Isaiah 21:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the residue of the number of archers,f the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it. ”

• Isaiah 21:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And the residue of the number - That is, those who shall be left in the invasion. Or perhaps it may be read, ‘There shall be a renmant of the number of bowmen; the mighty people of Kedar shall be...

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• Isaiah 21:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And the remainder of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of (x) Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken [it]. (x) Which was the name of a people of Arabi...

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• Isaiah 21:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Oracle on the Dedanites. Date and authorship are unknown. If by Isaiah it may refer to an expected invasion in 720 or 711. Probably Isaiah 21:16 f, is an appendix, the original oracle, Isaiah 21...

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• Isaiah 21:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  mighty men. Hebrew. gibbor . App-14. children . sons.

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• Isaiah 21:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  17. And the residue of the archers. He threatens that this slaughter will not be the end of their evils, because if there be any residue in Arabia, they will gradually decrease; as if he had...

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• Isaiah 21:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it . The archers, the mighty men of the children of Ked...

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• Isaiah 21:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  For thus hath the Lord said, &c.— Hitherto the prophet had spoken figuratively: he now ceases to do so. This period contains, first, the circumstance of the time connected with the execution...

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• Isaiah 21:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it. The residue ... diminished - the remnant of...

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• Isaiah 21:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Judgment upon Arabia This section concerns the N. Arabian tribes. For the occasion see prefatory note on Isaiah 21:11 ; Isaiah 21:12 . 13-17. Owing to the incursions of the As Syrians the Ded...

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• Isaiah 21:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  In this chapter we have prophecies concerning Babylon, Dumah, and Arabia. With regard to Babylon, the prophet has seen the vision of the whirlwind sweeping against it, and so terrible is it that he i...

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• Isaiah 21:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  The Arabians and Dedanims are here brought in for a portion of the calamities now hanging over the countries to be made desolate. It is probable, that the latter were the descendants of Dedan, a son...

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• Isaiah 21:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And the residue of the number of archers ,.... Or of "bow" g, for "bows": that is, of men that use the bow, or are expert at it, as the Kedarenes were, both for taking wild beasts, and fighting with...

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• Isaiah 21:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken [it]. Ver. 17. And the residue of the number of arche...

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• Isaiah 21:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  For thus hath the Lord said Hitherto the prophet had spoken figuratively: now he ceases to do so; within a year From the time of the delivery of this prophecy, according to the years of a hireli...

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• Isaiah 21:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Doom of Arabia. B. C. 714.       13 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shal...

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• Isaiah 21:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Archers; bows and arrows were their: chief weapons, and they were expert in the use of them, both against beasts and men, as occasion required.

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• Isaiah 21:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Chapter 21 The Burdens on The Wilderness of the Sea, on Dumah and on Arabia. We now come to the second five of the ten burdens. And here we pause to note the careful way in which the prophecy has...

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• Isaiah 21:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Isaiah 21:1 . The desert of the sea. The army which invaded Babylon came not directly against it; but Cyrus made a circuitous route, and collected part of his army from the deserts and mountains t...

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• Isaiah 21:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

  The burden upon Arabia Arabia The term “Arabia,” in the Old Testament, is not used in such a wide sense as in modern English, and denotes merely a particular, tribe, having its home in the nort...

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• Isaiah 21:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Isaiah 21:1-23 THE BURDEN OF THE DESERT OF THE SEA . This is a short and somewhat vague, but highly poetic, "burden of Babylon" It is probably an earlier prophecy...

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• Isaiah 21:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Against Edom and Arabia

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• Isaiah 21:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Isaiah 1:20 ; Isaiah 10:18 ; Isaiah 10:19 ; Isaiah 17:4 ; Isaiah 17:5 ; Jeremiah 44:29 ; Matthew 24:35 ; Numbers 23:19 ; Psalms 107:39 ; Zechariah 1:6

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