Isaiah 14:26 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. ”

• Isaiah 14:26 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  This is the purpose - This is the sum of the whole design - a design that embraces the destruction both of the king of Assyria, and of Babylon. Upon the whole earth - The successive kingdoms...

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• Isaiah 14:26 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Destruction of Assyria . This is usually regarded as a genuine fragment by Isaiah, asserting, as in Isaiah 10:5-34 , the approaching destruction of Assyria in Palestine, and uttered probably no...

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• Isaiah 14:26 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  purpose. hand. Note the Alternation of these two words in Isaiah 14:26 and Isaiah 14:27 . stretched out: i.e. in judgment.

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• Isaiah 14:26 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  26. This purpose which is purposed upon the whole earth. The Lord is not satisfied with one or two confirmations, and can scarcely refrain from proclaiming it more and more abundantly, becau...

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• Isaiah 14:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.

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• Isaiah 14:26 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  The Lord of Hosts hath sworn— This period, though of a peculiar and different, is not of a totally foreign argument: it contains the epilogue and conclusion of the foregoing prophesy. As what the p...

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• Isaiah 14:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: -CONFIRMATION OF THIS BY THE HERE-FORETOLD DESTRUCTION OF T...

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• Isaiah 14:26 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1. Strangers ] The thought of the voluntary adhesion of strangers is prominent in the later Chapter s of the book ( Isaiah 44:5 ; Isaiah 55:5 ; Isaiah 60:5 ).

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• Isaiah 14:26 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  This is the hand that is stretched out ... — The words point, as it were, to the idea of a universal history. The fall of the Assyrian power and of Babylon does not stand alone, but forms part of a...

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• Isaiah 14:26 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER XXVII BABYLON AND LUCIFER DATE UNCERTAIN Isaiah 13:1-22 ; Isaiah 14:1-23 THIS double oracle is against the City Isaiah 13:2-22 ; Isaiah 14:1-2 and the Tyrant Isaiah 14:3-23 of B...

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• Isaiah 14:26 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  In this section we have three prophecies: concerning Assyria Isaiah 14:24-27 ), concerning Philistia Isaiah 14:28-32 ), and the commencement of one concerning Moab (15). This fragment concerning As...

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• Isaiah 14:26 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  I do not interrupt the reading through this long chain of the most wonderful events, because it forms one grand whole. The destruction which will ultimately fall upon the enemies of God and of his Ch...

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• Isaiah 14:26 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  This [is] the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth , c] Or, "counsel that is counselled". The Targum is, "all the inhabitants of the earth'' and the Septuagint version, "the whole world",...

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• Isaiah 14:26 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  This [is] the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this [is] the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. Ver. 26. This is the purpose that is purposed. ] Heb., The council t...

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• Isaiah 14:26 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The Lord of hosts hath sworn , &c. Here begins another prophecy against the Assyrians, which was to be fulfilled much sooner than the foregoing, even in the life-time of the prophet. But, “thoug...

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• Isaiah 14:26 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Doom of the Assyrians; The Doom of the Philistines. B. C. 726.       24 The L ORD of ho...

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• Isaiah 14:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Upon the whole earth; upon this vast empire, now in the hands of the Assyrians, and shortly to come into the hands of the Babylonians. The whole earth is put synecdochically for a great part of i...

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• Isaiah 14:26 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Judgment on Assyria ( Isaiah 14:24-27 ). But the reader is asking, what of Assyria? Thus Assyria is dealt with briefly and for the last time judgmentwise in this section. To Isaiah it is of no mor...

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• Isaiah 14:26 - Scofield Reference Notes

  whole earth This universality is significant and marks the whole passage as referring, not merely to a near judgment upon Assyria, but in a yet larger sense to the final crash of the present w...

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• Isaiah 14:26 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Isaiah 14:1 . For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of J...

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• Isaiah 14:26 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Isaiah 14:1 . And set them in their own land. This prediction is so correct, as appears from the books of Nehemiah and Ezra, that no man can doubt the truth of prophecy; and its literal accomplish...

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• Isaiah 14:26 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Isaiah 14:1-23 THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL , AND HER SONG OF TRIUMPH OVER BABYLON . The destruction of Babylon is to be followed by the restoration of Israel, w...

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• Isaiah 14:26 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Prophecies Against Assyria and Philistia

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• Isaiah 14:26 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Isaiah 5:25 ; Zephaniah 3:6-8

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• Isaiah 14:26 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The earth — Upon this vast empire, now in the hands of the Assyrians, and shortly to come into the hands of the Babylonians. The hand — The providence of God executing his purpose.

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