PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Isaiah
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 475,677 words · 701 reading sections
Re 19:15
Re 19:15 and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked; either by the words of his mouth, as before; see Ho 6:5 so that they become dead men in their own apprehensions, have no hope of life and salvation by their own works, see themselves dead in law, and liable to eternal death and damnation; or this is to…
313 wordsSECTION 122Isaiah 11:5
Isaiah 11:5 Ver. 5. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins,.... He shall be adorned with it, strengthened by it, and ready at all times to perform it; he loved righteousness, and did acts of righteousness throughout the whole course of his life; and, by his active and passive obedience, wrought out an ever…
182 wordsSECTION 123Isaiah 11:6
Isaiah 11:6 Ver. 6. And the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,.... This, and the three following verses Isa 11:7, describe the peaceableness of the Messiah's kingdom; and which the Targum introduces in this manner, "in the days of the Messiah of Israel, peace shall be multiplied in the earth.'' The wild and tame c…
564 wordsSECTION 124Isaiah 11:7
Isaiah 11:7 Ver. 7. And the cow and the bear shall feed,.... That is, together, in one church state, at one table, or in one pasture, upon the wholesome food of the Gospel, the salutary doctrines of Christ; who though before of different dispositions, the one tame and gentle, useful and profitable, dispensing the milk…
225 wordsSECTION 125Isaiah 11:8
Isaiah 11:8 Ver. 8. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp,.... Without fear or danger: and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's den; and suffer no damage: the meaning is explained in the next words, and to be understood of regenerate persons, both of new born babes, or just born, …
105 wordsSECTION 126Isaiah 11:9
Isaiah 11:9 Ver. 9. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,.... In the Church, so called, in allusion to the holy hill of Zion; in the latter day, after the destruction of antichrist, there will be no more persecution of the saints; they will be no more injured nor harassed by wicked men, comparable t…
367 wordsSECTION 127Isaiah 11:10
Isaiah 11:10 Ver. 10. And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse,.... The Messiah, so called, either with respect to his human nature, who was to spring from Jesse; so the Targum, "and there shall be at that time a son of the sons of Jesse;'' who, when incarnate, was like a root under ground, hidden to men, as t…
951 wordsSECTION 128Isaiah 11:11
Isaiah 11:11 Ver. 11. And it shall come to pass in that day,.... Before spoken of, and which includes the whole Gospel dispensation: [that] the Lord shall set his hand again the second time; which refers to a first, in which the Lord exerted his power in the recovery of his people out of the hands of their enemies; a…
2,699 wordsSECTION 129Isaiah 12:1
Isaiah 12:1 INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 12 This chapter contains a song of praise and thanksgiving for redemption and salvation by Christ, of which the preceding chapter Isa 11:1 is a famous prophecy. It begins with an account of the church's former uncomfortable and now comfortable state and condition, Isa 12:1 the found…
527 wordsSECTION 130Isaiah 12:2
Isaiah 12:2 Ver. 2. Behold, God [is] my salvation,.... Or Saviour; that is, Christ, who is God, the great God, and so fit to be a Saviour, and is one, was appointed by the Father, provided in covenant, promised in the word, sent in the fulness of time, and is become the author of salvation, which a creature could not …
324 wordsSECTION 131Isaiah 12:3
Isaiah 12:3 Ver. 3. Therefore with joy shall ye draw water,.... These words are either an exhortation to others, as the Septuagint and Arabic versions render it, "draw ye"; and so likewise an encouragement to them by her example, or a prophecy that they should do this; that is, apply to Christ for grace, and receive i…
674 wordsSECTION 132Isaiah 12:4
Isaiah 12:4 Ver. 4. In that day shall ye say, praise the Lord,.... On account of his being and perfections, for blessings received from him, especially spiritual ones; and particularly such as are before mentioned, fulness of grace in him, strength and salvation by him, a view of interest in him as a Saviour, and divi…
