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John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Isaiah
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 475,677 words · 701 reading sections
Isaiah 1:1
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible. Isaiah 1:1 INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH This book is called, in the New Testament, sometimes "the Book of the Words of the Prophet Esaias", Lu 3:4 sometimes only the "Prophet Esaias", Ac 8:28 and sometimes, as here, the "Book of the Prophet Esaias", Lu 4:17. In the Syriac versio…
2,652 wordsSECTION 2Isaiah 1:2
Isaiah 1:2 Ver. 2. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth,.... To what the Lord was about to say of his controversy with his people, which was to be managed openly and publicly before them as spectators and witnesses; this designs either strictly and properly the heavens and the earth, or figuratively the inhabitants …
546 wordsSECTION 3Isaiah 1:3
Isaiah 1:3 Ver. 3. The ox knoweth his owner,.... Knows his voice, when he calls him, and follows him where he leads him, whether to plough in the field, or feed in the meadows; and the ass his masters crib, or "manger"; where he is fed, and to which he goes when he wants food, and at the usual times. Gussetius {w} in…
335 wordsSECTION 4Isaiah 1:4
Isaiah 1:4 Ver. 4. Ah sinful nation,..... Or "sinning nation" {y}; that was continually sinning, doing nothing else but sin, the reverse of what they were chosen to be, De 7:6. These words are said, either as calling and crying to them, to cause them to hear and hearken to what is said, as Aben Ezra and Kimchi observe…
373 wordsSECTION 5Isaiah 1:5
Isaiah 1:5 Ver. 5. Why should ye be stricken any more? .... Or "for what are ye stricken again" {a}? with afflictions and chastisements, with which God smites his people by way of correction for their sins, Isa 57:17 and the sense is, either that they did not consider what they were afflicted for, that it was for thei…
291 wordsSECTION 6Isaiah 1:6
Isaiah 1:6 Ver. 6. From the sole of the foot even unto the head [there is] no soundness in it,.... Every member of the body politic was afflicted in one way or another, or sadly infected with the disease of sin; see Ps 28:3. So the Targum, "from the rest of the people, even unto the princes, there is none among them …
70 wordsSECTION 7see Da 9:8
see Da 9:8 [but] wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores; to which either public calamities on a city or nation may be compared, Ho 5:13 or the sins and transgressions both of single persons, and of whole bodies of men, Ps 38:5. The Targum is, "they are all stubborn and rebellious, they are defiled with sins as an …
227 wordsSECTION 8Isaiah 1:7
Isaiah 1:7 Ver. 7. Your country [is] desolate,.... Or "shall be"; this is either a declaration in proper terms of what is before figuratively expressed, or rather a prophecy of what would be their case on account of transgressions; and which had its accomplishment partly in the Babylonish captivity, and fully in the d…
7,595 wordsSECTION 9Isaiah 2:1
Isaiah 2:1 INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 2 This chapter contains a vision or prophecy of the enlargement of Christ's kingdom and interest, and of the glory of his church in the latter day, by the calling of the Gentiles, and the numerous conversions of them to it, and of the abolition of idolatry, and the destruction of the…
450 wordsSECTION 10Isaiah 2:2
Isaiah 2:2 Ver. 2. And it shall come to pass in the last days,.... The days of the Messiah, as Aben Ezra rightly interprets it; and it is a rule laid down by Kimchi and Ben Melech, that wherever the last days are mentioned, the days of the Messiah are intended. The days of the Messiah commenced in the latter part of t…
645 wordsSECTION 11Re 16:19
Re 16:19 and shall be exalted above the hills; Mount Zion is above Mount Sinai, or the Gospel dispensation is preferable to the legal one. It is an observation of Jarchi, that it shall be exalted by a greater sign or miracle that shall be done in it than was done in Sinai, Carmel, and Tabor; the law was given on Sinai…
277 wordsSECTION 12Isaiah 2:3
Isaiah 2:3 Ver. 3. And many people shall go and say,.... This is a prophecy of the numerous conversions among the Gentiles in the latter day, and agrees with Zec 8:20 and even the author of the old Nizzachon {p} interprets it of the gathering of the people to the Messiah. Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of …
1,022 wordsSECTION 13Isaiah 2:4
Isaiah 2:4 Ver. 4. And he shall judge among the nations,.... Or, "it shall judge"; either the mountain of the Lord's house, as Abarbinel thinks, that is, the church; for in the spiritual reign of Christ, in the latter day, the judgment shall be given to the saints of the most High, and they shall possess the kingdom; …
662 wordsSECTION 14Isaiah 2:5
Isaiah 2:5 Ver. 5. O house of Jacob,.... This is either an exhortation of the prophet to the men of his generation, to attend to the light of the law, which the Lord had given them, as Aben Ezra and Kimchi; or rather, as the Targum and Jarchi suggest, an exhortation of the nations to the people of Israel, and are inde…
