Isaiah 28:24 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? ”

Isaiah 28:24 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Doth the plowman ... - The question here asked implies that he does “not” plow all the day. The interrogative form is often the most emphatic mode of affirmation. All day - The sense is, does...
Isaiah 28:24 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Husbandman Adapts his Methods to the Circumstances of Each Case. This parable may perhaps not have been spoken to the same audience as Isaiah 28:7-22 , but there is no valid reason for denying...
Isaiah 28:24 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

plow all day: i.e. continually. ever keep ploughing? See the note on Isaiah 28:28 . he open . he [for ever] open.
Isaiah 28:24 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

24. Doth the ploughman plough every day (242) to sow? This passage is commonly explained as if the Lord reproached his people for ingratitude, because he had cultivated the field as a hu...
Isaiah 28:24 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
Isaiah 28:24 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Give ye ear, &c.— We have here the fourth member of this section, in which this severe judgment of God denounced in the preceding verses, is defended by a parable taken from agriculture, wherei...
Isaiah 28:24 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? - emphatic: he is not always plowing; he also 'sows,' and that, too...
Isaiah 28:24 - 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 28:24 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Doth the plowman plow all day...? — Better, every day. Ploughing represents naturally, as in Jeremiah 4:3 , the preparatory discipline by which the spiritual soil is rendered fit for the sower’s...
Isaiah 28:24 - 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 28:24 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Truth the only Refuge Isaiah 28:14-29 In the beginning of Hezekiah's reign the Jewish leaders had made an alliance with Assyria, on whom they relied to protect them against any and all foes. Bu...
Isaiah 28:24 - 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 28:24 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The chapter ends very graciously, in showing the Church, under the similitude of the husbandman, how the Lord takes care of his household. And as Jesus hath sweetly set forth the same blessed truths,...
Isaiah 28:24 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow ?.... Or, "every day"; he ploughs in order to sow; by ploughing he prepares the ground for sowing, that is his end in ploughing; and he may plough a whole da...
Isaiah 28:24 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? Ver. 24. Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? ] a Or, Every day. Doth he not find him somewhat else to do b...
Isaiah 28:24 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Give ye ear Observe what I say, and do you judge if it be not reasonable. “We have here the last member of this section, in which this severe judgment of God, denounced in the preceding verses, is...
Isaiah 28:24 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Husbandry a Divine Art. B. C. 725. 23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hea...
Isaiah 28:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow? the ploughman doth not spend all his time in ploughing the ground, in order to the sowing it, or, as it follows, in opening it, and breaking its clods; but...
Isaiah 28:24 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Parable of the Farmer and his Crops ( Isaiah 28:23-29 ). The point behind this parable is that the wise farmer thinks carefully about what he is doing and does not get bogged down in one activ...
Isaiah 28:24 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE PARABLE OF THE HUSBANDMAN Isaiah 28:24-25 . Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? &c. [1117] [1117] In this parable the mystery of the Divine Providence is laid open, its secret disclose...
Isaiah 28:24 - 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 28:24 - The Biblical Illustrator

The ploughman The parable of the ploughman and the thresher 1. The general drift of the parable is obvious. The husbandman does not forever vex and wound the tender bosom of the earth with the...
Isaiah 28:24 - 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 28:24 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Chastisement of the Lord of Hosts
Isaiah 28:24 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hosea 10:11 ; Hosea 10:12 ; Jeremiah 4:3
Isaiah 28:24 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Doth — The plowman doth not spend all his time in plowing the ground; but he has several times for several works. And so God has his times and seasons for several works, and his providence is vario...

Isaiah 28:24 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 28:24 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 28:24 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 28:24 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 28:24 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 28:24 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 28:24 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 28:24 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 28:24 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 28:24 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 28:24 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 28:24 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 28:24 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 28:24 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 28:24 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 28:24 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 28:24 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 28:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 28:24 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 28:24 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Isaiah 28:24 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 28:24 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 28:24 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 28:24 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 28:24 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 28:24 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes