Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 3:2
2. Fulfilled ( :-). prudent—the Hebrew often means a "soothsayer" ( :-); thus it will mean, the diviners, on whom they rely, shall in that day fail. It is found in a good sense ( :-), from which passage the Jews interpret it a king; "without" whom Israel long has been ( :-). ancient—old and experienced (1 Kings 12:6-8). read more
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 3:2
"The mighty man, and the man of war; the judge and the prophet, and the diviner and the elder; the captain of fifty and the honorable man, the counselor, and the expert artificer, and the skillful enchanter."All of these popular supports of the nation were to be taken away as a result of the divine judgment, beginning, even then, to descend upon the apostate people, and destined, finally, to result in the complete overthrow and destruction of the Jewish state, defined in the prophets as "the... read more