Isaiah 16:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Takeb counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; betray not him that wandereth. ”

• Isaiah 16:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Take counsel - Hebrew, ‘Bring counsel;’ or cause it to come ( הבאו hâbı̂'ı̂û , or as it is in the keri הביאי ). The Vulgate, renders this in the singular number, and so is the keri , and...

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• Isaiah 16:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Take counsel, execute judgment; (c) make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; discover not him that wandereth. (c) He shows what Moab would have done, when Israel...

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• Isaiah 16:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Moabites now in Sela, a city of Edom ( 2 Kings 14:7 *; cf. Judges 1:36 , mg.*), exhort each other to send the tribute of lambs once paid to Israel ( 2 Kings 3:4 ) to Jerusalem to secure her...

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• Isaiah 16:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Take counsel . Bring advice. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "Bring thou counsel". execute judgment . perform an arbitrator's duty. Hebrew. pel...

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• Isaiah 16:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  3. Assemble a council. (252) He proceeds with the same subject; for if we wish rightly to understand this passage, we must set before our minds the dreadful ruin of the Moabites. Their crim...

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• Isaiah 16:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth. Take counsel "Impart counsel" - The Vulgate renders the ver...

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• Isaiah 16:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Take counsel, &c.— We have here the second counsel given to the Moabites; wherein, first, is the counsel itself; Isaiah 16:3-4 and the reason of the counsel;—middle of the fourth and the fi...

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• Isaiah 16:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth. Take counsel, execute judgment ... - Take measures...

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• Isaiah 16:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1. RV 'Send ye the lambs for the ruler of the land from Sela which is toward the wilderness,' etc. Mesha, king of Moab, had rendered to Israel tribute of lambs and rams ( 2 Kings 3:4 ). The proph...

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• Isaiah 16:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Continuing the prophecy concerning Moab, the prophet proceeds to describe how in her distress she will appeal to Judah for sanctuary Isaiah 16:1-5 ). This will be refused, and so great will be the d...

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• Isaiah 16:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  It appears, that in the days of David, Moab was under tribute to Israel, and paid gifts 2 Samuel 8:2 . And it should seem, that Moab had at the time of the Prophet's ministry, withdrawn her allegian...

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• Isaiah 16:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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...

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• Isaiah 16:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth. Ver. 3. Take counsel, execute judgment. ] Or, Make a d...

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• Isaiah 16:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Take counsel , &c. We have here the second counsel given to the Moabites, which “contains a complex of various offices, equity, justice, humanity, to be exercised toward those of the Israelites...

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• Isaiah 16:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Exhortations to Moab. B. C. 725.       1 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela t...

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• Isaiah 16:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Take counsel; consider seriously among yourselves what course to take to prevent your utter ruin. Execute judgment; do those things which are just and right, as to all men, so particularly to my...

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• Isaiah 16:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Moab's Consideration of An Appeal to the King of Judah ( Isaiah 16:1-5 ). Analysis of Isaiah 16:1-5 . a Send the lambs, for the ruler of the land, from Sela which is towards the wilderness, to t...

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• Isaiah 16:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Isaiah 16:1 . Send ye the lamb from Sela to the wilderness, to the mount of the daughter of Zion. Send the tribute of the lambs from all the towns of Moab, and seek alliance with the house of Davi...

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• Isaiah 16:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Isaiah 16:1-23 THE BURDEN OF MOAB ( CONTINUED ). This portion of the "burden" is divided into three sections. In section 1 (from Isaiah 16:1 to the end of Isaiah 16:5...

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• Isaiah 16:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Conditions of Deliverance

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• Isaiah 16:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Daniel 4:27 ; Ezekiel 45:9-12 ; Hebrews 13:2 ; Isaiah 1:17 ; Isaiah 25:4 ; Isaiah 32:2 ; Isaiah 56:8 ; Isaiah 9:6 ; Jeremiah 21:12 ; Jeremiah 22:3 ; Jonah 4:5-8 ; Judges 9:15 ; Matthew 2...

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• Isaiah 16:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Take counsel — Consider seriously what course to take. Shadow — Or, as the shadow of the night, large and dark, as the shadow of the earth is in the night — season. Conceal and protect my people in...

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