Isaiah 28:5 - Exposition

In that day shall the Lord of hosts be , etc. This is an offer, and something more than an offer. It is implied that, to some extent, the offer would be accepted. And clearly the closing of the clouds around Samaria was coincident with the dawn of a brighter day in Judah. Hezekiah came to the throne only three years before the fatal siege of Samaria began. His accession must have been nearly contemporaneous with that expedition of Shal-maneser against Hoshea, when he "shut him up, and bound him in prison" ( 2 Kings 17:4 ). Yet he was not daunted by his neighbor's peril. He began his reign with a political revolution and a religious reformation. He threw off the yoke of Assyria, to which his father had submitted ( 2 Kings 18:7 ), and he cleared the land of idols and idol-worship. It was the dawn of a day of promise, such as the prophet seems to point to in these two verses. Unhappily, the dawn was soon clouded over ( Isaiah 28:7-9 ). The residue of his people ; i.e. Judah. All admit that "they also," in Isaiah 28:7 , refers to Judah, and Judah only; but the sole antecedent to "they also" is this mention of the residue of God's people.