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Isaiah 24:22

in Isaiah 24

They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit. They will be confined to a dungeon and punished after many days.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison; and after many days shall they be visited.

KJV

And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.

This verse in Isaiah 24

Commentary

9 notes on this verse

A commentator

Thomas Aquinas

Commentary on Isaiah · Written before 1274.

And they shall be gathered together, at the same time in hell: which was prepared for the devil and his angels (Matt 25:41); as in the gathering of one bundle: bind it into bundles to burn (Matt 13:30), that they may be alike in punishment …

This site's exposition

the Lord shall punish the host of the high ones

on Isaiah 24:21-23

The judgment falls on two ranks at once, the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth, a heavenly tier and an earthly tier punished together in one sentence. Henry and Jamieson, Fausset and Brown read the host of the high ones as the proud princes set over the nations, language they connect to the angelic princes named in Daniel 10 without pressing further, while modern readings of the unseen world, Michael Heiser among them, take the phrase as the rebellious spiritual powers standing behind those same kings, cite-only as his own contribution to a debated text. Both readings hold that the prisoners gathered in the pit and shut up in the prison are visited after many days, a delayed reckoning rather than an immediate one. The apocalyptic sweep lands on a throne at last, the moon confounded and the sun ashamed when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah · Written before 420.

proposed

(Verse 21 onwards) And it will happen in that day, the Lord will visit upon the host of heaven on high, and upon the kings of the earth who are on the earth. And they will be gathered together into one assembly, into a pit, and will be shut up there in prison, and after many days they will be visited. And the moon will be ashamed, and the sun will be confounded, when the Lord of hosts shall reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and shall show forth his glory before his ancients.

The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Shut up - As malefactors, which are taken in several places, are usually brought to one common prison. After - After the apostate Jews shall have been shut up in unbelief, and in great tribulations for many ages together, they shall be convinced of their sin in crucifying the Messiah, and brought home to God and Christ by true repentance.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Let not the free man glory in his freedom, any more than the strong man in his strength, for he knows not what restraints he is reserved for. But after many days they shall be visited, either, [1.] They shall be visited in wrath; it is the same word, in another form, that is used (

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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

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2 more voices on this verse

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

And they shall be gathered together - That is, those who occupy posts of honor and influence in the ecclesiastical and civil polity of the land. “As prisoners.” Margin, as in the Hebrew, ‘With the gathering of prisoners.’ The reference is to the custom of collecting captives taken in war, and chaining them together by the hands and feet, and thrusting them in large companies into a prison. In the pit - Margin, ‘Dungeon.’ The sense is, that he rulers of the land should be made captive, and treated as prisoners of war.

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

HORSLEY takes "visited" in a bad sense, namely, in wrath, as in Isa 26:14; compare Isa 29:6; the punishment being the heavier in the fact of the delay. Probably a double visitation is intended, deliverance to the elect, wrath to hardened unbelievers; as Isa 24:23 plainly contemplates judgments on proud sinners, symbolized by the "sun" and "moon."

The words behind it

11 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וְאֻסְּפ֨וּand they will be gathered

    veusefuH622200 times

  • אֲסֵפָ֤הa gathering

    ʾasefahH626

  • אַסִּיר֙prisoner[s]

    ʾasirH6165 times

  • עַל־to

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • בּ֔וֹרa pit

    borH95366 times

  • וְסֻגְּר֖וּand they will be shut up

    vesugeruH546291 times

  • עַל־at

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • מַסְגֵּ֑רa prison

    masgerH4525

  • וּמֵרֹ֥בand from an abundance of

    umeroH7230149 times

  • יָמִ֖יםdays

    yamimH31172304 times

  • יִפָּקֵֽדוּ׃they will be visited

    yipakeduH6485303 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each 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

    Zechariah 9:11

    As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 51:14

      The captive will soon be freed; he will not die in the dungeon, and his bread will not be lacking.

    • Exodus 24:8

      So Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.”

    • Psalms 102:19–21

      For He looked down from the heights of His sanctuary; the LORD gazed out from heaven to earth

    • Isaiah 42:7

      to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.

    • Matthew 26:28

      This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

  • Through

    Isaiah 42:22

    But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, “Send…

    it leads to

    • Psalms 102:20

      to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death,

    • Jeremiah 50:17

      Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.”

    • Isaiah 51:23

      I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to…

About Isaiah

The Prophet Isaiah, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Prophet Isaiah, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah; 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.