522 wordsSECTION 133Isaiah 12:5
Isaiah 12:5 Ver. 5. Sing unto the Lord,.... Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, vocally and together, as Gospel churches, to the glory of God; or "sing the Lord" {u}, let him be the subject matter of the song, as in Isa 12:2 sing how great and good he is; sing what he is in himself, and what he is to others: for he h…
313 wordsSECTION 134Isaiah 12:6
Isaiah 12:6 Ver. 6. Cry out, and shout,.... By singing aloud, with the high praises of God in the mouth: thou inhabitant of Zion: born and brought up there, free of Zion, that is settled and dwells there, and so happy; since there plenty of provisions is had, health is enjoyed, and the inhabitants in the utmost safet…
273 wordsSECTION 135Isaiah 13:1
Isaiah 13:1 INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 13 This chapter contains a prophecy of the destruction of Babylon, literally understood as a type and exemplar of the destruction of the mystical Babylon, so often spoken of in the book of the Revelation: an account is given of the persons that should be the instruments of it, and o…
663 wordsSECTION 136Isaiah 13:2
Isaiah 13:2 Ver. 2. Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain,.... Or "upon the mountain Nishphah"; some high mountain in Media or Persia, proper to set a standard on, or erect a banner for the gathering men together, to enlist themselves as soldiers, and so form an army to march into the land of Chaldea. Vitringa th…
372 wordsSECTION 137Isaiah 13:3
Isaiah 13:3 Ver. 3. I have commanded my sanctified ones,.... The Medes and Persians, so called, not because sanctified by the Spirit of God, or made holy persons, through the regenerating and renewing grace of God, or purified by the blood of Christ, and prepared for glory; but because they were set apart in the mind …
346 wordsSECTION 138Isaiah 13:4
Isaiah 13:4 Ver. 4. The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people,.... That is, like the noise of a very numerous people; this noise was heard either on the mountains of Media, where they flocked in vast numbers to the standard set; or on the mountains upon the borders of Chaldea, when the army …
195 wordsSECTION 139Isaiah 13:5
Isaiah 13:5 Ver. 5. They come from a far country, from the end of heaven,.... The east, as Kimchi observes; the Targum is, from the ends of the earth; the furthermost parts of it, as Persia and Media were: the former is bounded on the south side by the main ocean; and the latter, part of it by the Caspian sea; and bet…
190 wordsSECTION 140Isaiah 13:6
Isaiah 13:6 Ver. 6. Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is at hand,.... These words are an address to the Babylonians, who instead of rejoicing and feasting, as Belshazzar and his nobles were the night that Babylon was taken, had reason to howl and lament; seeing the day that the Lord had fixed for their destruction was …
205 wordsSECTION 141Isaiah 13:7
Isaiah 13:7 Ver. 7. Therefore shall all hands be faint,.... Or hang down; that is, the hands of all the Babylonians, the city being taken suddenly and at once, so that they should not be able to lift them up to lay hold on a weapon, and defend themselves: and every man's heart shall melt; like wax before the fire; be…
84 wordsSECTION 142Isaiah 13:8
Isaiah 13:8 Ver. 8. And they shall be afraid,.... Troubled, dismayed, frightened, at the sudden taking of the city, and at the sight of Cyrus's troops marching up into the very heart of it, and to the king's palace: pangs and sorrow shall take hold of them; as convulsions, pains in the bowels, &c. more fully explaine…
282 wordsSECTION 143Isaiah 13:9
Isaiah 13:9 Ver. 9. Behold, the day of the Lord cometh,.... Or "is come" {e}; said in Isa 13:6 to be at hand, but now it is represented in prophecy as already come: cruel both with wrath and fierce anger; which, whether referred to "the Lord", or to "the day", the sense is the same; the day may be said to be cruel, a…
272 wordsSECTION 144Isaiah 13:10
Isaiah 13:10 Ver. 10. For the stars of heaven,.... This and what follows are to be understood, not literally, but figuratively, as expressive of the dismalness and gloominess of the dispensation, of the horror and terror of it, in which there was no light, no comfort, no relief, nor any hope of any; the heavens and al…
