Isaiah 28:2

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

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

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:1-8

The evil of excess: a sermon on intemperance. The allusion here is to the prevalent baneful vice of intemperance. The evils which are connected with it, and which constitute its condemnation, are such as belong to other kinds of excess, but especially and emphatically to it . I. HONOR IS HUMILIATED BY IT . "The crown of pride is trodden under feet" ( Isaiah 28:1 , Isaiah 28:3 ). The proud city, which was, alas! a city given up to drunkenness, should be brought down to the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:2

The Lord hath a mighty and strong one . God has in reserve a mighty power, which he will let loose upon Samaria. The wicked are "his sword" ( Psalms 17:13 ), and are employed to carry out his sentences. In the present ease the "mighty and strong one" is the Assyrian power. As a tempest of hail, etc. The fearfully devastating force of an Assyrian invasion is set forth under three distinct images—a hailstorm, a furious tempest of wind, and a violent inundation—as though so only could its... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 28:2

Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one - The Hebrew of this passage is, ‘Lo! there is to the Lord (לאדני la'donāy) mighty and strong.’ Lowth renders it,‘Behold the mighty one, the exceedingly strong one,’And supposes that it means the Lord himself. It is evident, however, that something must be understood as being that which the Lord ‘hath,’ for the Hebrew properly implies that there is something strong and mighty which is under his control, and with which, as with a tempest, he will... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 28:2-4

Isaiah 28:2-4 . Behold, the Lord hath Namely, at his command, prepared and ready to execute his judgments; a mighty and strong one Shalmaneser, the king of Assyria; which, as a tempest of hail, &c., shall cast down The crown of pride, to the earth, by his hand By the hand of God, which shall strengthen him in this work. The crown, the drunkards, shall be trodden under feet The expression is emphatical; the crown which was upon their own heads shall be trodden under the feet of... read more

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