Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Rather, "He (Jehovah) who hath said to them."
this . . . the rest—Reference may be primarily to "rest" from national warlike preparations, the Jews being at the time "weary" through various preceding calamities, as the Syro-Israelite invasion (Isaiah 7:8; compare Isaiah 30:15; Isaiah 22:8; Isaiah 39:2; Isaiah 36:1; II Kings 18:8). But spiritually, the "rest" meant is that to be found in obeying those very "precepts" of God (Isaiah 28:10) which they jeered at (compare Jeremiah 6:16; Matthew 11:29).
The prophet now turns to Judah; a gracious promise to the remnant ("residue"); a warning lest through like sins Judah should share the fate of Samaria.
crown—in antithesis to the "fading crown" of Ephraim (Isaiah 28:1, Isaiah 28:3).
the residue—primarily, Judah, in the prosperous reign of Hezekiah (II Kings 18:7), antitypically, the elect of God; as He here is called their "crown and diadem," so are they called His (Isaiah 62:3); a beautiful reciprocity.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 28:12:
Isaiah 14:3
Isaiah 28:13
Jeremiah 6:16
1 Corinthians 14:21
1 Corinthians 14:22
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