TSK - ISAIAH 18

  1  God, in care of his people, will destroy the Ethiopians.
 7  An accession thereby shall be made to the church.


VERSE 1
- A.M. cir. 3290.  B.C. cir. 714.  Woe.
  Bp. Lowth renders, after Bochart, "Ho! to the land of the
  winged cymbal;" which he thinks is a periphrasis for the
  Egyptian sistrum; and consequently, that Egypt, "which
  borders on the rivers of Cush," is the country to which the
  prophecy is addressed.  If we translate "shadowing with
  wings," it may allude to the multitude of its vessels, whose
  sails may be represented under the notion of wings.

- the land.
   * Isa 20:3-6; 30:2,3; 31:1
- shadowing.
   * Ru 2:12 Ps 17:8; 36:7; 57:1; 61:4; 63:7; 91:4 Mt 23:37
- which.
   * 2Ki 19:9 Eze 30:4,5 Zep 2:12; 3:10


VERSE 2 
 - sendeth.
   * Isa 30:2-4 Eze 30:9
- vessels.
  It is well known that the Egyptians commonly used on the Nile
  a light sort of ships or boats made of the papyrus.  See note
  on Ex 2:3.

- to a nation.
   * :7
- scattered and peeled.  or, outspread and polished.
  Or, as Bp. Lowth renders, "stretched out in length and
  smoothed."  Egypt, which is situated between 24ø and 32ø N.
  lat. and 30ø and 33ø E. long., being bounded on the south by
  Ethiopia, on the north by the Mediterranean, on the east by
  the mountains of Arabia, and on the west by those of Lybia,
  is one long vale, 750 miles in length, (through the middle of
  which runs the Nile,) in breadth from one to two or three
  day's journey, and even at the widest part of the Delta, from
  Pelusium to Alexandria, not above 250 miles broad.

- to a people.
   * Ge 10:8,9 2Ch 12:2-4; 14:9; 16:8
- Heb. Meted out and trodden down.  or, that meteth out and
  treadeth down.  Heb. of line, line, and treading under foot.
  This is an allusion to the frequent necessity of having
  recourse to mensuration in Egypt, in order to determine their
  boundaries, after the inundation of the Nile had smoothed
  their land and effaced their landmarks; and to their method
  of throwing seed upon the mud, when the waters had subsided,
  and treading it in by turning their cattle into the fields.

- have spoiled.  or, despise.
   * Isa 19:5-7


VERSE 3 
 - All ye.
   * Isa 1:2 Ps 49:1,2; 50:1 Jer 22:29 Mic 6:2
- see ye.
   * Isa 5:26; 7:18; 13:2,4; 26:11 Am 3:6-8 Mic 6:9 Zec 9:14 Mt 13:9,16


VERSE 4 
 - I will.
   * Isa 26:21 Ps 132:13,14 Ho 5:15
- consider in my dwelling place.  or, regard my set dwelling.
   * :7; 12:6; 14:32; 31:9; 46:13 Joe 3:17
- like a clear.
   * 2Sa 23:4 Ps 72:6
- upon herbs.  or, after rain.


VERSE 5 
 - See on ch.
   * Isa 17:11 So 2:13,15 Eze 17:6-10

VERSE 6
    * Isa 14:19; 34:1-7 Jer 7:33; 15:3 Eze 32:4-6; 39:17-20 Re 19:17,18


VERSE 7 
 - shall the.
   * Isa 16:1; 23:17,18; 45:14 2Ch 32:23 Ps 68:29-31; 72:9-15 Zep 3:10
   * Mal 1:11 Mt 2:11 Ac 8:27,28
- scattered and peeled.  or, outspread and polished.
   * :2
- to the.
   * :4; 60:6-9 Mic 4:13 Zec 14:16,17



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