573 wordsSECTION 15Isaiah 2:6
Isaiah 2:6 Ver. 6. Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people, the house of Jacob,.... These words contain a reason of the divine conduct, in calling the Gentiles, and rejecting the Jews, because of the sins of the latter hereafter mentioned; though some, as the Targum and R. Moses, refer this to the Israelites; and read…
627 wordsSECTION 16Isaiah 2:7
Isaiah 2:7 Ver. 7. Their land also is full of silver and gold,.... Procured by pardons, indulgences, masses, praying souls out of purgatory, tithes, annates, Peter's pence, &c. neither [is there any] end of their treasures; laid up in the pope's coffers, in their churches, monasteries, and convents: their land is al…
91 wordsSECTION 17Isaiah 2:8
Isaiah 2:8 Ver. 8. Their land also is full of idols,.... Of the Virgin Mary, and of saints departed, whose images are set up to be worshipped in all their churches, and had in private houses: and they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made; namely, idols of gold, silver, brass, wo…
65 wordsSECTION 18Isaiah 2:9
Isaiah 2:9 Ver. 9. And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself,.... Both high and low, rich and poor, bow down unto, humble themselves before, and worship idols made by the hands of men: the words for the "mean man" and "the great man" are Mda and vya, "Adam" and "Ish"; and which are also interpre…
232 wordsSECTION 19Isaiah 2:10
Isaiah 2:10 Ver. 10. Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust,.... As it was when Rome Pagan was destroyed, the kings, princes, and freemen called to the rocks to fall on them and hide them, Re 6:15 so it will be at the downfall of Rome Papal, when the kings and merchants of the earth, who have been concerned th…
160 wordsSECTION 20Isaiah 2:11
Isaiah 2:11 Ver. 11. The lofty looks of man shall be humbled,.... Particularly of the man of sin, the son of perdition, who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, assuming that to himself which belongs to God; looking down with contempt upon, and behaving haughtily and insolently to all below him;…
369 wordsSECTION 21Isaiah 2:12
Isaiah 2:12 Ver. 12. For the day of the Lord of hosts,.... Which is peculiarly his, which he has fixed and appointed, and in which there will be a great display of the glory of his power and grace: this [shall be] upon every [one that is] proud and lofty, and upon every [one that is] lifted up, and he shall be brough…
268 wordsSECTION 22Isaiah 2:13
Isaiah 2:13 Ver. 13. And upon all the cedars of Lebanon [that are] high and lifted up,.... That is, upon the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication with Babylon, and will join with the beast and false prophet in making war with the Lamb. So the Targum, Jarchi, and Kimchi, interpret it of the kings of the n…
110 wordsSECTION 23Isaiah 2:14
Isaiah 2:14 Ver. 14. And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills [that are] lifted up. By which may be meant either kingdoms and cities belonging to the Roman jurisdiction, or churches and monasteries, and such like religious houses, and the dissolution of them. See Re 16:20.…
52 wordsSECTION 24Isaiah 2:15
Isaiah 2:15 Ver. 15. And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall. Which may signify everything that serves to support and defend the antichristian hierarchy, particularly the secular powers. The Targum paraphrases it, "and upon all that dwell in a high tower, and upon all that reside by a fortified wall.''…
54 wordsSECTION 25Isaiah 2:16
Isaiah 2:16 Ver. 16. And upon all the ships of Tarshish,.... Upon all the merchants and merchandises of Rome. The Targum is, "and upon all that dwell in the islands of the sea.'' See Re 16:20. Tarshish, as Vitringa observes, designs Tartessus or Gades in Spain, which must bring to mind the memorable destruction of t…
1,033 wordsSECTION 26Isaiah 3:1
Isaiah 3:1 INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 3 In this chapter the Jews are threatened with various calamities, on account of their sins, which would issue in their entire ruin and destruction. They are threatened with a famine, Isa 3:1 with a removal of useful men in church and state, and in common life, Isa 3:2 with ignorant …
522 wordsSECTION 27Isaiah 3:2
Isaiah 3:2 Ver. 2. The mighty man, and man of war,.... The meaning is either that these should die in war, as thousands of them did; or that men fit to be generals of armies should be removed by death before this time, so that they should have none to go out with their armies, and meet the enemy: the judge and the pr…
343 wordsSECTION 28Isaiah 3:3
Isaiah 3:3 Ver. 3. The captain of fifty,.... A semi-centurion, such an one as in 2Ki 1:9. So far should there be from being captains of thousands, and of hundreds, that there should not be one of fifty: and the honourable man; by birth, breeding, and behaviour, through riches and greatness; and one of power and autho…
345 wordsSECTION 29Isaiah 3:4