3,577 wordsSECTION 145Isaiah 14:1
Isaiah 14:1 INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 14 This chapter contains prophecies of the restoration of the Jews, of the fall of the king of Babylon, and the destruction of the Assyrian empire, and of the ruin of Palestine. The moving cause of the restoration of the Jews, and their settlement in their own land, is the distingui…
988 wordsSECTION 146Isaiah 14:2
Isaiah 14:2 Ver. 2. And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place,.... That is, the people among whom the Jews dwelt in Babylon, who had a kindness for them, and especially such of them as were proselyted to their religion should attend them in their journey home, and supply them with all necessaries f…
481 wordsSECTION 147Isaiah 14:3
Isaiah 14:3 Ver. 3. And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow,.... In captivity, and on account of that, being out of their own land, deprived of the free exercise of their religion, and at a distance from the house of God, and continually hearing the reproaches and blasph…
162 wordsSECTION 148Isaiah 14:4
Isaiah 14:4 Ver. 4. That thou shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon,.... Or "concerning" him, his fall, and the fall of the Babylonish monarchy with him; if we understand this of any particular king of Babylon, it seems best not to interpret it of Nebuchadnezzar, whom Jerom mentions, in whom the empir…
447 wordsSECTION 149Isaiah 14:5
Isaiah 14:5 Ver. 5. The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked,.... This is an answer to the above question, how the exactor and his tribute came to cease; this was not by man, but by the Lord himself; for though he made use of Cyrus, the work was his own, he broke the power of the wicked kings of Babylon: [and] th…
149 wordsSECTION 150Isaiah 14:6
Isaiah 14:6 Ver. 6. He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke,.... The king of Babylon, who made war with the people and nations of the earth, and conquered them, smote them with the edge of the sword to gratify his passions, and satiate his bloodthirsty mind; and those that were spared, he ruled with r…
264 wordsSECTION 151Isaiah 14:7
Isaiah 14:7 Ver. 7. The whole earth is at rest, [and] is quiet,.... The troubler of them being gone; and which will be the ease of the people of God, who in the latter day will fill the face of the earth, when the beast and false prophet will be taken and cast alive into the lake of fire; and especially when Satan sha…
210 wordsSECTION 152Isaiah 14:8
Isaiah 14:8 Ver. 8. Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, [and] the cedars of Lebanon,.... Which by, a prosopopoeia are represented as singing and rejoicing, as inanimate creatures often are in Scripture, these being now in no danger of being cut down, to make way for his armies; see Isa 37:34 or to furnish him with tim…
335 wordsSECTION 153Isaiah 14:9
Isaiah 14:9 Ver. 9. Hell from beneath is moved for thee,.... Or the "grave", or the place and state of the dead, and particularly of the damned, meaning those that are in such a place and state; and the sense is, that not only the inhabitants of the earth, and the trees upon it, express their joy at the fall of the ki…
485 wordsSECTION 154Isaiah 14:10
Isaiah 14:10 Ver. 10. All they shall speak, and say unto thee,.... So they would say, could they speak, and are here represented as if they did: art thou become also weak as we? who had been more powerful than they, had been too many for them, and had subdued them, and ruled over them, and was not only looked upon as…
259 wordsSECTION 155Isaiah 14:11
Isaiah 14:11 Ver. 11. Thy pomp is brought down to the grave,.... Or "hell"; all the state and majesty in which he appeared, when sitting on the throne of his kingdom, with a glittering crown on his head, a sceptre in his hand, clad in the richest apparel, and attended by his princes and nobles with the utmost reverenc…
7,019 wordsSECTION 156Isaiah 15:1
Isaiah 15:1 INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 15 This chapter is a prophecy of the destruction of the Moabites; two of their principal cities are mentioned as made desolate, Isa 15:1 the inhabitants in divers places are represented as weeping and mourning, and showing various signs of it, Isa 15:2 yea, not only the common peopl…
