Isaiah 24:12

The gates of the city are totally ruined, that the enemy may enter when and where they please.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the gate is smitten with destruction - The word rendered ‘destruction’ may denote ‘a crash’ (Gesenius). The idea is, that the gates of the ci...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 24. A World-wide Judgment Foretold. The apocalypse opens with the description of a judgment on the whole world. This judgment is predicted,...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

desolation . astonishment. Hebrew. shamen . Compare Isaiah 24:6 ; Isaiah 24:10 ; Isaiah 24:23 .
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

12. In the city is left desolation. By an elegant mode of expression he describes the desolation of Jerusalem or of many other cities. The o...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The city of confusion, &c.— We have here the sixth gradation, which requires no other comment than to be compared with the history, Genesis 3:...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. The gate is smitten with destruction - `with a great tumult (of the...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

2. All class distinctions are obliterated and confused.
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

BOOK 5 PROPHECIES NOT RELATING TO ISAIAH'S TIME In the first thirty-nine Chapter s of the Book of Isaiah-the half which refers to the prophet's o...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Desolation of a Guilty World Isaiah 24:1-13 This and the three following Chapter s form a single prophecy, describing the calamities about...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In these last Chapter s of the second circle, the prophet takes a still wider outlook. He sees how all the world is under the government of God. In t...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Here is but little variation from what went before. The representation is as if taken from the prophets vision; the roll is written within and withou...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

In the city is left desolation ,.... And nothing else, palaces, houses, and temples burnt, and inhabitants destroyed; none but devils, foul spirits,...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. Ver. 12. In the city is left desolation. ] There is nothing of any worth...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The city Jerusalem, and other cities, for the word may be here taken collectively; of confusion Hebrew, תהו, which signifies vanity, emptiness,...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

General Desolation Announced. B. C. 718. ...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Eventually The Curse will Result In Blessing For God's Own People ( Isaiah 24:4-15 ). The reason for the coming judgment is clearly stated. It wil...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 24:17 . Fear, and the pit. This is a figure of hunting, the wild beasts being chased into pits dug in narrow passages, and covered with gre...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

SECTION VI . GOD 'S GENERAL JUDGMENTS UPON THE EARTH (Isaiah 24-27.). EXPOSITION Isaiah 24:1-23 GOD 'S JUDGMENTS ON TH...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Judgment upon the Earth. The four ers, 24 to 27 inclusive, form one continuous poetical prophecy, remarkable both for form and for content. It...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

In the city is left desolation, only chaos and ruin to be found there, and the gate is smitten with destruction, battered down. Cf Matthew 24:6-8...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 32:14 ; Jeremiah 9:11 ; Lamentations 1:1 ; Lamentations 1:4 ; Lamentations 2:9 ; Lamentations 5:18 ; Micah 1:12 ; Micah 1:9 ; Matthew...

¹² In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

Related Commentaries of Isaiah 24:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 24:12