Isaiah 28:21-29

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 28:14-22

The prophet, having reproved those that made a jest of the word of God, here goes on to reprove those that made a jest of the judgments of God, and set them at defiance; for he is a jealous God, and w 6716 ill not suffer either his ordinances or his providences to be brought into contempt. He addressed himself to the scornful men who ruled in Jerusalem, who were the magistrates of the city, Isa. 28:14. It is bad with a people when their thrones of judgment become the seats of the scornful,... read more

Matthew Henry

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 28:21

For the Lord shall rise up as in Mount Perazim ,.... Where the Lord broke forth on David's enemies the Philistines, as the breach of waters; see Isaiah 28:17 and destroyed them, from whence the place had the name of Baalperazim, 2 Samuel 5:20 . The Targum is, "for as the mountain which moved when the glory of the Lord was revealed in the days of Uzziah the king;' referring to the earthquake in his time, Amos 1:1 , he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon ; Josephus Ben... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 28:22

Now therefore be ye not mockers ,.... At the words of the prophets, and the judgments denounced by them, which is very common, when they are deferred, and not immediately executed: this was the case before the destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans, and one cause of it, 2 Chronicles 36:16 and also by the Romans; see Acts 13:41 , lest your bands be made strong ; punishment become heavier, and more grievous; and so the Syriac version renders it; as prisoners that attempt to make... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 28:23

Give ye ear, and hear my voice ,.... So said the prophet, as the Targum introduces the words; and because what he was about to say was of importance, and delivered in a parabolical manner, and required attention, he makes use of a variety of words to the same purpose, to engage their attention: hearken, and hear my speech ; now about to be made; listen to it, and get the understanding of it. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 28:24

Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow ?.... Or, "every day"; he ploughs in order to sow; by ploughing he prepares the ground for sowing, that is his end in ploughing; and he may plough a whole day together when he is at it, but he does not plough every day in the year; he has other work to do besides ploughing, as is later mentioned; such as breaking of clods, sowing seed, and threshing the grain after it is ripe, and reaped, and gathered. The prophet signifies that the Lord, like a... 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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 28:26

For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him. God gives the husbandman instruction and discretion how to sow his seed, at what time, and in a proper place; for this refers to what goes before; though some think a new act is here intended, namely, threshing or beating out of corn, rendering the words, "and he" (the husbandman) "beateth it out, according to the discretion", or "judgment, his God teaches him" F8 "Excutit illud ad eam rationem, quam Deus, ipsius docet... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 28:27

For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument ,.... A wooden sledge, dray, or cart, drawn on wheels; the bottom of which was stuck with iron teeth, and the top filled with stones, to press it down with the weight thereof, and was drawn by horses, or oxen, to and fro, over the sheaves of corn, laid in proper order, whereby the grain was separated from the husk: See Gill on 1 Corinthians 9:9 but fitches, the grain of them being more easily separated, such an instrument was not... read more

John Gill

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

Bread corn is bruised ,.... The corn which bread is made of is bruised and ground in a mill: because he will not always be threshing it ; for there is another way of bringing it to flour, that so it may be made bread, namely, by grinding it in a mill; and therefore the husbandman uses his discretion in threshing it; he will not thresh it too much, nor too long, no more than what is necessary to get out the grain, but will take care that he does not bruise and break it; as follows: ... read more

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