Isaiah 13:2 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 13:2

Raise a banner on a barren hilltop; call aloud to them. Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.

BSB

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ASV

Set ye up an ensign upon the bare mountain, lift up the voice unto them, wave the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

KJV

Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

SIX BOOKS ON JEREMIAH 3:17.2-3 (420)

Hence it is often said to sinners: give glory to God! But Babylon and the entire region of the Chaldeans are called dark or gloomy mountains, as in the beginning of Isaiah, where we find written against Babylon: "Raise the signal on a dark mountain," which in Hebrew is called nishpeh.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain,.... Or "upon the mountain Nishphah"; some high mountain in Media or Persia, proper to set a standard on, or erect a banner for the gathering men together, to enlist themselves as soldiers, and so form an army to march into the land of Chaldea. Vitringa thinks there may be an allusion to the mountain Zagrius, which divides Media and Persia from Assyria, mentioned by Strabo (x).

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Exalt the voice - The word להם lahem, “to them,” which is of no use, and rather weakens the sentence, is omitted by an ancient MS., and the Vulgate.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
עַ֤ל	'al	on	H5921 →
הַר־	har-	a mountain	H2022 →
נִשְׁפֶּה֙	nish.Peh	swept bare	H8192 →
שְֽׂאוּ־	se.'u-	lift up	H5375 →
נֵ֔ס	Nes	a standard	H5251 →
הָרִ֥ימוּ	ha.Ri.mu	lift up	H7311 →
ק֖וֹל	Kol	a voice	H6963 →
לָהֶ֑ם	la.Hem	to them
הָנִ֣יפוּ	ha.Ni.fu	wave	H5130 →
יָ֔ד	Yad	a hand	H3027 →
וְיָבֹ֖אוּ	ve.ya.Vo.'u	so they may go	H935 →
פִּתְחֵ֥י	pit.Chei	[the] doors of	H6607 →
נְדִיבִֽים׃	ne.di.Vim	noble [people]	H5081 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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Jeremiah 51:58
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will…
leads to
- Jeremiah 51:44
  I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Habakkuk 2:13
  Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?
Through
Jeremiah 50:2
“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced,…
leads to
- Isaiah 46:1
  Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.
- Isaiah 21:9
  Look, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one answered, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”
Through
Jeremiah 51:25
“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs and turn…
leads to
- Revelation 8:8
  Then the second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned to blood,
- Zechariah 4:7
  What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain. Then he will bring forth the capstone accompanied by shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’”
Through
Isaiah 5:26
He lifts a banner for the distant nations and whistles for those at the ends of the earth. Behold—how speedily and swiftly they come!
leads to
- Zechariah 10:8
  I will whistle for them to gather, for I have redeemed them; and they will be as numerous as they once were.
- Deuteronomy 28:49
  The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Isaiah

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

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About Isaiah