Isaiah 13:15-18; Isaiah 24:6; Isaiah 4:1; Psalms 137:9
I will make a man ... - I will so cut off and destroy the men of Babylon, that a single man to defend the city will be more rare and valuable tha...
I will make a (l) man more rare than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. (l) He notes the great slaughter that will be, seeing the...
Isaiah 13:1 to Isaiah 14:23 . The Utter Ruin of Babylon and Triumphal Ode over her Monarch's Death. Historical conditions are here presupposed e...
man. Hebrew. adam . App-14.
12. I will make a man more precious than pure gold. Here he describes in a particular manner how cruel and savage will be the war that is ca...
I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. I will make a man more precious than fine gold-wedge of Op...
Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, &c.— The prophet begins here to describe the calamity itself coming upon the Babylonians, but in figures, a...
I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. I will make a man more precious than fine gold - I...
1. Burden ] The corresponding verb means 'to lift up' ( a ) a load, ( b ) the voice (cp. Isaiah 3:7 ; Isaiah 42:2 ; Isaiah 42:11 ), used of Balaa...
Precious] RV 'rare'; the slaughter will be so great that few men will be left ( Isaiah 24:6 ). Golden wedge] RV 'pure gold'; the gold of Ophir wa...
I will make a man more precious. — Both the words for man ( e ̓ nosh and a̓dam ) express, as in Psalms 8:2 , the frailty of man’s nature. The wo...
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...
We now commence the second circle of the first division of our book, in which are contained Isaiah's prophecies concerning the nations and the world....
I know that I am singular in my views of this sweet portion, which comes in between what went before, and what follows after these verses: at least I...
MONEY FOR MEN ‘I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.’ Isaiah 13:12 What Isaiah really w...
I will make a man more precious than fine gold ,.... Which may denote either the scarcity of men in Babylon, through the slaughter made of them; so...
I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. Ver. 12. I will make a man more precious. ] Quod rarum...
I will punish the world The Babylonish empire, which is called the world, as the Roman empire afterward was, ( Luke 2:1 ,) because it was extended...
The Doom of Babylon. B. C. 739. 6 Ho...
The city and nation shall be so depopulated, that few men shall be left in it.
The Apocalyptic Destruction of Babylon ( Isaiah 13:6-16 ). The forces having been gathered by Yahweh on the remoteness of the bare mountain, they...
Isaiah 13:12 I. The text is a promise in the guise of a threat. It is a threat to one nation, but a promise to mankind. The text is speaking of th...
In the thirteen Chapter s which follow, the prophet, like a watchman, raises his voice, and denounces woes against all the surrounding nations, and f...
I will make a man more precious than fine gold Dearth of men a judgment from God When God caused His scythe to swing through the harvests of Ba...
EXPOSITION THE BURDEN OF BABYLON . The series of prophecies which commences with this chapter and continues to the close of Isaiah 23:1-...
General Introduction to the Prophecies of Wrath
I will make a man more precious than fine gold, humankind becoming rarer on earth than the choicest gold, even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir,...
More precious — The city and nation shall be so depopulated.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.