Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 2:8-9
Isaiah 2:8-9. Their land also is full of idols Every city had its god, (Jeremiah 11:13,) and, according to the goodness and fertility of their lands, they made goodly images, Hosea 10:1. They worship the work of their own hands They gave that worship to their own creatures, to the images which their own fancies had devised, and their own fingers had made, which they denied to JEHOVAH their Creator, than which nothing could be more impious or more absurd. And the mean man boweth down, ... read more
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 2:7
Isaiah 2:7. Their land also is full of silver, &c. They have heaped up riches immoderately, and still are greedily pursuing after more. Lowth thinks the prophet is especially reproving those who, in the midst of the public calamities, made no conscience of enriching themselves by oppression and injustice. Their land also is full of horses Which even their kings were forbidden to multiply, (as they were also forbidden to multiply gold and silver,) and much more the people. In the... read more