Isaiah 34:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the unicornsa shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. ”

Isaiah 34:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the unicorns - Margin, ‘Rhinoceros’ ( ראמים r e 'ēmı̂ym from ראם r e 'êm ). This was evidently an animal well known in Palestine, since it is frequently mentioned in the Old T...
Isaiah 34:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And the (h) unicorns shall come down with them, and the bulls with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. (h) The mighty and rich will be as well...
Isaiah 34:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

In preparation for the slaughter of earth Yahweh's sword has drunk its fill of wrath in heaven. Now, charged and sharpened with its fury, it descends to execute the ban upon Edom ( mg.). His sword r...
Isaiah 34:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

unicorns: or, rhinocerots. Hebrew. re'emin. soaked . drunken. Figure of speech Hyperbole.
Isaiah 34:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

7. And the unicorns shall come down with them. This verse is closely connected with the former, for he adds nothing new, but proceeds with the same figure, amplifying what he had said about...
Isaiah 34:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. The unicorns shall come down - ראמים reem...
Isaiah 34:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For my sword shall be bathed in heaven— The meaning of this period is, that on a certain day of judgment, which is elsewhere called the great day of the Lord's vengeance, a mighty slaughter shall...
Isaiah 34:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. The unicorns - Hebrew, reem; conv...
Isaiah 34:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

4. Cp. 1 Isaiah 3:10 .
Isaiah 34:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And the unicorns shall come down with them... — Better, the aurochs, or wild bulls ... The Hebrew, rem, which meets us in Deuteronomy 33:17 ; Psalms 22:21 , has been identified with the b...
Isaiah 34:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Reaping the Whirlwind Isaiah 34:1-17 This chapter is one prolonged description of the judgments which were to befall the nations at the hand of Assyria and Babylon. The imagery employed is borr...
Isaiah 34:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This and the following chapter constitute the second part of the final circle of the prophecies of judgment. Terrible indeed is the description of world-wide desolation which this chapter presents. T...
Isaiah 34:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I pass over the several particulars in these verses, which mean one and the same thing, of God's judgments, differently set forth, to call the Reader's attention to that striking one folded up in the...
Isaiah 34:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the unicorns shall come down with them ,.... With the lambs, goats, and rams; that is, either the rhinoceros, as some, there being no such creature as the unicorn; or the buffaloes, as m others;...
Isaiah 34:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. Ver. 7. And the unicorns shall come do...
Isaiah 34:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And the unicorns shall come down The word ראמים, reemim , here rendered unicorns , is the same with that used Numbers 23:22 , where see the note. Bishop Lowth renders it here, wild goats; and...
Isaiah 34:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Threatenings against God's Enemies. B. C. 720. 1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hea...
Isaiah 34:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The unicorns, Heb. the reemim . But what kind of beast this is, whether that beast which is commonly called an unicorn, which seems to be but a fiction in the judgment of the learned, or a rhinoce...
Isaiah 34:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And the wild oxen will come down with them, And the bullocks with the mighty ones, And their land will be drunk with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.' Not only Edom but their wild ne...
Isaiah 34:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 34:1 . Come near ye nations to hear for the indignation of the Lord is upon all the kingdoms of western Asia. Those nations are named in Jeremiah 25 . They comprise Jerusalem, Egypt, Tyre,...
Isaiah 34:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

Come near, ye nations, to hear. --The subject is, as in chap. 13., the Lord’s judgment upon all the nations; and as chap 13. singled out Babylon for special doom, so chap. 34, singles out Edom....
Isaiah 34:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

SECTION 11. THE DIVINE JUDGMENT ON THE WORLD , AND THE GLORY OF THE CHURCH CONSEQUENT UPON IT ( Isaiah 34:1-23 ; Isaiah 35:1-23 .). EXPOSITION Isaiah 34:1-23 a...
Isaiah 34:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Idumea as a Type of Hostility Against God
Isaiah 34:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 33:17 ; Isaiah 34:3 ; Jeremiah 46:21 ; Jeremiah 50:11 ; Jeremiah 50:27 ; Job 39:10 ; Job 39:9 ; Numbers 23:22 ; Numbers 24:8 ; Psalms 68:30 ; Psalms 92:10
Isaiah 34:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The unicorns — It is confessed, this was a beast of great strength and fierceness; and it is used in this place to signify their princes and potentates, who shall be humbled and cast down. Them — W...

Isaiah 34:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 34:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 34:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 34:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 34:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 34:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 34:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 34:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 34:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 34:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 34:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 34:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 34:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 34:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 34:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 34:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 34:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 34:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 34:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 34:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 34:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 34:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 34:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 34:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 34:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes