John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 20:2
At the same time spake the Lord by Isaiah the son of Amoz ,.... Or, "by the hand of Isaiah", by his means; and it was to him likewise, as the following words show; and so the Septuagint version renders it; he spoke by him, by the sign he used, according to his order, and he spoke to him to use the sign: saying ; so the Arabic version, "with him"; and with these versions Noldius agrees: go, and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins ; a token of mourning, and which the prophet wore,... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 20:1-6
God here, as King of nations, brings a sore calamity upon Egypt and Ethiopia, but, as King of saints, brings good to his people out of it. Observe, I. The date of this prophecy. It was in the year that Ashdod, a strong city of the Philistines (but which some think was lately recovered from them by Hezekiah, when he smote the Philistines even unto Gaza, 2 Kgs. 18:8), was besieged and taken by an army of the Assyrians. It is uncertain what year of Hezekiah that was, but the event was so... read more