Isaiahchapter 20
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Chapter summary
Sargon of Assyria's capture of Ashdod through his commander Tartan dates this brief sign-act oracle.
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Chapter summary
Sargon of Assyria's capture of Ashdod through his commander Tartan dates this brief sign-act oracle.
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Sargon of Assyria's capture of Ashdod through his commander Tartan dates this brief sign-act oracle. Jehovah commands Isaiah the son of Amoz to strip off sackcloth and sandals, and the prophet walks naked and barefoot for three years as "a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia." The enacted meaning follows: the king of Assyria will lead away Egypt's captives and Ethiopia's exiles the same way: young and old, naked, barefoot, buttocks uncovered, to Egypt's shame. Those who trusted these powers, "Ethiopia their expectation" and "Egypt their glory," are left dismayed, and the inhabitants of the coast-land close the chapter with the stranded question: if this is what became of the refuge we fled to, "how shall we escape?"
Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.
Context
Prophecy · Isaiah — Isaiah overview
- A. 1–2 Isaiah Walks Naked and Barefoot
- B. 3–6 A Three-Year Sign Against Egypt and Ethiopia
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Jeremiah 132 verses
- Jeremiah 13:22And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.
- Jeremiah 13:26Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.
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Isaiah 302 verses
- Isaiah 30:3Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
- Isaiah 30:5They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
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2 Kings 181 verse
- 2 Kings 18:17And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab–shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.
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Jeremiah 251 verse
- Jeremiah 25:29For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the Lord of hosts.
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4 more chapters this one speaks with
1 Samuel 51 verse
- 1 Samuel 5:1And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Eben–ezer unto Ashdod.
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1 Samuel 191 verse
- 1 Samuel 19:24And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?
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Matthew 31 verse
- Matthew 3:4And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
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Micah 11 verse
- Micah 1:8Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
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Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and OpenBible.info.