Isaiah 11:11-16 BSB

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 11:10-16

We have here a further prophecy of the enlargement and advancement of the kingdom of the Messiah, under the type and figure of the flourishing condition of the kingdom of Judah in the latter end of Hezekiah's reign, after the defeat of Sennacherib. I. This prediction was in part accomplished when the great things God did for Hezekiah and his people proved as an ensign, inviting the neighbouring nations to them to enquire of the wonders done in the land, on which errand the king of Babylon's... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 11:11

And it shall come to pass in that day ,.... Before spoken of, and which includes the whole Gospel dispensation: that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time ; which refers to a first, in which the Lord exerted his power in the recovery of his people out of the hands of their enemies; and that was the deliverance of them out of Egypt, and which was typical of the deliverance of the Lord's people in the times of Christ; and it is usual with the Jews F9 Midrash Koheleth,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 11:12

And he shall set up an ensign for the nations ,.... For the gathering of them, for the calling of the Gentiles, that is, the Lord would do it; he who before is said to set his hand a second time to recover his people, whether among Jews or Gentiles; this he has done in the ministration of the Gospel, in which Christ is lifted up and held forth as the only Saviour of lost sinners, the sole author and glorious Captain of salvation, for them to flee to, and lay hold on; and this he still does,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 11:13

The envy also of Ephraim shall depart ,.... With which it envied Judah, on account of the kingdom of the house of David, and the temple being in that tribe; not that this is the thing intended, only alluded to; the meaning is, that whatever envy or jealousy subsisted in the Gentile against the Jew, or in the Jew against the Gentile, should be no more, when gathered into one Gospel church state; or whatever of this kind has appeared in one Christian church, or denomination among Christians,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 11:14

But they shall flee upon the shoulders of the Philistines towards the west ,.... That is, Ephraim and Judah, who shall not only agree among themselves, but cheerfully join together against the common enemy: "they shall flee with the shoulder", as some render the words; with joint consent, as the phrase is used in Hosea 6:9 , Zephaniah 3:9 and so the Targum, "and they shall be joined together in one shoulder, to smite the Philistines;' the Septuagint version is, "they shall flee in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 11:15

And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea ,.... Which Kimchi and Abarbinel interpret of the Egyptian river Sichor, or the Nile; others of a bay of the Egyptian sea, so called because in the form of a tongue; the destroying of it designs the drying of it up, so that people might pass over it dry shod; the allusion is to the drying up of the Red Sea, when the Israelites came out of Egypt, and passed through it, as on dry land; and it intends the destruction of Egypt... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 11:16

And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people ,.... That is, through the river; that being dried up, and all hindrances and obstacles being removed, the way will be clear for multitudes to walk in without interruption, like a large common, highway, or causeway; so the Mahometan, Pagan, and Papal kingdoms being destroyed, and with them each of their religions, the way of truth, righteousness, and holiness, will be manifest to the remnant of the Lord's people; who will be at this... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 11:11

And it shall come to pass in that day - This part of the chapter contains a prophecy which certainly remains yet to be accomplished. The Lord "Jehovah" - For אדני Adonai , thirty-three MSS. of Kennicott's, and many of De Rossi's, and two editions, read יהוה Yehovah . The islands of the sea - The Roman and Turkish empires, say Kimchi. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 11:13

The adversaries of Judah "And the enmity of Judah" - צררים tsorerim , Postulat pars posterior versus, ut intelligantur inimicitiae Judae in Ephraimum: et potest ( צררים tsorerim ) inimicitiam notare, ut ( נחומים nichumim ) poenitentiam , Hosea 11:8 . - Secker. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 11:15

The Lord - shall smite it in the seven streams "Smite with a drought" - The Chaldee reads החריב hecherib ; and so perhaps the Septuagint, who have ερημωσει , the word by which they commonly render it. Vulg. desolabit ; "shall desolate." The Septuagint, Vulgate, and Chaldee read הדריכהו hidrichahu , "shall make it passable," adding the pronoun, which is necessary: but this reading is not confirmed by any MS. Here is a plain allusion to the passage of the Red Sea. And the Lord's... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 11:10-16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 11:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 11:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 11:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 11:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 11:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 11:16

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 11:11

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 11:13

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 11:15

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