Isaiah 28:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: ”

Isaiah 28:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For precept must be upon precept - This is probably designed to ridicule the concise and sententious manner of the prophets, and especially the fact that they dwelt much upon the same elementary...
Isaiah 28:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

For (i) precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little: (i) They must have one thing often repeated.
Isaiah 28:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jerusalem also is Threatened with Destruction. But Jerusalem like Ephraim reels with intoxication, the priests and prophets especially. The prophet is not steady in his vision, the priest when pron...
Isaiah 28:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

For . For [say they] mimicking the prophet as though he were teaching little children in. school. must be: or, [hath been]. The verse then reads: "For it is zav lazav, zav lazav kav lakav, kav l...
Isaiah 28:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

10. For precept must be on precept. This shews plainly that the Lord complains of spending his labor to no purpose in instructing this unteachable people, just as if one were to teach childr...
Isaiah 28:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: For precept must be upon precept - The original is remarkably abrupt and...
Isaiah 28:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Whom shall he teach knowledge?— This period, though different in words, is the same in sense with that preceding. The meaning is, that the teachers, priests, and elders of the people, whose duty it...
Isaiah 28:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people, -The prophet now turns to Judah, a gracious promise to the remnant ("re...
Isaiah 28:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

This chapter must be assigned ( Isaiah 28:1 ) to a date prior to the capture of Samaria by the Assyrians (722 b.c.) and fall of the northern kingdom. 1-6. Samaria's luxury and self-indulgence pave...
Isaiah 28:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

BOOK 3 PROPHECIES FROM THE ACCESSION OF HEZEKIAH TO THE DEATH OF SARGON 727-705 B.C. THE prophecies with which we have been engaged (Chapter s 2-10:4) fall either before or during the great Assy...
Isaiah 28:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Decay of an Intemperate People Isaiah 28:1-13 A new series of prophecies begins here and extends to Isaiah 32:20 . Samaria is described as a faded crown or garland on the nation's head bec...
Isaiah 28:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Here begins the third and last circle of the first division of the book. It consists of a series of prophecies concerning the chosen people and the world. In this chapter we have a graphic revelatio...
Isaiah 28:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Here is another solemn charge, and more pointed than the former. Errors are not only found in Ephraim, but in Judah; not only among the carnal, but the professor. Yea, God's ministers, both prophet a...
Isaiah 28:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept ,.... Signifying, that they must be dealt with as children were, when first instructed in the rudiments of a language, first had one rule giv...
Isaiah 28:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For precept [must be] upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little: Ver. 10. For precept must be upon precept. ] Children are of weak und...
Isaiah 28:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Whom shall he Namely, God, or his prophet, or minister; teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? Who is there among this people, that are capable and willing to be taught t...
Isaiah 28:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Degeneracy of Judah. B. C. 725. 9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he...
Isaiah 28:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Precept must be upon precept; they must be taught, like little children, slowly, and by leisure; the same things being oft repeated, because of their great dulness. Line upon line; one line of th...
Isaiah 28:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

His Opponent Mock Isaiah's Teaching ( Isaiah 28:9-13 ). Isaiah's opponents mock him because all that he does is proclaim a repetitive message. In their view that is to treat them like children. Bu...
Isaiah 28:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

EARLY RELIGIOUS TRAINING ( Sunday School Anniversary Sermon .) Isaiah 28:9-10 . Whom shall He teach knowledge? &c. Whether we regard these verses as the language of the drunkards of Ephraim,...
Isaiah 28:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 28:1 . The crown of pride. Sebaste, the ancient Samaria, is situated on a long mount of an oval figure, having first a fruitful valley, and then a circle of hills running round about it. M...
Isaiah 28:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

Whom shall He teach knowledge? The scoffing drunkards They scoff at the prophet, that intolerable moralist. They are full-grown and free; he need not teach them knowledge Isaiah 11:9 ), and ex...
Isaiah 28:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

SECTION VII . RENEWED DENUNCIATIONS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH ( CH . 28-31.) EXPOSITION Isaiah 28:1-23 A WARNING TO SAMARIA . The prophet has now east his eagle glance over t...
Isaiah 28:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. Chapter s 28 to 33 in the Book of Isaiah contain a cycle of prophecies and proclamations concerning the relation of Judah to Assyria in the time of King Hezekiah....
Isaiah 28:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 36:15 ; 2 Chronicles 36:16 ; 2 Timothy 3:7 ; Deuteronomy 6:1-6 ; Hebrews 5:12 ; Isaiah 28:13 ; Isaiah 5:4 ; Jeremiah 11:7 ; Jeremiah 25:3-7 ; Matthew 21:34-41 ; Nehemiah 9:29...
Isaiah 28:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

For — They must be taught like little children, because of their great dullness. Line — One line of the book after another, as children are taught to read.

Isaiah 28:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 28:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 28:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 28:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 28:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 28:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 28:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 28:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 28:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 28:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 28:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 28:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 28:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 28:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 28:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 28:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 28:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 28:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 28:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 28:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Isaiah 28:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 28:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 28:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 28:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 28:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 28:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes