Isaiah 3:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets,i and the earrings, ”

Isaiah 3:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The bonnets - The “tiara, head-dress, or turban.” The word comes from the verb “to adorn.” The “turban” is almost universally worn in the East. It was worn by the priests, Exodus 39:28 ; by the...
Isaiah 3:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 3:16 to Isaiah 4:1 . The Luxurious Ladies of Jerusalem and their Doom. As Amos attacked the women of Samaria for their luxury, made possible through the oppression of the poor ( Amos 4:1...
Isaiah 3:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

bonnets . headdress. Hebrew. pe'er. Not therefore peculiar to the "latter" portion of Isaiah ( Isaiah 61:10 ) as alleged. ornaments . anklets. headbands . girdles. Compare Isaiah 49:18 . ta...
Isaiah 3:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings, The tablets - The words בתי הנפש bottey hannephesh, which we translate tablets, and Bishop Lowth, per...
Isaiah 3:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

In that day the Lord will take away, &c.— In that day will the Lord take from them the ornaments, of the feet-rings, and the net-works, and the crescents; the pendents, and the bracelets, and...
Isaiah 3:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings, Bonnets - tiaras, or turbans. Ornaments of the legs - the short stepping chains from one...
Isaiah 3:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. Stay and the staff ] A prophecy of famine: cp. Isaiah 3:7 , as the clause following explains. But if the latter clause is a gloss then 'stay and staff' would refer to the classes upon which the...
Isaiah 3:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The bonnets ... — The English word is perhaps, too modern in its associations, and should be replaced by “diadems” ( Exodus 39:28 ; Isaiah 61:10 ). The ornaments of the legs. — These were chains...
Isaiah 3:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER II THE THREE JERUSALEMS 740-735 B.C. Isaiah 2:1-22 ; Isaiah 3:1-26 ; Isaiah 4:1-6 AFTER the general introduction, in chapter 1, to the prophecies of Isaiah, there comes another port...
Isaiah 3:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Vanity and Selfish Luxury Condemned Isaiah 3:13-26 ; Isaiah 4:1-6 This paragraph opens with the majestic figure of Jehovah Himself, who arises to judge the misrulers and plead the cause of the...
Isaiah 3:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The prophet now deals with judgment in greater detail, and shows how it will proceed against the rulers and against the women. The judgment in the case of the rulers is to be the destruction of true...
Isaiah 3:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

What a sad portrait is here drawn by the prophet, of the daughters of Zion. Alas! how unsuitable to Zion's daughters, who are supposed to be women professing godliness. Reader! is not the present day...
Isaiah 3:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The bonnets ,.... This word is used sometimes for the tire of the heads of men, Ezekiel 24:17 and even for the bonnets of the priests, Exodus 39:28 . The Targum renders the word "crowns"; the Jew...
Isaiah 3:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings, Ver. 20. See Trapp on " Isa 3:19 "
Isaiah 3:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Vanity of the Daughters of Zion. B. C. 758. 16 Moreover the L ORD saith, Because...
Isaiah 3:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The bonnets: these were ornaments to cover the head, common both to men, as Exodus 39:28 , and to women, as here. The tablets, Heb. the houses of the soul, or of life, or of breath ; whereby...
Isaiah 3:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Because Of Their Vanity, And The Behaviour That It Results In the Women Will Lose Their Treasured Possessions ( Isaiah 3:16-24 ). Isaiah 3:16 ‘Moreover Yahweh said, “Because the daughters of Z...
Isaiah 3:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

FEMALE PRIDE AND LUXURY Isaiah 3:16 , Isaiah 4:1 . Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, &c. We have here a terrible denunciation of female pride and luxury. C...
Isaiah 3:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 3:1 . Behold, the Lord doth take away from Jerusalem the whole stay of bread. This threatening is understood of the Chaldean invasion in the reign of Jechoniah, and after the death of king...
Isaiah 3:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

The daughters of Zion are haughty Wanton eyes (“twinkling with the eyes”):--Compare the Talmudic witticism, “God did not create the woman out of Adam’s ear, lest she might become an eavesdroppe...
Isaiah 3:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Isaiah 3:1-23 GOD 'S JUDGMENT UPON JERUSALEM . The general denunciations against Israel of the two preceding chapters are here turned especially against Jerusalem. God will...
Isaiah 3:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Vanity of the Women of Jerusalem
Isaiah 3:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 32:2 ; Ezekiel 16:12 ; Genesis 35:4 ; Hosea 2:13
Isaiah 3:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Tablets — He seems to mean boxes of perfumes.

Isaiah 3:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 3:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 3:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 3:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 3:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 3:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 3:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 3:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 3:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 3:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 3:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 3:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 3:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 3:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 3:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 3:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 3:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 3:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Isaiah 3:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 3:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 3:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 3:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 3:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 3:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes