Isaiah 13:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished. ”

• Isaiah 13:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Their children also shall be dashed to pieces - This is a description of the horrors of the capture of Babylon; and there can be none more frightful and appalling than that which is here presente...

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• Isaiah 13:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Their (n) children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be plundered, and their wives ravished. (n) This was not accomplished when Cyrus took Babylon, but after the d...

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• Isaiah 13:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Isaiah 13:1 to Isaiah 14:23 . The Utter Ruin of Babylon and Triumphal Ode over her Monarch's Death. Historical conditions are here presupposed entirely different from those of Isaiah's time. The...

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• Isaiah 13:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  children . babes.

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• Isaiah 13:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  16. Their children shall be dashed in pieces. He draws a picture of extreme cruelty. It is the utmost pitch of ferocity exercised by an invading army, when no age is spared, and infants, who...

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• Isaiah 13:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.

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• Isaiah 13:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Therefore I will shake the heavens— Every one who reads and compares these words with those preceding, must observe, that they contain an explanation of what the prophet had said concerning the mig...

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• Isaiah 13:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished. ( Psalms 137:8-9 .)

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• Isaiah 13:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1. Burden ] The corresponding verb means 'to lift up' ( a ) a load, ( b ) the voice (cp. Isaiah 3:7 ; Isaiah 42:2 ; Isaiah 42:11 ), used of Balaam lifting up his voice in oracular utterance ( Num...

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• Isaiah 13:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Their children also shall be dashed. — Better, their sucklings. The words of the prediction seem to have been in the minds of the exiles in Babylon when they uttered their dread beatitude on thos...

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• Isaiah 13:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  BOOK 5 PROPHECIES NOT RELATING TO ISAIAH'S TIME In the first thirty-nine Chapter s of the Book of Isaiah-the half which refers to the prophet's own career and the politics contemporary with that...

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• Isaiah 13:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  We now commence the second circle of the first division of our book, in which are contained Isaiah's prophecies concerning the nations and the world. The first describes the doom of Babylon. Whereas...

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• Isaiah 13:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  In these verses we have a continuation of the subject concerning the destruction of Babylon, with the effects to be wrought by it on all the people. And, what is very observable, so hardened against...

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• Isaiah 13:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes ,.... Upon the ground, or against the wall, as was foretold should be, Psalms 137:8 and in way of retaliation for what they did to t...

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• Isaiah 13:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished. Ver. 16. Their children shall be dashed in pieces, &c. ] As had been p...

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• Isaiah 13:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  I will punish the world The Babylonish empire, which is called the world, as the Roman empire afterward was, ( Luke 2:1 ,) because it was extended to a great part of the world, and because it was v...

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• Isaiah 13:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Doom of Babylon. B. C. 739.       6 Howl ye; for the day of the L ORD is at hand; it...

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• Isaiah 13:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes, as a just recompence for the like cruelty acted by them upon the Jews, 2 Chronicles 36:17 , which also was foretold, Psalms 137...

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• Isaiah 13:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Apocalyptic Destruction of Babylon ( Isaiah 13:6-16 ). The forces having been gathered by Yahweh on the remoteness of the bare mountain, they are to be unleashed in ‘the Day of Yahweh', and it...

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• Isaiah 13:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  THE DOOM OF THE CHILDREN OF BABYLON Isaiah 13:16 . Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes . Consider this terrible declaration— I. As it regards man . 1. As a revelat...

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• Isaiah 13:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  In the thirteen Chapter s which follow, the prophet, like a watchman, raises his voice, and denounces woes against all the surrounding nations, and finally against his own country. Isaiah 13:1 . T...

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• Isaiah 13:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THE BURDEN OF BABYLON . The series of prophecies which commences with this chapter and continues to the close of Isaiah 23:1-23 ; is connected together by the word massa , bu...

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• Isaiah 13:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Against Babylon in Particular

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• Isaiah 13:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Hosea 10:14 ; Lamentations 5:11 ; Nahum 3:10 ; Psalms 137:8 ; Psalms 137:9 ; Zechariah 14:2

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