiritual welfare, as will appear in the latter day; when they will not only encourage... read more

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