Isaiah 19:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts. ”

Isaiah 19:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the Egyptians - The Egyptian nation; the entire people, though divided into factions and contending with each other. Will I give over - Margin, ‘Shut up.’ The Hebrew word ( סכר sākar )...
Isaiah 19:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 19. Oracle on Egypt. This is one of the most difficult Chapter s in the book. It falls into two sections, Isaiah 19:1-17 and Isaiah 19:18-25 . If Isaiah 19:1-17 is in the main from Isai...
Isaiah 19:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

cruel lord. Sing, adjective with plural noun. the lord of the nations, as the kings of Assyria called themselves.
Isaiah 19:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

4. And I will deliver the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel master. (28) He now shews what will happen to the Egyptians, after having lost courage and been deprived of understanding. Nothi...
Isaiah 19:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts. A cruel lord "Cruel lords" - Nebuchadnezzar in the first p...
Isaiah 19:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And the Egyptians will I give over, &c.— The second calamity is here described, which is the chief, and the description whereof makes the body of this prophesy. The sum of it is, that Egypt f...
Isaiah 19:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts. The Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a...
Isaiah 19:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Judgment, on Egypt A prophecy concerning Egypt, probably belonging to the same period as Isaiah 18 , and designed to show the speedy collapse of Egypt's power, on which a strong political par...
Isaiah 19:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

These two Chapter s (19, 20) contain the burden of Egypt. Its doom is first declared (19: 1-15). Jehovah's advent will result in the destruction of idols, in civil war, in failure in counsel, and in...
Isaiah 19:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Here is the same subject of national distress for the burden of Egypt, as that of Damascus or Moab, though the end differs: foreign wars, and domestic jealousies are predicted: so that every man's ha...
Isaiah 19:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the Egyptians will I give over into the hands of a cruel lord ,.... Not of Sennacherib king of Assyria, which way go many interpreters, both Christian and Jewish, as Aben Ezra, Jarchi, and Kimch...
Isaiah 19:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts. Ver. 4. And the Egyptians will I give over. ] Heb., Shu...
Isaiah 19:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Egyptians will I give into the hand of a cruel lord , &c. This is the second calamity here threatened, and the most essential part of the prophecy; and “it may with great truth and propriety...
Isaiah 19:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Doom of Egypt. B. C. 710. 1 The burden of Egypt. Behold, the L ORD rideth upon a sw...
Isaiah 19:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

A fierce king; either, 1. The king of Assyria or Chaldea; or, 2. Those twelve petty kings, the singular number being put for the plural; or, 3. Psammetichus, who being at first one of those t...
Isaiah 19:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And the spirit of Egypt will be made void in its midst, and I will destroy its counsel, and they will seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to those who have familiar spirits, and to the wizar...
Isaiah 19:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 19:4 . A cruel lord. Such was Nebuchadnezzar; and after him, Cambyses, and other Persian kings. One oppression succeeded another, as illustrated in Daniel 11 . Isaiah 19:11 . The prince...
Isaiah 19:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Isaiah 19:1-23 THE BURDEN OF EGYPT . It has been doubted whether this prophecy refers to the conquest of Egypt by Piankhi, as related in the monument which he set up at Na...
Isaiah 19:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Threat of Destruction
Isaiah 19:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 23:7 ; Ezekiel 29:19 ; Isaiah 19:2 ; Isaiah 20:4 ; Jeremiah 46:26 ; Psalms 31:8
Isaiah 19:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

A fierce king — Psammetichus, who being at first one of those twelve kings, waged war with the rest, and subdued them, and conquered all the land of Egypt and ruled it with rigour.

Isaiah 19:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 19:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 19:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 19:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 19:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 19:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 19:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 19:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 19:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 19:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 19:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 19:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 19:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 19:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 19:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 19:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 19:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 19:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 19:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 19:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 19:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes