Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, by R.A. Torrey, [ca. 1880], at sacred-texts.com
Isaiah Chapter 28
Overview
Isa 28:1, The prophet threatens Ephraim for their pride and drunkenness; Isa 28:5, The residue shall be advanced in the kingdom of Christ; Isa 28:7, He rebukes their error; Isa 28:9, their untowardness to learn; Isa 28:14, and their security; Isa 28:16, Christ the sure foundation is promised; Isa 28:17, Their security shall be tried; Isa 28:23, They are incited to the consideration of God's discreet providence.
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the crown: This chapter begins a new subject, chiefly relating to the devastations of Israel and Judah by the Assyrian kings. The ancient Samaria being beautifully situated on the top of a round hill, and surrounded immediately with a rich valley, and then a circle of other hills around it, suggested the idea of a chaplet, or wreath of flowers. Isa 28:3; Hos 5:5, Hos 6:10
drunkards: Isa 28:7, Isa 5:11, Isa 5:22; Pro 23:29; Hos 4:11, Hos 7:5; Amo 2:8, Amo 2:12, Amo 6:6
whose: Isa 28:4, Isa 7:8, Isa 7:9, Isa 8:4; Kg2 14:25-27, Kg2 15:29, Kg2 18:10-12; Ch2 28:6, Ch2 30:6, Ch2 30:7; Amo 6:1
overcome: Heb. broken
the Lord: Isa 9:9-12, Isa 27:1; Eze 30:10,Eze 30:11
as a tempest: Isa 28:15-19, Isa 8:7, Isa 8:8, Isa 25:4, Isa 29:6, Isa 30:30; Eze 13:11; Nah 1:8; Mat 7:25-27; Rev 18:8
The crown: Isa 28:1
shall: Isa 25:10, Isa 26:6; Kg2 9:33; Lam 1:15; Dan 8:13; Heb 10:29; Rev 11:2
under feet: Heb. with feet
shall be: Isa 28:1; Psa 73:19, Psa 73:20; Hos 6:4, Hos 9:10,Hos 9:11, Hos 9:16, Hos 13:1, Hos 13:15; Jam 1:10,Jam 1:11
the hasty: "No sooner," says Dr. Shaw, "doth the boccore (or early fig) draw near to perfection in the middle or latter end of June, than the kermez or summer fig, begins to be formed, though it rarely ripens before August; about which time the same tree frequently throws out a third crop, or winter fig, as we may call it. This is usually of a much longer shape and darker complexion than the kermez hanging and ripening upon the tree, even after the leaves are shed; and, provided the winter proves mild and temperate, is gathered as a delicious morsel in the spring." Mic 7:1; Nah 3:12; Rev 6:13
eateth: Heb. swalloweth
shall the: Isa 41:16, Isa 45:25, Isa 60:1-3, Isa 60:19, Isa 62:3; Jer 9:23, Jer 9:24; Zac 6:13-15; Luk 2:32; Co1 1:30,Co1 1:31; Co2 4:17; Pe1 5:4
for a diadem: Job 29:14; Psa 90:16, Psa 90:17
residue: Isa 10:20,Isa 10:21, Isa 11:16, Isa 37:31, Isa 37:32; Rom 11:5, Rom 11:6
for a spirit: Isa 11:2-4, Isa 32:15, Isa 32:16; Gen 41:38, Gen 41:39; Num 11:16, Num 11:17, Num 27:16-18; Kg1 3:28; Psa 72:1-4; Pro 20:8; Joh 3:34, Joh 5:30; Co1 12:8
and for strength: Deu 20:4; Jos 1:9; Psa 18:32-34, Psa 46:1, Psa 46:11
erred: Isa 19:14, Isa 56:10-12; Lev 10:9, Lev 10:10; Pro 20:1, Pro 31:4, Pro 31:5; Ecc 10:17; Eze 44:21; Hos 4:11; Mic 2:11; Mat 24:29; Luk 21:34; Eph 5:28
are swallowed: Psa 107:27 *marg.
err in: Isa 3:12, Isa 9:16; Jer 14:14, Jer 23:13, Jer 23:16; Lam 2:4; Eze 13:7; Hos 4:12
Pro 26:11; Jer 48:26; Hab 2:15, Hab 2:16
shall he teach: Isa 30:10-12; Psa 50:17; Pro 1:29; Jer 5:31, Jer 6:10; Joh 3:19, Joh 12:38, Joh 12:47, Joh 12:48
doctrine: Heb. the hearing, Isa 53:1 *marg.
weaned: Psa 131:2; Mat 11:25, Mat 21:15, Mat 21:16; Mar 10:15; Pe1 2:2
For precept: Isa 28:13, Isa 5:4; Deu 6:1-6; Ch2 36:15, Ch2 36:16; Neh 9:29, Neh 9:30; Jer 11:7, Jer 25:3-7; Mat 21:34-41; Phi 3:1; Ti2 3:7; Heb 5:12
must be: or, hath been
with: Deu 28:49; Jer 5:15; Co1 14:21
stammering lips: Heb. stammerings of lips
will he speak: or, he hath spoken.
