Isaiah 2:7
in Isaiah 2Their land is full of silver and gold, with no limit to their treasures; their land is full of horses, with no limit to their chariots.
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ASV
And their land is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land also is full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots.
KJV
Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:
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This verse in Isaiah 2
Commentary
10 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Their land also is full of silver and gold - This “gold” was brought chiefly from Ophir.
This site's exposition
Their land is full of silver
on Isaiah 2:7-9
Verses 7 and 8 list the wealth in three items, treasure, horses and idols, each one a substitute for trust in the LORD. Horses and chariots without limit recall the law for kings at Deuteronomy 17:16. The idols indict themselves by their own description, "the work of their hands."
The record, by era
The Church Fathers3 voices
Vanity is the general term for vices, but vain in the particular sense means that which is found alien to God. Just as trusting in the Godhead is fruitful constancy, so deviating from him is the vanity that perishes.… So those who burned with the …
Someone might ask, what is wrong with having silver or horses, particularly when what the people believed was not rigorous? How should we respond? The prophet was not criticizing the use of these possessions but the misuse of them. When he said, "Woe to the mighty," he was not condemning them for having possessions but for hoarding so much more than they needed.
(Verse 7) Because they were once filled, and they had augurs, like the Philistines. For the Philistines always interpreted seventy foreign guests as their own, a common name for a particular people, which is today the nation of the Palestinians, as if they were Philistines, because the Hebrew language does not have the letter P; but instead uses the Greek letter Phi. Therefore, what is said in the Psalms, with the enumeration of other nations: "Foreigners have submitted to me" (Psalm 59:10), does not mean all foreign nations, but specifically the Palestinians.
The Medieval Church1 voice
Here he sets out the occasion of idolatry, which is avarice or its likeness: "or covetousness, which is a serving of idols" (Eph 5:3–5). First, therefore, he shows their avarice as to the multiplication of things which pertain to the necessities of life, when he …
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Their land also is full of silver and gold,.... Procured by pardons, indulgences, masses, praying souls out of purgatory, tithes, annates, Peter's pence, &c. neither is there any end of their treasures; laid up in the pope's coffers, in their churches, monasteries, and convents: their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots; for the cardinals, archbishops, bishops, &c. to ride on and in. Horses and chariots are mentioned among the wares and merchandise of Rome, in Rev 18:13.
3 more voices on this verse
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
(2.) Depending upon them, as if we could not be safe, and easy, and happy, without them, and could not but be so with them. God himself was their God, the sole object of their worship, and he himself instituted ordinances of worship for them; but they slighted both him and his institutions,
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
God designed there should be as wide as possible a distinction between Israel and the Egyptians. He would have His people wholly dependent on Him, rather than on the ordinary means of warfare (Ps 20:7). Also horses were connected with idolatry (2Ki 23:11); hence His objection: so the transition to "idols" (Isa 2:8) is natural.
Their land is also full of horses “And his land is filled with horses” - This was in direct contradiction to God’s command in the law: “But he (the king) shall not multiply horses to himself; nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses; neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold,” Deu 17:16, Deu 17:17. Uzziah seems to have followed the example of Solomon, see 1Ki 10:26-29, who first transgressed in these particulars; he recovered the port of Elath on the Red Sea, and with it that commerce which in Solomon’s days had “made silver and gold as plenteous at Jerusalem as stones,” 2Ch 1:15. He had an army of 307,500 men, in which, as we may infer from the testimony of Isaiah, the chariots and horse made a considerable part. “The law above mentioned was to be a standing trial of prince and people, whether they had trust and confidence in God their deliverer.” See Bp. Sherlock’s Discourses on Prophecy. Dissert. iv., where he has excellently explained the reason and effect of the law, and the influence which the observance or neglect of it had on the affairs of the Israelites.
The words behind it
13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַתִּמָּלֵ֤א | vatimale' | and it has been filled | H4390 → | 249 times |
| אַרְצוֹ֙ | ʾartzo | land its | H776 → | 2504 times |
| כֶּ֣סֶף | kesef | silver | H3701 → | 403 times |
| וְזָהָ֔ב | vezahav | and gold | H2091 → | 389 times |
| וְאֵ֥ין | veein | and there not | H369 → | 789 times |
| קֵ֖צֶה | ketzeh | [is] an end | H7097 → | 97 times |
| לְאֹצְרֹתָ֑יו | leotzerotav | to treasures its | H214 → | 79 times |
| וַתִּמָּלֵ֤א | vatimale' | and it has been filled | H4390 → | 249 times |
| אַרְצוֹ֙ | ʾartzo | land its | H776 → | 2504 times |
| סוּסִ֔ים | susim | horses | H5483 → | 140 times |
| וְאֵ֥ין | veein | and there not | H369 → | 789 times |
| קֵ֖צֶה | ketzeh | [is] an end | H7097 → | 97 times |
| לְמַרְכְּבֹתָֽיו׃ | lemarkevotav | to chariots its | H4818 → | 44 times |
וַתִּמָּלֵ֤אand it has been filled
vatimale'H4390 →249 times
אַרְצוֹ֙land its
ʾartzoH776 →2504 times
כֶּ֣סֶףsilver
kesefH3701 →403 times
וְזָהָ֔בand gold
vezahavH2091 →389 times
וְאֵ֥יןand there not
veeinH369 →789 times
קֵ֖צֶה[is] an end
ketzehH7097 →97 times
לְאֹצְרֹתָ֑יוto treasures its
leotzerotavH214 →79 times
וַתִּמָּלֵ֤אand it has been filled
vatimale'H4390 →249 times
אַרְצוֹ֙land its
ʾartzoH776 →2504 times
סוּסִ֔יםhorses
susimH5483 →140 times
וְאֵ֥יןand there not
veeinH369 →789 times
קֵ֖צֶה[is] an end
ketzehH7097 →97 times
לְמַרְכְּבֹתָֽיו׃to chariots its
lemarkevotavH4818 →44 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
Psalms 20:7Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
it leads to
- Isaiah 31:1
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Jeremiah 17:5
This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Psalms 33:16–17
No king is saved by his vast army; no warrior is delivered by his great strength.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Proverbs 21:31
A horse is prepared for the day of battle, but victory is of the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 32:8
With him is only the arm of flesh, but with us is the LORD our God to help us and to fight our battles.” So the people were strengthened by the words of Hezekiah…
- Isaiah 31:1
Through
Isaiah 31:1Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy…
it leads to
- Psalms 20:7
Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
- Deuteronomy 17:16
But the king must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire more horses, for the LORD has said, ‘You are never to go back that way…
- Jeremiah 2:13
“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
- Psalms 20:7
Where this verse is studied
About Isaiah
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Isaiah; Cassiodorus, EXPOSITION OF THE PSALMS 4:3; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah; John Chrysostom, COMMENTARY ON ISAIAH 2:7; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Isaiah.