Isaiah 28:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. ”

Isaiah 28:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

To whom he said - To whom God had said; that is, to the Jews. He had taught them the way of rest through the prophets, but they had refused to learn. This is the rest - That is, this is the t...
Isaiah 28:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

To whom (l) he said, (m) This [is] the rest [with which] ye may (n) cause the weary to rest; and this [is] the refreshing: yet they would not hear. (l) That is, the prophet, whom God would send. (m...
Isaiah 28:12 - 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 28:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

To whom He said: or, He (Jehovah) Who said to them: i.e. by His prophets ( Isaiah 7:4 ; Isaiah 8:6 ; Isaiah 30:15 ).
Isaiah 28:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

12. For he said to them. Some explain it by circumlocution in this manner: “If one should say to them, This is the rest, they refuse to hear.” But this is a feeble exposition, and does not c...
Isaiah 28:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. This is the rest "This is the true rest" - The sense of this ver...
Isaiah 28:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For with stammering lips, &c.— Instead of refreshing, in Isaiah 28:12 we may read, happy place; and the 13th may be rendered, But the word of the Lord shall be unto them,—that they may g...
Isaiah 28:12 - 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 28:12 - 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 28:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

To whom he said, This is the rest... — The prophet vindicates himself against the charge of being a repeater of wearisome messages of rebuke. Rather had he pointed the way to a time of repentance,...
Isaiah 28:12 - 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 28:12 - 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 28:12 - 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 28:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

This is a blessed verse, which comes in like some precious cordial to a dying man, who had been fainting before under afflictions all around. But, Reader! who is the person here spoken of, to whom he...
Isaiah 28:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

To whom he said ,.... Either the Lord himself, or the prophet Isaiah; or rather the Lord by him, and other prophets; so the Targum, "to whom the prophets said;'' that is, the true prophets of the...
Isaiah 28:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

To whom he said, This [is] the rest [wherewith] ye may cause the weary to rest; and this [is] the refreshing: yet they would not hear. Ver. 12. To whom he said, This is the rest, ] i.e., The re...
Isaiah 28:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For Or, rather, therefore , as the particle כי is often used. For the prophet here evidently intends to express the punishment of their dulness. With stammering lips, and another tongue By peopl...
Isaiah 28:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Degeneracy of Judah. B. C. 725. 9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he...
Isaiah 28:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

To whom he said, to which people the Lord, by his minister, said, This, this doctrine or precept, as it is expressed, Isaiah 28:9,10 , or the word of the Lord, as it follows, Isaiah 28:13 ,...
Isaiah 28:12 - 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 28:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

REJECTERS OF THE GOSPEL ADMONISHED Isaiah 28:12 . To whom He said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear . Isaiah was one...
Isaiah 28:12 - 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 28:12 - 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 28:12 - 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 28:12 - 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 28:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 14:11 ; 2 Chronicles 16:8 ; 2 Chronicles 16:9 ; Hebrews 12:25 ; Isaiah 30:15 ; Jeremiah 44:16 ; Jeremiah 6:16 ; Matthew 11:28 ; Matthew 11:29 ; Psalms 81:11-13 ; Zechariah 7:1...
Isaiah 28:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

This — This doctrine. The rest — The only way, in which you will find rest.

Isaiah 28:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 28:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 28:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 28:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 28:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 28:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 28:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 28:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 28:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 28:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 28:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 28:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 28:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 28:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 28:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 28:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 28:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 28:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 28:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 28:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 28:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Isaiah 28:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 28:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 28:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 28:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 28:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 28:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes