Isaiah 31:1, The prophet shews the folly and danger of trusting to Egypt, and forsaking God; Isaiah 31:6, He exhorts to conversion; Isaiah 31:8, He shews the fall of Assyria.
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Isaiah 31
Isaiah 31 — Overview
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Isaiah 31 — OverviewIsaiah 31 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThis chapter is an abridgment of the foregoing chapter; the heads of it
are much the same. Here is, I. A woe to those who, when the Assyrian
army invaded them, trusted to the Egyptians, and not to God, for…Isaiah 31 — OverviewIsaiah 31 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThis chapter denounces woe to those that trusted in the Egyptians; assures the Jews of God's care and protection of them; calls them to repentance, and foretells the destruction of the Assyrian army. The sin of those…Isaiah 31:1-5Isaiah 31:1-5 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThis is the last of four chapters together that begin with woe; and
they are all woes to the sinners that were found among the professing
people of God, to the drunkards of Ephraim (ch. xxviii. 1), to Ariel…Isaiah 31:1Isaiah 31:1 · The Pulpit CommentaryWoe to them that go down to Egypt for help (comp. Isaiah 30:1, Isaiah 30:2; and see also the earlier prophecy, Isaiah 20:2-6). The examples of Samaria, Gaza, and Ashdod might well have taught the lesson of distrust of…Isaiah 31:1Isaiah 31:1 · The Pulpit CommentaryWrong sources of help.
"Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help." Egypt is used in Scripture as a symbol of all foreign worldly powers. It represented carnal force—"trusting in chariots, horses, and horsemen,…Isaiah 31:1Isaiah 31:1 · The Pulpit CommentaryNames for God.
Here the Lord, or Jehovah, is called the "Holy One of Israel." When the mysterious name "Jehovah" was given, another name, suited for more familiar use, was commended, even this, "the God of Abraham,…