576 wordsSECTION 157Isaiah 15:2
Isaiah 15:2 Ver. 2. He is gone up to Bajith,.... That is, Moab; the king or people of Moab, particularly the inhabitants of the above cities. Bajith signifies house; and here a house of idolatry, as Kimchi interprets it; it was an idol's temple, very likely the temple of their god Chemosh, the same which is called Bet…
575 wordsSECTION 158Isaiah 15:3
Isaiah 15:3 Ver. 3. In their streets they shall girt themselves with sackcloth,.... Instead of their fine clothes, with which they had used to deck themselves, being a very proud people; see Isa 16:6 this was usual in times of distress on any account, as well as a token of mourning for the dead; see Joe 1:8. The word …
295 wordsSECTION 159Isaiah 15:4
Isaiah 15:4 Ver. 4. And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh,.... Two other cities in the land of Moab. The first of these was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who took it from the Moabites, Nu 21:25 it came into the hands of the Reubenites, Nu 32:3 and afterwards was again possessed by the Moabites, Jer 48:2. Joseph…
551 wordsSECTION 160Isaiah 15:5
Isaiah 15:5 Ver. 5. My heart shall cry out for Moab,.... These seem to be the words of the prophet, pitying them as they were fellow creatures, though enemies; which shows humanity in him, and signifies that their calamities were very great, that a stranger should be concerned for them, and such to whom they had been …
1,847 wordsSECTION 161Isaiah 16:1
Isaiah 16:1 INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 16 This chapter is a continuation of the prophecy against Moab; in which the prophet gives good advice, but in case of a haughty neglect of it, which he foresaw, threatens with ruin, and fixes a time for it. He advises the Moabites to pay their tribute to the king of Judah, or other…
976 wordsSECTION 162Isaiah 16:2
Isaiah 16:2 Ver. 2. For it shall be,.... Or, "otherwise it shall be" {z}; if ye do not pay this tribute: [that] as a wandering bird cast out of the nest: or, "as a wandering bird, the nest sent out": that is, as a bird that has forsaken its nest, and wanders about, and its young ones are turned out of the nest, scarc…
146 wordsSECTION 163Isaiah 16:3
Isaiah 16:3 Ver. 3. Take counsel, execute judgment,.... This refers either to what goes before, that they would take the counsel given, and do that which was just and right, by paying tribute to the king of Judah; or to what follows, that they would enter into a consultation, the king of Moab with his nobles, and reso…
236 wordsSECTION 164Isaiah 16:4
Isaiah 16:4 Ver. 4. Let mine outcasts dwell with thee,.... Not whom God had cast out, but who were the Lord's people, and whom he owns as such, though cast out by the enemy, or obliged to flee, and quit their country; let these be sojourners in thy land; let them continue awhile there; let them dwell privately and pea…
260 wordsSECTION 165Isaiah 16:5
Isaiah 16:5 Ver. 5. And in mercy shall the throne be established,.... That is, the throne of Hezekiah, and his government over Judah, which was more firmly settled and established after the overthrow of the Assyrian army, through the mercy of God vouchsafed to him, and on account of the mercy he exercised among his su…
298 wordsSECTION 166Isaiah 16:6
Isaiah 16:6 Ver. 6. We have heard of the pride of Moab,.... These are the words of the prophet, either in the name of the Lord, or in the person of the Jews, or of other nations, who had heard very frequently, and from many persons, and from every quarter, of the excessive pride of this people, and had many instances …
283 wordsSECTION 167Isaiah 16:7
Isaiah 16:7 Ver. 7. Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab,.... One Moabite shall mourn for another; the living for the dead; or one part of the country for another; or to Moab, they shall howl in turns, answering to one another: everyone shall howl: every Moabite, or the whole country of Moab shall howl, being everywher…
326 wordsSECTION 168Isaiah 16:8
Isaiah 16:8 Ver. 8. For the fields of Heshbon languish,.... Through drought; or because of the forage of the enemy, and their treading upon them; or because there were no men left to till and manure them. Of Heshbon See Gill on "Isa 15:4". It seems to have been a place famous for fields and pastures, and to have been …
