Isaiah 2:1
in Isaiah 2This is the message that was revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz concerning Judah and Jerusalem:
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The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
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The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
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This verse in Isaiah 2
Commentary
9 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
The word - This indicates that this is the commencement of a new prophecy. It has no immediate connection with the preceding. It was delivered doubtless at a different time, and with reference to a different class of events. In the previous chapter the term “vision” is used Isa 2:1, but the meaning is substantially the same. The term “word” דבר dâbâr, denotes a “command, a promise, a doctrine, an oracle, a revelation, a message, a thing,” etc. It means here, that Isaiah foresaw certain “future events” or “things” that would happen in regard to Judah and Jerusalem.
This site's exposition
The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
The heading marks a new oracle, distinct from the vision named at 1:1, and chapters two through four run as one continuous poem under it. The same two poles frame the whole unit, the mountain of the Lord's house exalted above every mountain at the opening, and the day of the Lord humbling everything exalted at the close.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers2 voices
A commentator
John ChrysostomCommentary (church-history corpus) · Written in the 5th century.
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Judea and Jerusalem: Isaiah mentions Judea and Jerusalem, and in this is nothing unusual. His discourse was a prophecy, momentarily obscured by the names that are indicated. For it is the same for Jacob, predicting this, in the same way Isaiah will now state it (cf. Gen 49:10-11). Is it then surprising that here too the prophet places the names of Judea and of Jerusalem in his predictions regarding the Church? As he addressed himself to the senseless people who killed the prophets, burned their books, overturned their altars, so it is reasonable that the veil would have been imposed on them in their reading of the Old Testament, according to the utterance of the blessed Paul, "But their minds were hardened. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ" 2 Cor 3:14.
(Chapter 2, Verse 1) The word that Isaiah, the son of Amos, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. And in the previous Vision, which we have already explained, where the Septuagint translates it, it is written in Hebrew as 'Al Juda Ujerusalem' (); and in this second one, it is likewise contained in Hebrew.
The Medieval Church1 voice
Here he begins to rebuke their fault on the part of turning toward. And this is divided into three parts: in the first part, he denounces them for the fault which they were committing in the worship of idols; in the second, for the fault …
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Of the glory of the Christians, Jerusalem, the gospel-church in the latter days, in the accession of many to it (
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The word - Or, the matter or thing, as this Hebrew word commonly signifies; the prophecy or vision.
2 more voices on this verse
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw,.... That is, the vision which he saw, for a new one here begins, though agreeable to what goes before; or the prophecy of future things, which he had given to him in a visionary way.
Christianity shall then be the mountain of the Lord's house; where that is professed God will grant his presence, receive his people's homage, and grant instruction and blessing, as he did of old in the temple of Mount Zion. The gospel church, incorporated by Christ's charter, shall then be the rendezvous of all the spiritual seed of Abraham. Now it is here promised, I.
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הַדָּבָר֙ | hadavar | the word | H1697 → | 1440 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֣ר | ʾasher | which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| חָזָ֔ה | chazah | he saw | H2372 → | 55 times |
| יְשַֽׁעְיָ֖הוּ | yesha'yahu | Isaiah | H3470 → | 39 times |
| בֶּן־ | ben- | [the] son of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| אָמ֑וֹץ | ʾamotz | Amoz | H531 → | 13 times |
| עַל־ | ʾal- | on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| יְהוּדָ֖ה | yehudah | Judah | H3063 → | 819 times |
| וִירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ | virushalim | and Jerusalem | H3389 → | 643 times |
הַדָּבָר֙the word
hadavarH1697 →1440 times
אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
חָזָ֔הhe saw
chazahH2372 →55 times
יְשַֽׁעְיָ֖הוּIsaiah
yesha'yahuH3470 →39 times
בֶּן־[the] son of
ben-H1121 →4930 times
אָמ֑וֹץAmoz
ʾamotzH531 →13 times
עַל־on
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
יְהוּדָ֖הJudah
yehudahH3063 →819 times
וִירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃and Jerusalem
virushalimH3389 →643 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Micah 1:1This is the word of the LORD that came to Micah the Moreshite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah—what he saw regarding Samaria and Jerusalem:
it leads to
- Isaiah 1:1
This is the vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Jeremiah 26:18
“Micah the Moreshite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and told all the people of Judah that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Zion will be plowed like a…
- Hosea 1:1
This is the word of the LORD that came to Hosea son of Beeri in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and of Jeroboam son of Jehoash, king of…
- Isaiah 1:1
Through
Amos 1:1These are the words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders of Tekoa—what he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, in the days when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son…
it leads to
- Zechariah 14:5
You will flee by My mountain valley, for it will extend to Azal. You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my…
- 2 Chronicles 26:1–23
All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
- 1 Kings 19:19
So Elijah departed and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve teams of oxen, and he was with the twelfth team. Elijah passed by him and threw his cloak around him.
- Zechariah 14:5
Through
Isaiah 13:1This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:
it leads to
- Isaiah 47:1–15
“Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of Chaldea! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate.
- Jeremiah 50:1
This is the word that the LORD spoke through Jeremiah the prophet concerning Babylon and the land of the Chaldeans:
- Isaiah 47:1–15
Where this verse is studied
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About Isaiah
Who and where
3 names in this verse with a page on the site.
- PersonPatriarchsJudahJacob's fourth son who pledges himself for Benjamin; the tribe that carries the scepter to Shiloh (49:10) and the line to Christ (…
- PersonLate 8th century BCE / Divided KingdomIsaiahEighth-century BCE prophet of Judah whose oracles make up the book of Isaiah; a central voice for messianic prophecy.
- PlaceJerusalemJerusalemThe city David took from the Jebusites and made his capital, where Solomon built the temple, where Christ was crucified and rose,…
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Isaiah; Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Isaiah; Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah; John Chrysostom, Commentary (church-history corpus); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Isaiah.