Isaiah 28:29 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working. ”

• Isaiah 28:29 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  This also cometh ... - That is, these various devices for threshing his grain comes from the Lord no less than the skill with which he tills his land. (see Isaiah 28:26 ). And excellent in wo...

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• Isaiah 28:29 - 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...

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• Isaiah 28:29 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  This: i.e. this same design in His treatment of His people. His purpose is the same as that of the husbandman. Compare Amos 9:9 . excellent . lofty. working . wisdom. The sort of wisdom which...

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• Isaiah 28:29 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  29. This also hath proceeded from Jehovah of hosts. This passage is explained by some, as if The Prophet had said that the science of agriculture proceeded from the Lord; but I consider it t...

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• Isaiah 28:29 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working. Commentary on the Bible, by Adam Clarke [1831].

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• Isaiah 28:29 - 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...

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• Isaiah 28:29 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working. This also ... The skill wherewith the farmer duly adjusts his modes of threshing is giv...

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• Isaiah 28:29 - 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...

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• Isaiah 28:29 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts. — The force of the climax lies in the use of the highest of the Divine names instead of “God” (Elohim), as in Isaiah 28:26 . The wisdom of the husban...

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• Isaiah 28:29 - 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...

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• Isaiah 28:29 - 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...

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• Isaiah 28:29 - 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...

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• Isaiah 28:29 - 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,...

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• Isaiah 28:29 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  This also cometh from the Lord of hosts ,.... All this wisdom the husbandman has, in manuring his ground, in sowing it with proper seed, and in threshing it out in a manner suitable to it. Agricultu...

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• Isaiah 28:29 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, [which] is wonderful in counsel, [and] excellent in working. Ver. 29. This also cometh forth from the Lord. ] As doth likewise πανα δοσις αγαθη, και...

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• Isaiah 28:29 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  “Four methods of thrashing are here mentioned, by different instruments: the flail , the drag , the wain , and the treading of cattle. The staff , or flail , was used for the grain that was to...

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• Isaiah 28:29 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Husbandry a Divine Art. B. C. 725.       23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hea...

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• Isaiah 28:29 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  This also; this part of the husbandman's discretion, expressed Isaiah 28:27,28 , as well as that expressed Isaiah 28:24,25 . Which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working: these w...

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• Isaiah 28:29 - 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...

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• Isaiah 28:29 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  A FEAST FOR FAITH Isaiah 28:29 . This also cometh forth from the Lord of Hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working . The sentiment of the text is that the art, and science,...

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• Isaiah 28:29 - 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...

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• Isaiah 28:29 - 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...

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• Isaiah 28:29 - 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...

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• Isaiah 28:29 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Chastisement of the Lord of Hosts

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• Isaiah 28:29 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Daniel 4:2 ; Daniel 4:3 ; Isaiah 28:21 ; Isaiah 28:22 ; Isaiah 9:6 ; Jeremiah 32:19 ; Job 37:23 ; Job 5:9 ; Psalms 40:5 ; Psalms 92:5 ; Romans 11:33

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• Isaiah 28:29 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  This also — This part of the husbandman's discretion. These words contain the application of the similitude. The husbandman manages his affairs with common discretion; but God governs the world, an...

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