Isaiah 3:4 Ver. 4. And I will give children [to be] their princes,.... Either in age, or in understanding, who are really so, or act like such; and in either sense, when this is the case, it is an unhappiness to a nation, Ec 10:16: and babes shall rule over them; which is the same as before. The Targum is, "the weak…
177 wordsSECTION 30Isaiah 3:5
Isaiah 3:5 Ver. 5. And the people shall be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbour,.... There being no governors, or such as were unfit for government, no decorum was kept and observed, but a mere anarchy; and so everyone did as he pleased, as when there was no king in Israel; and everyone rushed…
194 wordsSECTION 31Isaiah 3:6
Isaiah 3:6 Ver. 6. When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father,.... One of the same country, kindred, and family; for only one of their brethren, and not a stranger, might rule over them, De 17:15 this taking hold of him may design not so much a literal taking hold of his person, his hand or g…
254 wordsSECTION 32Isaiah 3:7
Isaiah 3:7 Ver. 7. In that day shall he swear,.... Or "lift up", that is, his hand {e}, which was a gesture used in swearing, and therefore is so rendered; the meaning is, that he shall at once immediately give an answer, and for the solemn confirmation of it shall say an oath with it, saying, I will not be a healer,…
232 wordsSECTION 33Isaiah 3:8
Isaiah 3:8 Ver. 8. For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen, &e.] This is a reason given why the government of them is refused; they were fallen into such a ruinous condition, that there was no probability of recovering them. And the reason of this their fall and ruin is, because their tongue and their doings [ar…
187 wordsSECTION 34Isaiah 3:9
Isaiah 3:9 Ver. 9. The shew of their countenance doth witness against them,.... The word translated "shew" is only used in this place. Some derive it from rkn, "to know", in the conjugations Piel and Hiphil; and render it, "the knowledge of their countenance" {f}; that is, that which may be known by their countenances…
323 wordsSECTION 35Isaiah 3:10
Isaiah 3:10 Ver. 10. Say ye to the righteous, that [it shall be] well [with him],.... The Lord always has some righteous ones, in the worst of times, whom he can and does distinguish, single out, and take care of; and it is his will that they should be comforted by his prophets and ministers, who seem to be the person…
418 wordsSECTION 36Isaiah 3:11
Isaiah 3:11 Ver. 11. Woe unto the wicked! [it shall be] ill [with him],.... In time, and to eternity, in times of public calamity, and under all afflictions, and adverse dispensations of Providence; he has no God to go to; all that befalls him is in wrath; at death he is driven away in his wickedness; at judgment he w…
325 wordsSECTION 37Isaiah 3:12
Isaiah 3:12 Ver. 12. [As for] my people, children [are] their oppressors,.... Or rulers; for vgwn, in the Ethiopic language, signifies a king: or "exactors", as in Isa 60:17 princes are so called, because they exact tribute of their subjects, and sometimes in a tyrannical and oppressive manner, and so get the name of …
312 wordsSECTION 38Isaiah 3:13
Isaiah 3:13 Ver. 13. The Lord standeth up to plead,.... His own cause, or the cause of his son against the Jews that rejected him, and the Scribes and Pharisees that led them to an ill opinion of him:and standeth to judge the people. Both expressions show indignation and resentment; he rises up out of his place, and s…
3,623 wordsSECTION 39Isaiah 4:1
Isaiah 4:1 INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 4 The "first" verse of this chapter Isa 4:1 seems more properly to belong to the preceding chapter, which declares such a scarcity of men, through the destruction of them in war, there predicted, that there should be seven women to one man; who, contrary to their natural modesty, wou…
630 wordsSECTION 40Isaiah 4:2
Isaiah 4:2 Ver. 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 t…
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Isaiah 4:3 Ver. 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…
724 wordsSECTION 42Isaiah 4:4
Isaiah 4:4 Ver. 4. When {n} the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion,.... By Zion is meant the church of Christ in general, his mystical body, the general assembly and church of the firstborn, written in heaven, Heb 12:22 and by her "daughters" particular churches, that go by the name of Chri…
858 wordsSECTION 43Isaiah 4:5
Isaiah 4:5 Ver. 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 {o} used signifies a place well fitted u…
813 wordsSECTION 44Isaiah 4:6
Isaiah 4:6 Ver. 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' …
266 wordsSECTION 45Isaiah 5:1
Isaiah 5:1 INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 5 In this chapter, under the parable of a vineyard and its ruins, the Jews and their destruction are represented; the reasons of which are given, their manifold sins and transgressions, particularly enumerated, with the punishment threatened to them, and which is delivered in form of…
819 wordsSECTION 46Isaiah 5:2
Isaiah 5:2 Ver. 2. And he fenced it,.... With good and wholesome laws, which distinguished them, and kept them separate from other nations; also with his almighty power and providence; especially at the three yearly festivals, when all their males appeared before God at Jerusalem: and gathered out the stones thereof;…
