2 Kings 16:9; Amos 1:5; Amos 9:7; Genesis 10:22; Isaiah 15:1; Isaiah 21:2; Jeremiah 49:35-39
And Elam - The southern part of Persia, perhaps used here to denote Persia in general (see the note at Isaiah 21:2 ). Elam, or Persia, was at th...
And Elam (i) bore the quiver with chariots of men [and] horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield. (i) He reminds them how God delivered them once from...
Jerusalem's Inexcusable Frivolity. The prophecy apparently belongs to the time of Sennacherib's invasion. Its menacing tone contrasts with that of...
Elam. Kir. The south and north limits of the Chaldsean forces. quiver. Hebrew. 'ashpah. Occurs only here in "former" portion, and only in Isa...
6. But Elam carrying the quiver. Here commentators think that the discourse proceeds without any interruption, and that he makes known to th...
And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield. Chariots of men "The Syriac" - It is not easy to say what...
And Elam, &c.— And Elam beareth the quiver; with chariots cometh the Syrian, and with horsemen; and Kir uncovereth the shield. Lowth. The sec...
And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield. Elam - the country stretching east from the Lower T...
Jerusalem Rebuked A severe rebuke of the conduct of the people of Jerusalem in a time of calamity. The crisis refered to cannot be certainly ident...
Elam.. Kir ] peoples who furnished auxiliaries to the Assyrian army. Uncovered ] took off its case in preparation for battle.
BOOK 4 JERUSALEM AND SENNACHERIB 701 B.C. INTO this fourth book we put all the rest of the prophecies of the Book of Isaiah, that have to do wit...
In the midst of the prophecies concerning the nations occurs one of protest against the indifference of Jerusalem to the prophet's messages. He first...
The Prophet, like a true servant of the Lord, though himself had the least hand in bringing down the judgments of God, yet he will be the first to la...
And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men [and] horsemen ,.... Or the Elamites, as the Targum and Septuagint, that is, the Persians, who were at...
And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men [and] horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield. Ver. 6. And Elam, ] i.e., The Persians (great arc...
And Elam bare the quiver This second member of the first part of this prophecy, which begins here, seems evidently to refer to the Assyrian invasio...
The Consternation of Jerusalem. B. C. 718. ...
Elam; the Persians, who now, and for a long time after. were subject to the Assyrian and Chaldean emperors, and were employed by them in their Wars...
God's People Must Choose Between Excessive And Unjustified Hilarity Resulting From False Confidence, or Mourning Over Sin and Trusting In Him ( Isai...
Isaiah 22:1 . The valley of vision. A valley near Jerusalem, so called because of a school of the prophets said to have been there. Isaiah 22:3...
EXPOSITION Isaiah 22:1-23 A PROPHECY AGAINST JERUSALEM . The prophet, present in Jerusalem, either actually, or at any rate in spirit,...
The Oracle of the Valley of Vision
And Elam, the warriors of the country east of the lower Tigris, later a province of Persia, bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, as a...
Elam — The Persians, who now, and for a long time after, were subject to the Assyrian and Chaldean emperors. Quiver — Being expert bowmen. Horsemen...
6 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncoveredb the shield.