Isaiah 20:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ At the same time spake the LORD bya Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. ”

Isaiah 20:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

By Isaiah - Margin, ‘By the hand of Isaiah.’ So the Hebrew. That is, by the instrumentality of Isaiah. He sent him to make known the fate of the Egyptians, and the folly of trusting in them on th...
Isaiah 20:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

At the same time spoke the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the (d) sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. (...
Isaiah 20:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 20. The Sign of Egypt's Overthrow. The year in which the Assyrian Tartan, or commander-in-chief, came to Ashdod was 711. This city had been in negotiation with Egypt against Assyria, and so...
Isaiah 20:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the same . that. by . by the hand of. Isaiah. See note on Isaiah 13:1 . naked. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of the Whole), for being scantily clad.
Isaiah 20:2 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

2. Go and loose the sackcloth from thy loins. In order to confirm this prophecy by the use of a symbol, the Lord commanded Isaiah to walk naked. If Isaiah had done this of his own accord, he...
Isaiah 20:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. Walkin...
Isaiah 20:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Spake the Lord by Isaiah, &c.— Or, To Isaiah, &c. By sackcloth is meant the hairy garment usually worn by prophets. By naked is meant, no more than that the prophet went without his u...
Isaiah 20:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot....
Isaiah 20:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Egypt's Captivity symbolised This chapter is assigned in the title to the time when Sargon besieged Ashdod (711 b.c.). The Philistine city was at that time the centre of revolt. Sargon interposed...
Isaiah 20:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XI DRIFTING TO EGYPT 720-705 13. B.C. Isaiah 20:1-6 ; Isaiah 21:1-10 ; Isaiah 38:1-22 ; Isaiah 39:1-8 FROM 720, when chapter 11 may have been published, to 705-or, by rough reckoni...
Isaiah 20:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Yet the prophet sees hope even for Egypt. He describes the process. The result of the judgment will be fear, and in the case of a part of Egypt at least this will issue in submission to Jehovah. Wher...
Isaiah 20:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

It is probable that this event of Tartar's taking Ashdod, formed an epoch in history, so remarkable, that the year needed not to be recorded. And no doubt that the prophet's going about bare-foot, an...
Isaiah 20:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

At the same time spake the Lord by Isaiah the son of Amoz ,.... Or, "by the hand of Isaiah", by his means; and it was to him likewise, as the following words show; and so the Septuagint version rend...
Isaiah 20:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. Ver....
Isaiah 20:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Go loose the sackcloth from off thy loins By the sackcloth is meant either the hairy garment usually worn by the prophets, or a mournful habit, such as was commonly made of sackcloth which he wore...
Isaiah 20:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Threatenings against Egypt. B. C. 713. 1 In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when...
Isaiah 20:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Loose the sackcloth; ungird it and put it off; the antecedent put for the consequent, which is very usual, as hath been often noted. God would sometimes have his prophets to add to their word a vis...
Isaiah 20:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘In the year that the Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it, at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go and l...
Isaiah 20:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 20:1 . Tartan is mentioned as the general-in-chief to Sennacherib, when he summoned Jerusalem. 2 Kings 18:17 . Sargon is supposed to be one of Sennacherib's names; for kings assumed new...
Isaiah 20:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins Isaiah stripped and barefooted Owing to the great importance which is attributed to clothing from the standpoint of Oriental culture and manners, a...
Isaiah 20:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Isaiah 20:1-23 A PROPHECY AGAINST EGYPT AND ETHIOPIA . The Assyrian inscriptions enable us to date this prophecy with a near approach to exactness. Ashdod was besieged b...
Isaiah 20:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Symbol of Egypt's and Ethiopia's Fall.
Isaiah 20:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 19:24 ; 2 Kings 1:8 ; 2 Samuel 6:20 ; Acts 19:16 ; Exodus 3:5 ; Ezekiel 24:17 ; Ezekiel 24:23 ; Ezekiel 4:5 ; Jeremiah 13:1-11 ; Jeremiah 19:1-15 ; Job 1:20 ; Job 1:21 ; John 21...
Isaiah 20:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Sackcloth — Which he wore in token of his grief for the calamities that were already come upon Israel, and were coming upon Judah. Naked — Not wholly naked, but without his upper garment, as slaves...

Isaiah 20:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 20:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 20:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 20:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 20:2 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 20:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 20:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 20:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 20:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 20:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 20:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 20:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 20:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 20:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 20:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 20:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 20:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 20:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 20:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 20:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 20:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 20:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 20:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 20:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes