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Isaiah 18:2  (King James Version)
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Isaiah 18:2

ambassadors—messengers sent to Jerusalem at the time that negotiations passed between Tirhakah and Hezekiah against the expected attack of Sennacherib (Isaiah 37:9).

by . . . sea—on the Nile (Isaiah 19:5): as what follows proves.

vessels of bulrushes—light canoes, formed of papyrus, daubed over with pitch: so the "ark" in which Moses was exposed (Exodus 2:3).

Go—Isaiah tells them to take back the tidings of what God is about to do (Isaiah 18:4) against the common enemy of both Judah and Ethiopia.

scattered and peeled—rather, "strong and energetic" [MAURER]. The Hebrew for "strong" is literally, "drawn out" (Margin; Psalms 36:10; Ecclesiastes 2:3). "Energetic," literally, "sharp" (Habakkuk 1:8, Margin; the verb means to "sharpen" a sword, Ezekiel 21:15-16); also "polished." As HERODOTUS (3:20, 114) characterizes the Ethiopians as "the tallest and fairest of men," G. V. SMITH translates, "tall and comely"; literally, "extended" (Isaiah 45:14, "men of stature") and polished (the Ethiopians had "smooth, glossy skins"). In English Version the reference is to the Jews, scattered outcasts, and loaded with indignity (literally, "having their hair torn off," HORSLEY).

terrible—the Ethiopians famed for warlike prowess [ROSENMULLER]. The Jews who, because of God's plague, made others to fear the like (Deuteronomy 28:37). Rather, "awfully remarkable" [HORSLEY]. God puts the "terror" of His people into the surrounding nations at the first (Exodus 23:27; Joshua 2:9); so it shall be again in the latter days (Zechariah 12:2-3).

from . . . beginning hitherto—so English Version rightly. But GESENIUS, "to the terrible nation (of upper Egypt) and further beyond" (to the Ethiopians, properly so called).

meted out—Hebrew, "of line." The measuring-line was used in destroying buildings (Isaiah 34:11; II Kings 21:13; Lamentations 2:8). Hence, actively, it means here "a people meting out,—an all-destroying people"; which suits the context better than "meted," passively [MAURER]. HORSLEY, understanding it of the Jews, translates it, "Expecting, expecting (in a continual attitude of expectation of Messiah) and trampled under foot"; a graphic picture of them. Most translate, of strength, strength (from a root, to brace the sinews), that is, a most powerful people.

trodden down—true of the Jews. But MAURER translates it actively, a people "treading under foot" all its enemies, that is, victorious (Isaiah 14:25), namely, the Ethiopians.

spoiled—"cut up." The Nile is formed by the junction of many streams in Abyssinia, the Atbara, the Astapus or Blue river (between which two rivers Meroe, the "Ethiopia" here meant, lies), and the Astaboras or White river; these streams wash down the soil along their banks in the "land" of Upper Egypt and deposit it on that of Lower Egypt. G. V. SMITH translates it, "Divide." HORSLEY takes it figuratively of the conquering armies which have often "spoiled" Judea.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 18:2:

Exodus 2:3
Job 9:26
Isaiah 17:14
Isaiah 18:1
Isaiah 18:1
Isaiah 18:7
Isaiah 19:5
Isaiah 19:25
Isaiah 23:18
Isaiah 34:11
Isaiah 45:14
Ezekiel 30:9
Ezekiel 30:9
Zephaniah 3:10

 

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