Isaiah 11:15-16

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 11:15

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 11:15

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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 11:10-16

Judah and the nations. I. HONOR TO THE ROOT OF JUDAH . The scion from the ancient trunk will be honored far and wide among the heathen, because of those virtues already described in the preceding section. It will be a banner to which they will flock, a center of light and living oracles. II. REDEMPTION OF THE REMNANT . The mighty hand of Jehovah will be stretched forth to gather the scattered ones from all the four quarters of their dispersion. When the banner is... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 11:13-16

Conditions of victory. These verses probably point to the time when all Israel shall be gathered into the fold of the gospel, and when" their fullness" shall contribute largely to the conversion of the Gentile world (see Romans 11:1-36 .). But we may take a more practical view of the subject if we regard it thus; we have pictures of— I. PRESENT SPIRITUAL ANARCHY . The people of God everywhere dispersed, the theocracy broken up, the temple destroyed, the Law unobserved, the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 11:14-16

THE UNITED CHURCH SHALL TRIUMPH OVER ITS ENEMIES . PHYSICAL OBSTACLES TO ITS UNION GOD WILL REMOVE . Israel's most persistent enemies had been the border-nations of the Philistines, the Edomites, the Arabs, Moab and Ammon. These are now taken as types of the enemies of the Church, and victory over them is promised ( Isaiah 11:14 ). A further promise is made that physical difficulties shall not prevent the return of the Jewish exiles from distant countries ( ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 11:15

The Lord shall utterly destroy ; rather, shall lay under a curse (Aquila, ἀναθεματίσει ). The tongue of the Egyptian sea . Either the Gulf of Suez or that of Akabah. God shall do away with those obstacles which keep the nations apart and prevent ready intercourse. Both gulfs are thought to have extended anciently considerably further inland than they do at present. With his mighty wind ; rather, with the might of his breath ( in fortitudine spiritus sui , Vulgate). Shall he... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 11:16

There shall be an highway . This is the object in view—the free and unhindered passage of his people from the various regions where they are scattered ( Isaiah 11:11 ) to their resting-place in Palestine. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 11:15

And the Lord - The prophet goes on with the description of the effect which shall follow the return of the scattered Jews to God. The language is figurative, and is here drawn from that which was the great storehouse of all the imagery of the Jews - the deliverance of their fathers from the bondage of Egypt. The general sense is, that all the embarrassments which would tend to impede them would be removed; and that God would make their return as easy and as safe, as would have been the journey... read more

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