children. youths, or boys.
babes. with caprice. Not the same word
And I will give children - Not children in respect to age so much as in regard to talent for governing. I will commit the land to the government...
And I will give (d) children [to be] their princes, and babes shall rule over them. (d) Not only in age: but in manners, knowledge and strength.
Judah to be Punished with Anarchy. The date is uncertain. That it was early in the reign of Ahaz is a dubious inference from Isaiah 3:12 . The pil...
4. And I will appoint children to be their princes (56) That the vengeance of God may be more manifest, he now describes how sad and wretch...
And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. I will give children to be their princes "I will make boys their prin...
And babes shall rule over them— And they shall wantonly lord it over them. Schultens. See Ecclesiastes 10:16-17 . This was the state of things i...
And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. And I will give children - in ability for governing: antithesis...
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...
Children.. babes ] in character rather than in years. 6, 7. The meaning is, the state of society shall be such that a man who apparently has the...
I will give children to be their princes. — Better, youths. The words may point obliquely to Ahaz, who had ascended the throne at the age of twen...
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...
an Exhortation to Humility and Reverence Isaiah 2:12-22 ; Isaiah 3:1-12 If men will not repent, they must suffer. If they will not voluntarily...
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 ca...
The prophet plainly shows by these verses, that the sin is universal. All ranks and all orders of the people are involved in the same sin, and conseq...
And I will give children [to be] their princes ,.... Either in age, or in understanding, who are really so, or act like such; and in either sense, w...
And I will give children [to be] their princes, and babes shall rule over them. Ver. 4. And I will give children to be their princes. ] Si non...
And I will give children to be their princes Either, 1st, Children in age, whose minority corrupt ministers of state commonly abuse, to the produci...
Judgments Denounced. B. C. 758. 1 For,...
Children; either, 1. In age, whose minority corrupt ministers of state commonly abuse to great mischiefs; or, 2. In understanding, experience,...
All that Jerusalem/Judah Depend On Is To Be Taken Away So That Society Will Disintegrate Towards Even More Evil ( Isaiah 3:1-9 a). Having covered...
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 th...
I will give children to be their princes Puerile government Probably an abstract term used for a concrete--puerilities or childishnesses for ch...
EXPOSITION Isaiah 3:1-23 GOD 'S JUDGMENT UPON JERUSALEM . The general denunciations against Israel of the two preceding chapters are...
God's Threat of Punishment
And I will give children to be their princes, weak and inexperienced young men, and babes shall rule over them, incompetent and wanton youngsters,...
1 Kings 3:7-9 ; 2 Chronicles 33:1 ; 2 Chronicles 34:1 ; 2 Chronicles 36:11 ; 2 Chronicles 36:2 ; 2 Chronicles 36:5 ; 2 Chronicles 36:9 ; Eccl...
4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.