Isaiah 17:1 KJV — MannaFest

Isaiah 17:1

The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

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ASV

The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

WEB

This is the burden against Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is no longer a city; it has become a heap of ruins.

YLT

The burden of Damascus. Lo, Damascus is taken away from being a city, And it hath been a heap--a ruin.

DBT

The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from [being] a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

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Amos 1:3–5
Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
Zechariah 9:1
The burden of the word of the Lord in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the Lord.
Isaiah 25:2
For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
Isaiah 7:8
For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
Deuteronomy 13:16
And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the Lord thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.

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Here he prophesies against the kingdom of Syria, and mentions the chief city in which the seat of the kingdom lay. It was proper that this calamity, like others which came before it, should be described, that the righteous might confidently believe that God would one day assist them, and would not always permit them to be oppressed by the wicked without end.

John Calvin· Commentaries, 1554reformed

Such desolating work as this does sin make with cities. The country towns are abandoned by their inhabitants, frightened or forced away by the invaders: The cities of Aroer (a province of Syria so called) are forsaken (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Damascus--put before Israel (Ephraim, Isa 17:3), which is chiefly referred to in what follows, because it was the prevailing power in the league; with it Ephraim either stood or fell (Isa 7:1-25).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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ISA 17:1ISA 25:2 ISA 25:12
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ISA 17:1MIC 1:6 EZE 13:14
ISA 17:1JER 49:2 JER 4:19
ISA 17:1JER 49:2 EZE 21:20
ISA 17:1MIC 1:6 MIC 3:12
ISA 17:1ISA 25:2 ISA 13:22
ISA 17:1JER 49:2 DEU 3:11
ISA 17:1ZEC 9:1 JER 49:23-27

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