Isaiah 29:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

Woe. The second of the six woes.

Ariel. either. lion of GOD (El, App-4. IV) (2 Samuel 23:20); or the altar-hearth of GOD (Ezekiel 43:15; Ezekiel 43:16. and the Moabite Stone, line 12, App-54). Jerusalem is called Har-el on old Egyptian monuments.

the city. Put by Figure of speech Polyonymia for Jerusalem. "City" is in the construct state:. city of [the spot] where David camped.

dwelt. encamped.

year. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), for festival.

let them kill, &c.: or, let the feasts go round. Figure of speech Eironeia. App-6.

Isaiah 29:1

1 Woea to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.