Isaiah 31 - Introduction - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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I S A I A H.

CHAP. XXXI.

      This chapter is an abridgment of the foregoing chapter; the heads of it are much the same. Here is, I. A woe to those who, when the Assyrian army invaded them, trusted to the Egyptians, and not to God, for succour, Isaiah 31:1-3. II. Assurance given of the care God would take of Jerusalem in that time of danger and distress, Isaiah 31:4; Isaiah 31:5. III. A call to repentance and reformation, Isaiah 31:6; Isaiah 31:7. IV. A prediction of the fall of the Assyrian army, and the fright which the Assyrian king should thereby be put into, Isaiah 31:8; Isaiah 31:9.