Isaiah 7:18-19 KJV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 7:17-25

After the comfortable promises made to Ahaz as a branch of the house of David, here follow terrible threatenings against him, as a degenerate branch of that house; for though the loving-kindness of God shall not be utterly taken away, for the sake of David and the covenant made with him, yet his iniquity shall be chastened with the rod, and his sin with stripes. Let those that will not mix faith with the promises of God expect to hear the alarms of his threatenings. I. The judgment threatened... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 7:18

And it shall come to pass in that day ,.... the time when those evil days before spoken of should take place: that the Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt ; or flies, as the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions render it; the Egyptians, so called because their country abounded with flies; and because of the multitude of their armies, and the swiftness of their march; this seems to have had its accomplishment when Pharaohnechoh king of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 7:19

And they shall come ,.... The Egyptian and Assyrian armies, when the Lord calls for them in his providence, and his time is come to make use of them as a scourge to his people: and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys : made so by war; this is said in allusion to flies and bees resting on trees and flowers; and signifies that these armies, after long and tedious marches, should all of them, without being diminished by the way, enter the land of Judea, fill all places, and take... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 7:18

Hiss for the fly "Hist the fly" - See note on Isaiah 5:26 . Egypt, and - Assyria - Sennacherib, Esarhaddon, Pharaoh-necho, and Nebuchadnezzar, who one after another desolated Judea. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 7:19

Holes of the rocks "Caverns" - So the Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, whence Houbigant supposes the true reading to be הנחללים hannachalolim . One of my oldest MSS. reads הנחלולים hannochalolim . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 7:17-20

Our pleasant vices whips for our own backs. Ahaz has made up his mind to "hire" the keen razor that lies beyond the far waters of the Euphrates, in Mesopotamia and Assyria Proper. He means to meet the danger which he sees to be impending, by his own wisdom and in his own strength. His ally, Tigiath-Pileser, "the great king, the King of Assyria" ( 2 Kings 18:28 ), shall crush the hosts of Pekah and Rezin, save Judah and Jerusalem from harm, nay, perhaps exalt Judah to the position which was... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 7:17-25

THE DANGER TO JUDAH FROM ASSYRIA . The perversity of Ahaz, already rebuked in Isaiah 7:13 , is further punished by a threat, that upon him, and upon his people, and upon his father's house, shall come shortly a dire calamity. The very power whose aid he is himself bent on invoking shall be the scourge to chastise both king and people ( Isaiah 7:17-20 ). The land shall be made bare as by a razor ( Isaiah 7:20 ). Cultivation shall cease; its scant inhabitants will support... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 7:17-25

Divine retribution. The reference of these verses is clearly national; nevertheless they may be pointed so as to bear upon individual men; for we may be sure that it is on the same principles on which God governs communities that he rules the heart and life of each one of his subjects. We gather concerning Divine retribution— I. THAT IT MAY BE WROUGHT BY VARIOUS INSTRUMENTALITIES . 1. Sometimes by unconscious instruments . 2. Sometimes by conscious agents . ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 7:18

The Lord shall hiss (see Isaiah 5:26 , and note ad loc .). For the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt . The "fly of Egypt," like the "bee of Assyria," represents the military force of the nation, which God summons to take part in the coming affliction of Judaea. The prophetic glance may be extended over the entire period of Judah's decadence, and the " flies " summoned may include those which clustered about Neco at Megiddo, and carried off Jehoahaz from... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 7:18-25

War-pictures. I. INVADING HOSTS . The armies of Egypt and Assyria are compared to swarms of bees. As the bee-master calls to his winged slaves with a peculiar sound, so at the call of Jehovah the swarms of Israel's foes will come on, with swords that sting, and settle down in the low-lying pastures of the land, in the rock-clefts, the hedges of thorn, and the pastures. (For the image of the bees, compare Deuteronomy 1:44 ; Psalms 118:1-29 .) In Joel 2:1-32 . we find a splendid... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 7:17-25

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 7:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 7:19

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 7:18

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 7:19

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 7:17-20

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 7:17-25

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 7:17-25

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 7:18

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 7:18-25

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