Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
in the pit—rather, "for the pit" [HORSLEY]. "In the dungeon" [MAURER]. Image from captives thrust together into a dungeon.
prison—that is, as in a prison. This sheds light on the disputed passage, I Peter 3:19, where also the prison is figurative: The "shutting up" of the Jews in Jerusalem under Nebuchadnezzar, and again under Titus, was to be followed by a visitation of mercy "after many days"—seventy years in the case of the former—the time is not yet elapsed in the case of the latter. HORSLEY takes "visited" in a bad sense, namely, in wrath, as in Isaiah 26:14; compare Isaiah 29:6; the punishment being the heavier in the fact of the delay. Probably a double visitation is intended, deliverance to the elect, wrath to hardened unbelievers; as Isaiah 24:23 plainly contemplates judgments on proud sinners, symbolized by the "sun" and "moon."
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 24:22:
Isaiah 23:18
Isaiah 28:22
Ezekiel 38:8
Galatians 3:22
1 Peter 3:18
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