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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 4:1

It was threatened (Isa. 3:25) that the mighty men should fall by the sword in war, and it was threatened as a punishment to the women that affected gaiety and a loose sort of conversation. Now here we have the effect and consequence of that great slaughter of men, 1. That though Providence has so wisely ordered that, communibus annis?on an average of years, there is nearly an equal number of males and females born into the world, yet, through the devastations made by war, there should scarcely... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 4:2-6

By the foregoing threatenings Jerusalem is brought into a very deplorable condition: every thing looks melancholy. But here the sun breaks out from behind the cloud. Many exceedingly great and precious promises we have in these verses, giving assurance of comfort which may be discerned through the troubles, and of happy days which shall come after them, and these certainly point at the kingdom of the Messiah, and the great redemption to be wrought out by him, under the figure and type of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 4:1

And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man ,.... Not in the days of Ahaz, when Pekah, son of Remaliah, slew in Judah a hundred and twenty thousand men in one day, 2 Chronicles 28:6 as Kimchi thinks; for though there was then such a destruction of men, yet at the same time two hundred thousand women, with sons and daughters, were carried captive by the Israelites, 2 Chronicles 28:8 but in the days of Vespasian and Titus, and in the time of their wars with the Jews; in which... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 4:2

In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious ,.... When the beauty of the Jewish women shall be taken away, and their men shall he slain; by whom is meant, not the righteous and wise men left among the Jews, as Jarchi and Aben Ezra; nor Hezekiah; which is the sense of some, as the latter observes: but the Messiah, as Kimchi, and so the Targum, which paraphrases the words thus, "at that time shall the Messiah of the Lord be for joy and glory;' and the Septuagint... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 4:3

And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem ,.... These are the persons to whom Christ appears beautiful and glorious, excellent and comely, who will be left, and remain in Zion and Jerusalem; by which is meant the Gospel church, or church as in the latter day; in which these shall continue, abide by the truths and doctrines of the Gospel, and the ordinances thereof, and persevere unto the end; even when Christ shall take his fan in his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 4:4

When F14 Or, "for the Lord shall wash away"; so Noldius, in Ebr. Concord. Part. p. 88. No. 428. which gives a reason why he "that is left in Zion, &c; shall be called holy"; because "the Lord", &c.; so the Septuagint version, οτι εκπλυνει ; and Aben Ezra observes, that אם , "if", is used for כי , "because." read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 4:5

And the Lord will create on every dwelling place of Mount Zion ,.... That is, on every particular church of Christ in Gospel times, and especially in the latter day; which are the dwelling places of Father, Son, and Spirit, and of believers in Christ. The word F15 מכון a כון "paravit, disposuit". used signifies a place well fitted up, and prepared, and established, and settled; and such will be the churches of Christ in the latter day glory; they will be fitly framed together and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 4:6

And there shall be a tabernacle ,.... Christ, who tabernacled in our nature, and is the minister of the true tabernacle, which God pitched, and not man; who will be spiritually present in the word and ordinances, where the shepherds pitch their tents; and who will be that to his people as shepherds' tents are to them, to which the allusion is: for a shadow in the day time from the heat : from the heat of a fiery law, which works wrath; from the flaming sword of justice, which calls for... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 4:1

And seven women - The division of the chapters has interrupted the prophet's discourse, and broken it off almost in the midst of the sentence. "The numbers slain in battle shall be so great, that seven women shall be left to one man." The prophet has described the greatness of this distress by images and adjuncts the most expressive and forcible. The young women, contrary to their natural modesty, shall become suitors to the men: they will take hold of them, and use the most pressing... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 4:2

The branch of the Lord "the branch of Jehovah" - The Messiah of Jehovah, says the Chaldee. And Kimchi says, The Messiah, the Son of David. The branch is an appropriate title of the Messiah; and the fruit of the land means the great Person to spring from the house of Judah, and is only a parallel expression signifying the same; or perhaps the blessings consequent upon the redemption procured by him. Compare Isaiah 45:8 ; (note), where the same great event is set forth under similar images,... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 4:1

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 4:2-6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 4:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 4:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 4:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 4:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 4:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 4:6

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 4:1

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 4:2

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