Isaiah 2:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks:b nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. ”

• Isaiah 2:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And he shall judge - Or he shall exercise the office of a judge, or umpire. This “literally” refers to the God of Jacob Isaiah 2:3 , though it is clear that the meaning is, that he will do it by...

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• Isaiah 2:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And (g) he shall judge among the nations, and shall (h) rebuke many people: and they shall (i) beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword ag...

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• Isaiah 2:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Zion the World's Religious Centre, and the Reign of Universal Peace. The title in Isaiah 2:1 is a later addition, unrelated to the important oracle Isaiah 2:2-4 . This oracle, with verbal differ...

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• Isaiah 2:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  swords. spears. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of the Part), for all kinds of weapons; while plowshares and pruning-hooks put by the same Figure, for all implements of peace. The signs are F...

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• Isaiah 2:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  4. And he shall judge among the nations He means that the doctrine will be like a king’s scepter, that God may rule among all nations; for, by a figure of speech in which a part is taken for...

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• Isaiah 2:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation...

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• Isaiah 2:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against na...

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• Isaiah 2:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  2-4. occur also with a few slight variations in Micah 4:1-4 . The passage appears to be borrowed in Isaiah, because ( a ) it suits its context better in Micah, and ( b ) it is more complete in Mic...

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• Isaiah 2:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  He shall judge among the nations. — For “rebuke” read decide or arbitrate. The ideal Divine King is to be all, and more than all, that Solomon had been ( 1 Kings 10:24 ). In reliance on His wis...

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• Isaiah 2:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER II THE THREE JERUSALEMS 740-735 B.C. Isaiah 2:1-22 ; Isaiah 3:1-26 ; Isaiah 4:1-6 AFTER the general introduction, in chapter 1, to the prophecies of Isaiah, there comes another port...

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• Isaiah 2:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  a Vision of World Peace Isaiah 2:1-11 This and the four following Chapter s must be classed together as a distinct portion of this book, belonging to the earliest years of Isaiah's ministry. Th...

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• Isaiah 2:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Following this broad statement of the case between Jehovah and His people, we have the prophet's great appeal to them. The first part constitutes a vision of the latter days, that condition toward wh...

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• Isaiah 2:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  The prophet Micah had a similar commission in his day to deliver, and he executed it almost in the same words: see Micah 4:1-5 . There are several very blessed promises delivered by both the Lord's...

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• Isaiah 2:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And he shall judge among the nations ,.... Or, "it shall judge"; either the mountain of the Lord's house, as Abarbinel thinks, that is, the church; for in the spiritual reign of Christ, in the latte...

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• Isaiah 2:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation...

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• Isaiah 2:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  He shall judge among the nations He shall set up and exercise his authority, in and over all nations, not only giving laws to them, as other rulers do, but doing that which no others can do, convin...

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• Isaiah 2:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Increase of the Church Predicted. B. C. 758.       1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw...

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• Isaiah 2:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  He shall judge among the nations; Christ shall set up and use his authority among and over all nations, not only giving laws to them, as other rulers do, but doing that which no other powers can do...

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• Isaiah 2:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Isaiah 2:2-4 is in fact repeated with minor variations in Micah 4:1-3 . It is quite probable that Micah received the words from the master. Analysis of Isaiah 2:1-5 . a The word that Isaiah the...

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• Isaiah 2:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  ISAIAH’S VISION OF THE LAST DAYS Isaiah 2:1-5 . The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw, &c. 1. The marvellous power of the ancient prophets in giving embodiment and figure to the Word of G...

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• Isaiah 2:4 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Isaiah 2:4 We are asked how, with such passages written in sunbeams in the Book which we hold to be divine, we can regard with any complacency the acts and character of a warrior. I. The old prop...

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• Isaiah 2:4 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Isaiah 2:1-2 . The word that Isaiah the son of Amos saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the...

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• Isaiah 2:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Isaiah 2:1 . The word that Isaiah saw. In these distressing times, when the Jewish church and state were shaken to the very centre, the Messiah spoke to the prophet, and showed him the new-testame...

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• Isaiah 2:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

  And it shall come to pass in the last days Isaiah’s description of the last days The description of “the last days”--which in the Hebrew begins, “And it hath come to pass. .. the mountainof Jeh...

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• Isaiah 2:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  SECTION II . DENUNCIATION OF GOD 'S JUDGMENTS UPON HIS PEOPLE ( CH . 2-5.). EXPOSITION Isaiah 2:1 TITLE OF THE CHAPTER . It is generally allowed that the heading bel...

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• Isaiah 2:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Gentiles Called to the Kingdom

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• Isaiah 2:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 2:10 ; Acts 17:31 ; Hosea 2:18 ; Isaiah 11:3 ; Isaiah 11:4 ; Isaiah 11:6-9 ; Isaiah 60:17 ; Isaiah 60:18 ; Isaiah 9:7 ; Joel 3:10 ; John 16:8-11 ; Micah 4:3 ; Psalms 110:6 ; Ps...

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• Isaiah 2:4 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Christ in Isaiah Isaiah 2:1-22 INTRODUCTORY WORDS When Isaiah saw Christ in this chapter he saw Him in His Second Advent glory. Peter, in the Spirit, wrote of how the Prophets foretold the suf...

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• Isaiah 2:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  He — Christ shall set up his authority among all nations, not only giving laws to them, but doing what no other can do, convincing their consciences, changing their hearts, and ordering their lives...

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