384 wordsSECTION 169Isaiah 16:9
Isaiah 16:9 Ver. 9. Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah,.... That is, bewail the one, as he had done the other, both places with the fruits about them being destroyed by the enemy; or "therefore with weeping I will bewail" (most vehemently lament, an usual Hebraism) "Jazer", and "the v…
2,109 wordsSECTION 170Isaiah 17:1
Isaiah 17:1 INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 17 This chapter contains a prophecy of the ruin of Syria and Israel, the ten tribes; who were in alliance; and also of the overthrow of the Assyrian army, that should come against Judah. The destruction of Damascus, the metropolis of Syria, and of other cities, is threatened, Isa 17…
412 wordsSECTION 1712Co 11:32
2Co 11:32 and it shall be a ruinous heap; or a heap of stones, as the Targum and Kimchi interpret it. A "behold" is prefixed to the whole, as being very wonderful and remarkable, unthought of, and unexpected.…
39 wordsSECTION 172Isaiah 17:2
Isaiah 17:2 Ver. 2. The cities of Aroer are forsaken,.... The inhabitants of them being slain, or carried captive, or obliged to flee. Aroer was a city by the river Arnon, on the borders of Moab and Ammon, De 2:36 De 3:12, it was originally in the hands of the Amorites, and sometimes in the hands of the Moabites and A…
304 wordsSECTION 173Isaiah 17:3
Isaiah 17:3 Ver. 3. The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim,.... The ten tribes, now in confederacy with the Syrians, whose metropolis or fortress was Samaria, which seems to be intended here; and should be destroyed, at least taken out of the hands of the Israelites, and they be carried captive by Shalmaneser king…
248 wordsSECTION 174Isaiah 17:4
Isaiah 17:4 Ver. 4. And in that day it shall come to pass,.... It being much about the same time that both kingdoms were destroyed by the Assyrians: [that] the glory of Jacob shall be made thin; the same with Ephraim and Israel, the ten tribes, whose glory lay in the superior number of their tribes to Judah; in the m…
137 wordsSECTION 175Isaiah 17:5
Isaiah 17:5 Ver. 5. And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn,.... The "standing" corn, as in the Hebrew text: "and reapeth the ears with his arm"; or "his arm reaps the ears" {o}; that is, with one hand he gathers the standing corn into his fist, and then reaps it with his other arm; and just so it sh…
322 wordsSECTION 176Isaiah 17:6
Isaiah 17:6 Ver. 6. Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it,.... In Ephraim or Jacob; that is, in the ten tribes, a few of them should escape, a remnant should be saved; comparable, for the smallness of their number, to grapes that are gleaned after the vintage is got in: though Kimchi interprets it of the inhabitants…
503 wordsSECTION 177Isaiah 17:7
Isaiah 17:7 Ver. 7. At that day shall a man look to his Maker,.... The one only living and true God, who has made him, and not he himself, nor any other creature; that is, such as are left, as before described, the remnant, according to the election of grace; these shall look to God for help and assistance, for supply…
242 wordsSECTION 178Isaiah 17:8
Isaiah 17:8 Ver. 8. And he shall not took to the altars, the work of his hands,.... That is, to altars erected to the worship of idols, which are both the works of men's hands, so as to serve at them, and sacrifice upon them. Kimchi observes, that the latter clause is not to be understood as belonging to the former, b…
359 wordsSECTION 179Isaiah 17:9
Isaiah 17:9 Ver. 9. In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch,.... Meaning the strong cities of Ephraim or Jacob, the ten tribes, which should be forsaken of their inhabitants; having fled from before the enemy, or being slain or carried captive; like a bough of a tree, that i…
291 wordsSECTION 180Isaiah 17:10
Isaiah 17:10 Ver. 10. Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation,.... Who had been the author of salvation to them many a time, in Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in various instances since; and yet they had forgot his works of mercy and goodness, and had left his worship, and gone after idols; and this was the c…
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