Isaiah 28:24

Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?

Related Commentaries of Isaiah 28:24

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Doth the plowman ... - The question here asked implies that he does “not” plow all the day. The interrogative form is often the most emphatic mod...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Husbandman Adapts his Methods to the Circumstances of Each Case. This parable may perhaps not have been spoken to the same audience as Isaiah...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

plow all day: i.e. continually. ever keep ploughing? See the note on Isaiah 28:28 . he open . he [for ever] open.
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

24. Doth the ploughman plough every day (242) to sow? This passage is commonly explained as if the Lord reproached his people for ingrat...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Give ye ear, &c.— We have here the fourth member of this section, in which this severe judgment of God denounced in the preceding verses, is de...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? - emphatic: he is...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

This chapter must be assigned ( Isaiah 28:1 ) to a date prior to the capture of Samaria by the Assyrians (722 b.c.) and fall of the northern kingdom....
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The implied answer is No; he doth not do these things continually.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Doth the plowman plow all day...? — Better, every day. Ploughing represents naturally, as in Jeremiah 4:3 , the preparatory discipline by which...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

BOOK 3 PROPHECIES FROM THE ACCESSION OF HEZEKIAH TO THE DEATH OF SARGON 727-705 B.C. THE prophecies with which we have been engaged (Chapter s 2...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Truth the only Refuge Isaiah 28:14-29 In the beginning of Hezekiah's reign the Jewish leaders had made an alliance with Assyria, on whom they r...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Here begins the third and last circle of the first division of the book. It consists of a series of prophecies concerning the chosen people and the w...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The chapter ends very graciously, in showing the Church, under the similitude of the husbandman, how the Lord takes care of his household. And as Jes...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow ?.... Or, "every day"; he ploughs in order to sow; by ploughing he prepares the ground for sowing, that is...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? Ver. 24. Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? ] a Or, Eve...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Give ye ear Observe what I say, and do you judge if it be not reasonable. “We have here the last member of this section, in which this severe judgm...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Husbandry a Divine Art. B. C. 725. 2...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow? the ploughman doth not spend all his time in ploughing the ground, in order to the sowing it, or, as it f...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Parable of the Farmer and his Crops ( Isaiah 28:23-29 ). The point behind this parable is that the wise farmer thinks carefully about what he...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE PARABLE OF THE HUSBANDMAN Isaiah 28:24-25 . Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? &c. [1117] [1117] In this parable the mystery of the D...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 28:1 . The crown of pride. Sebaste, the ancient Samaria, is situated on a long mount of an oval figure, having first a fruitful valley, and...
The Biblical Illustrator

The ploughman The parable of the ploughman and the thresher 1. The general drift of the parable is obvious. The husbandman does not forever ve...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

SECTION VII . RENEWED DENUNCIATIONS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH ( CH . 28-31.) EXPOSITION Isaiah 28:1-23 A WARNING TO SAMARIA...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Chastisement of the Lord of Hosts
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? Does he continue the same process in endless repetition? Doth he open and break the clods of his ground? by t...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hosea 10:11 ; Hosea 10:12 ; Jeremiah 4:3
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Doth — The plowman doth not spend all his time in plowing the ground; but he has several times for several works. And so God has his times and seas...

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Related Commentaries of Isaiah 28:24

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole 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

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Isaiah 28:24