Isaiah 4

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 4

In this chapter we have, I. A threatening of the paucity and scarceness of man (Isa. 4:1), which might fitly enough have been added to the close of the foregoing chapter, to which it has a plain reference. II. A promise of the restoration of Jerusalem's peace and purity, righteousness and safety, in the days of the Messiah, Isa. 4:2-6. Thus, in wrath, mercy is remembered, and gospel grace is a sovereign relief, in reference to the terrors of the law and the desolations made by sin. read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 4:1

It was threatened (Isa. 3:25) that the mighty men should fall by the sword in war, and it was threatened as a punishment to the women that affected gaiety and a loose sort of conversation. Now here we have the effect and consequence of that great slaughter of men, 1. That though Providence has so wisely ordered that, communibus annis?on an average of years, there is nearly an equal number of males and females born into the world, yet, through the devastations made by war, there should scarcely... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 4:2-6

By the foregoing threatenings Jerusalem is brought into a very deplorable condition: every thing looks melancholy. But here the sun breaks out from behind the cloud. Many exceedingly great and precious promises we have in these verses, giving assurance of comfort which may be discerned through the troubles, and of happy days which shall come after them, and these certainly point at the kingdom of the Messiah, and the great redemption to be wrought out by him, under the figure and type of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 4

INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 4 The "first" verse of this chapter Isaiah 4:1 seems more properly to belong to the preceding chapter, which declares such a scarcity of men, through the destruction of them in war, there predicted, that there should be seven women to one man; who, contrary to their natural modesty, would make suit to him; and, contrary to custom, propose to provide their own food and raiment, only desiring to be called by his name. After which, Isaiah 4:2 , follows a prophecy of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 4:1

And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man ,.... Not in the days of Ahaz, when Pekah, son of Remaliah, slew in Judah a hundred and twenty thousand men in one day, 2 Chronicles 28:6 as Kimchi thinks; for though there was then such a destruction of men, yet at the same time two hundred thousand women, with sons and daughters, were carried captive by the Israelites, 2 Chronicles 28:8 but in the days of Vespasian and Titus, and in the time of their wars with the Jews; in which... read more

John Gill

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

In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious ,.... When the beauty of the Jewish women shall be taken away, and their men shall he slain; by whom is meant, not the righteous and wise men left among the Jews, as Jarchi and Aben Ezra; nor Hezekiah; which is the sense of some, as the latter observes: but the Messiah, as Kimchi, and so the Targum, which paraphrases the words thus, "at that time shall the Messiah of the Lord be for joy and glory;' and the Septuagint... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 4:3

And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem ,.... These are the persons to whom Christ appears beautiful and glorious, excellent and comely, who will be left, and remain in Zion and Jerusalem; by which is meant the Gospel church, or church as in the latter day; in which these shall continue, abide by the truths and doctrines of the Gospel, and the ordinances thereof, and persevere unto the end; even when Christ shall take his fan in his... read more

John Gill

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

When F14 Or, "for the Lord shall wash away"; so Noldius, in Ebr. Concord. Part. p. 88. No. 428. which gives a reason why he "that is left in Zion, &c; shall be called holy"; because "the Lord", &c.; so the Septuagint version, οτι εκπλυνει ; and Aben Ezra observes, that אם , "if", is used for כי , "because." read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 4:5

And the Lord will create on every dwelling place of Mount Zion ,.... That is, on every particular church of Christ in Gospel times, and especially in the latter day; which are the dwelling places of Father, Son, and Spirit, and of believers in Christ. The word F15 מכון a כון "paravit, disposuit". used signifies a place well fitted up, and prepared, and established, and settled; and such will be the churches of Christ in the latter day glory; they will be fitly framed together and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 4:6

And there shall be a tabernacle ,.... Christ, who tabernacled in our nature, and is the minister of the true tabernacle, which God pitched, and not man; who will be spiritually present in the word and ordinances, where the shepherds pitch their tents; and who will be that to his people as shepherds' tents are to them, to which the allusion is: for a shadow in the day time from the heat : from the heat of a fiery law, which works wrath; from the flaming sword of justice, which calls for... read more

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