456 wordsSECTION 47Isaiah 5:3
Isaiah 5:3 Ver. 3. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah,.... All and everyone of them, who were parties concerned in this matter, and are designed by the vineyard, for whom so much had been done, and so little fruit brought forth by them, or rather so much bad fruit: judge, I pray you, between me and…
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Isaiah 5:4 Ver. 4. What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it?.... Or "ought", as the Vulgate Latin: this is generally understood of good things done to it in time past; as what better culture could it have had? what greater privileges, blessings, and advantages, natural, civil, and reli…
386 wordsSECTION 49Isaiah 5:5
Isaiah 5:5 Ver. 5. And now, go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard,.... Not by bestowing fresh favours upon them, but by inflicting punishment on them, for abusing what they had received; and this he told by John Baptist, Christ, and his apostles, what he determined to do; and what he was about to do to …
244 wordsSECTION 50Isaiah 5:6
Isaiah 5:6 Ver. 6. And I will lay it waste,.... Or "desolate", as it was by the Romans: the whole land of Judea, as well as the city and temple Mt 23:38, it shall not be pruned nor digged; as vineyards are, to make them more fruitful; but no care shall be taken of it, no means made use of to cultivate it, all being i…
191 wordsSECTION 51Isaiah 5:7
Isaiah 5:7 Ver. 7. For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel,.... This is the explication of the parable, or the accommodation and application of it to the people of Israel, by whom are meant the ten tribes; they are signified by the vineyard, which belonged to the Lord of hosts, who had chosen them…
251 wordsSECTION 52Isaiah 5:8
Isaiah 5:8 Ver. 8. Woe unto them that join house to house,.... Or "O ye that join", &c.; for, as Aben Ezra observes, it signifies calling, as in Isa 55:1 though Jarchi takes it to be expressive of crying and groaning, on account of future punishments; and he observes, that as there are twenty two blessings pronounced …
296 wordsSECTION 53Isaiah 5:9
Isaiah 5:9 Ver. 9. In mine ears, [said] the Lord of hosts,.... This may be understood either of the ears of the Lord of hosts, into which came the cry of the sins of covetousness and ambition before mentioned; these were taken notice of by the Lord, and he was determined to punish them; or of the ears of the prophet, …
274 wordsSECTION 54Isaiah 5:10
Isaiah 5:10 Ver. 10. Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath,.... They shall get nothing by laying field to field, for their fields shall be barren and unfruitful; though Jarchi and Kimchi take this to be a reason why their houses should be desolate, and without inhabitants, because there would be a famine, re…
296 wordsSECTION 55Isaiah 5:11
Isaiah 5:11 Ver. 11. Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning,.... To rise up early in the morning is healthful, and to rise to do business is commendable; but to spend the day in drunkenness and intemperance is very criminal, which is here meant: [that] they may follow, strong drink; not only drink it, but fo…
135 wordsSECTION 56Isaiah 5:12
Isaiah 5:12 Ver. 12. And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe,.... Instruments of music; some struck with a bow or quill, or touched with the fingers; and others blown with the mouth: and wine are in their feasts; so that they lived jovially and merrily, like sons of Bacchus, more than like the people of God:…
5,102 wordsSECTION 57Isaiah 6:1
Isaiah 6:1 INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 6 This chapter contains a vision of the glory and majesty of Christ, the mission and commission of the prophet, and the destruction of the Jews. In the vision may be observed the time of it, and the object seen; who is described by the throne on which he sat, Isa 6:1 and by his minis…
1,104 wordsSECTION 58Isaiah 6:2
Isaiah 6:2 Ver. 2. Above it stood the seraphims,.... Not above the temple, nor above the throne, much less above him that sat upon it, but either "by him", on the right hand and on the left, as Aben Ezra; or "near him", as Kimchi and Ben Melech; or "before him", as the Targum; or "round about him", as the Septuagint; …
666 wordsSECTION 59Isaiah 6:3
Isaiah 6:3 Ver. 3. And one cried unto another,.... This denotes the publicness of their ministry, and their harmony and unity in it; they answered to one another, and agreed in what they said; their preaching was not yea and nay, 2Co 1:19: and said, holy, holy, holy [is] the Lord of hosts; this expresses the subject …
429 wordsSECTION 60Isaiah 6:4
Isaiah 6:4 Ver. 4. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried,.... That is, the posts of the door of the temple, as the Targum adds, where this vision was seen, as represented to the prophet. Some think this respects the earthquake in Uzziah's time, mentioned in Zec 14:5 and which they suppose was …
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