This: Isa 30:15; Ch2 14:11, Ch2 16:8, Ch2 16:9; Jer 6:16; Mat 11:28, Mat 11:29
yet: Psa 81:11-13; Jer 44:16; Zac 7:11, Zac 7:14; Heb 12:25
precept upon precept: Isa 28:10; Jer 23:36-38; Hos 6:5, Hos 8:12
that: Isa 6:9, Isa 6:10, Isa 8:14, Isa 8:15; Psa 69:22; Mat 13:14, Mat 21:44; Rom 11:9; Co2 2:16; Pe1 2:7, Pe1 2:8; Pe2 3:16
ye: Isa 28:22, Isa 1:10, Isa 5:9, Isa 29:20; Pro 1:22, Pro 3:34, Pro 29:8; Hos 7:5; Act 13:41
We have: To be in covenant with a thing, says Bp. Lowth, is a proverbial expression to denote perfect security from mischief or evil of which it is the cause. Isa 5:18, Isa 5:19; Ecc 8:8; Job 5:23, Job 15:25-27; Jer 44:17; Eze 8:12; Hos 2:18; Zep 1:12
when: Isa 8:7, Isa 8:8; Dan 11:22
we have made: Isa 30:10; Jer 5:31, Jer 14:13, Jer 16:19, Jer 28:15-17; Eze 13:16, Eze 13:22; Amo 2:4; Jon 2:8; Th2 2:9-11
Behold: Isa 8:14; Gen 49:10,Gen 49:24; Psa 118:22; Zac 3:9; Mat 21:42; Mar 12:10; Luk 20:17, Luk 20:18; Act 4:11, Act 4:12; Rom 9:33, Rom 10:11; Co1 3:11; Eph 2:20; Pe1 2:6-8
he that: Isa 30:18; Psa 112:7, Psa 112:8; Hab 2:3, Hab 2:4; Jam 5:7, Jam 5:8
Judgment: Isa 10:22; Kg2 21:13; Psa 94:15; Amo 7:7-9; Rom 2:2, Rom 2:5, Rom 9:28; Rev 19:2
and the hail: Isa 28:2, Isa 28:15, Isa 25:4, Isa 32:2, Isa 32:18, Isa 32:19; Exo 9:18, Exo 9:19; Jos 10:11; Jer 7:4-8, Jer 7:14, Jer 7:20; Jer 23:19, Jer 30:23, Jer 30:24; Eze 13:10-16, Eze 38:22; Rev 8:7, Rev 11:19, Rev 16:21
and the waters: Isa 30:28; Job 22:16; Dan 11:22; Mat 7:27; Pe2 3:6, Pe2 3:7
your covenant: Isa 7:7, Isa 8:10; Jer 44:28; Eze 17:15; Zac 1:6
shall be disannulled: For kuppar Houbigant, Archbp. Secker, and Bp. Lowth, would read tuppar; but the former may well have the sense ascribed to it here, as it signifies in Chaldee and Syriac, abstersit, diluit, abolevit.
when: Isa 2:15, Isa 8:8; Jer 47:2; Dan 8:9-13, Dan 9:26, Dan 9:27, Dan 11:40; Rev 12:15, Rev 17:15
trodden down by it: Heb. a treading down to it, Isa 28:3; Mal 4:1-3
the time: Isa 10:5, Isa 10:6; Kg2 17:6, Kg2 18:13; Eze 21:19-23
and it: Isa 33:7, Isa 36:22, Isa 37:3; Sa1 3:11; Kg2 21:12; Jer 19:3; Dan 7:28, Dan 8:27; Hab 3:16; Luk 21:25, Luk 21:26
to understand the report: or, when he shall make you to understand doctrine
the bed: Isa 57:12, Isa 57:13, Isa 59:5, Isa 59:6, Isa 64:6, Isa 66:3-6; Jer 7:8-10; Rom 9:30-32; Co1 1:18-31
in mount Perazim: Sa2 5:20; Ch1 14:11
the valley: Jos 10:10,Jos 10:12; Sa2 5:25, Geba, Ch1 14:16
his strange: Isa 28:19; Deu 29:21-24; Jer 30:14; Lam 2:15, Lam 3:33; Eze 33:21; Luk 19:41-44
be ye: Isa 28:15; Ch2 30:10, Ch2 36:16; Jer 15:17, Jer 20:7; Mat 27:39, Mat 27:44; Act 13:40,Act 13:41; Act 17:32
lest: Ch2 33:11; Psa 107:16; Jer 39:7; Lam 1:14; Rev 22:18, Rev 22:19
a consumption: Isa 10:22, Isa 10:23, 24:1-23, Isa 32:12-14; Jer 25:11; Dan 9:26, Dan 9:27; Luk 21:24
Isa 1:2; Deu 32:1; Jer 22:29; Rev 2:7, Rev 2:11, Rev 2:14, Rev 2:29
break: Jer 4:3; Hos 10:11, Hos 10:12
in the principal: etc. or, the wheat in the principal place, and the barley in the appointed place. rye. or, spelt. Exo 9:31, Exo 9:32; Eze 4:9
place: Heb. border
For his God: etc. or, And he bindeth it in such sort as his God doth teach him, Exo 28:3, Exo 31:3-6, Exo 36:2; Job 35:11, Job 39:17; Psa 144:1; Dan 1:17; Jam 1:17
threshed: Isa 41:15; Kg2 13:7; Amo 1:3
the fitches: Isa 27:7, Isa 27:8; Jer 10:24, Jer 46:28
Bread: Isa 21:10; Amo 9:9; Mat 3:12, Mat 13:37-43; Luk 22:31, Luk 22:32; Joh 12:24; Co1 3:9; Co1 9:9, Co1 9:10
the wheel: Isa 28:27
cometh: Isa 28:21, Isa 28:22, Isa 9:6; Job 5:9, Job 37:23; Psa 40:5, Psa 92:5; Jer 32:19; Dan 4:2, Dan 4:3; Rom 11:33