Isaiah 28:25 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 28:23-29

This parable, which (like many of our Saviour's parables) is borrowed from the husbandman's calling, is ushered in with a solemn preface demanding attention, He that has ears to hear, let him hear, hear and understand, Isa. 28:23. I. The parable here is plain enough, that the husbandman applies himself to the business of his calling with a great deal of pains and prudence, secundum artem?according to rule, and, as his judgment directs him, observes a method and order in his work. 1. In his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 28:25

When he hath made plain the face thereof ,.... By harrowing it, after it is ploughed: doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin ; in sowing them in the ground, prepared for them; the former of these does not seem to be the same we so call, but something else. The Septuagint version calls it the little "melanthion" F3 So Junius & Tremellius, and Piscator. , the same with the "nigella" F4 As here with Pagninus, Montanus. of the Latins, and is sometimes... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:23-29

A PARABLE TO COMFORT BELIEVERS . Isaiah is always careful to intermingle promises with his threats, comfort with his denunciations. Like his great Master, of whom he prophesied, he was fain not to "break the bruised reed" or "quench the smoking flax." When he had searched men's wounds with the probe, he was careful to pour in oil and wine. So now, having denounced the sinners of Judah through three long paragraphs (verses 7-22), he has a word of consolation and encouragement for the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:23-29

Proverbial lore. The ploughman's activity and the thresher's are set before the people as a parable of Israel's tribulations. At least, this is one of the views of the passage. I. THE PURPOSE OF AFFLICTION . It is from God, and the end ever kept in view is the good of the soul and its productiveness. The ploughman does not plough for ploughing's sake. He opens the soil, turns up the furrows, breaks the clods with the harrow, and all to prepare for the sowing of the seed. And so... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:23-29

Divine discrimination. There are two preliminary lessons we may gather from these verses before we pluck the principal one. I. THAT IN THE ACTS AND INDUSTRIES OF MAN WE MAY FIND APT ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE WISDOM OF GOD . "Give ear and hear" ( Isaiah 28:23 ). There is something well worth observing in human husbandry; it will teach the student a useful lesson respecting the ways of God. Not only from the lilies of the field and from the birds of the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:24-28

The analogy of Divine to human methods of working. Isaiah's comparison in this chapter rests wholly upon the assumption of an analogy between God's dealings and man's, when the latter are such as are consonant with reason. Reason, the highest gift of God to man, be assumes to be an adumbration of some quality in the Divine nature, which bears a real resemblance to it. "Reason cometh forth from the Lord of hosts." It is the voice of God speaking in the soul of man. Let man follow it, and his... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:25

When he hath made plain the face thereof ; i.e. leveled it—brought the ground to a tolerably even surface. Doth he not cast abroad the fitches? The Hebrew word translated "fitches"— i.e. "vetches"—is qetsach , which is generally allowed to represent the Nigella sativa , a sort of ranun-cuhs, which is cultivated in many parts of the East for the sake of its seeds. These are black, and have an aromatic flavor. Dioscorides (3:83) and Pliny ( Isaiah 19:8 ) say that they were... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 28:25

When he hath made plain ... - That is, when he has leveled, or made smooth the surface of the ground by harrowing, or rolling it.Doth he not scatter abroad - He does not sow one kind of grain merely, but different species according to the nature of the soil, or according to his wishes in regard to a crop.The fitches - (קצח qetsach). Vulgate, Gith; a kind of cockle (Nigella Romana), an herb of sweet savor. Septuagint, Μικρόν μελάνθιον Mikron melanthion. The word ‘fitch’ denotes a small species... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 28:23-25

Isaiah 28:23-25. Give ye ear Observe what I say, and do you judge if it be not reasonable. “We have here the last member of this section, in which this severe judgment of God, denounced in the preceding verses, is defended by a parable taken from agriculture, wherein the prophet represents allegorically the intentions and methods of the divine judgments.” “As the husbandman uses various methods in preparing his land, and adapting it to the several kinds of seed to be sown, with a due... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 28:1-29

28:1-33:24 HEZEKIAH AND THE ASSYRIANSBefore reading Chapters 28-33, readers should be familiar with the historical background found in the introduction under the heading ‘Judah’s new policies under Hezekiah’. Hezekiah reversed the policies of his father Ahaz. Whereas Ahaz sought help from Assyria to oppose Israel and Syria, Hezekiah sought help from Egypt to oppose Assyria. Isaiah opposed both policies alike. Faith in God, not reliance on foreign powers, is Judah’s only hope for survival. The... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 28:23-29

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 28:25

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:23-29

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:23-29

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:23-29

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:24-28

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 28:25

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 28:25

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 28:23-25

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 28:1-29

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