Isaiah 19:6 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 19:6

The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.

BSB

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ASV

And the rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither away.

KJV

And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Shall turn the rivers far away “Shall become putrid” - האזניחו heeznichu. This sense of the word, which Simonis gives in his Lexicon, from the meaning of it in Arabic, suits the place much better than any other interpretation hitherto given; and that the word in Hebrew had some such signification, is probable from 2Ch 29:19, where the Vulgate renders it by polluit, polluted, and the Targum, by profaned, and made abominable, which the context in that place seems plainly to require.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

HORSLEY, with the Septuagint, translates, "And waters from the sea shall be drunk"; by the failure of the river water they shall be reduced to sea water. brooks of defence--rather, "canals of Egypt"; "canals," literally, "Niles," Nile canals, the plural of the Egyptian term for the great river.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְהֶאֶזְנִ֣יחוּ	ve.he.'ez.Ni.chu	and they will stink	H2186 →
נְהָר֔וֹת	ne.ha.Rot	[the] rivers	H5104 →
דָּלֲל֥וּ	da.la.Lu	they will be low	H1809 →
וְחָרְב֖וּ	ve.cha.re.Vu	and they will become dry	H2717 →
יְאֹרֵ֣י	ye.'o.Rei	[the] canals of	H2975 →
מָצ֑וֹר	ma.Tzor	Egypt	H4693 →
קָנֶ֥ה	ka.Neh	reed[s]	H7070 →
וָס֖וּף	va.Suf	and rush[es]	H5488 →
קָמֵֽלוּ׃	ka.Me.lu	they will wither	H7060 →

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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.

Through
Exodus 2:3
But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the…
leads to
- Exodus 1:22
  Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: “Every son born to the Hebrews you must throw into the Nile, but every daughter you may allow to live.”
- Acts 7:19
  He exploited our people and oppressed our fathers, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.
- Genesis 6:14
  Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; make rooms in the ark and coat it with pitch inside and out.
- Isaiah 18:2
  which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land…
- Matthew 2:16
  When Herod saw that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was filled with rage. Sending orders, he put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years…
Through
Isaiah 37:25
I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
leads to
- 1 Kings 20:10
  Then Ben-hadad sent another message to Ahab: “May the gods deal with me, and ever so severely, if enough dust remains of Samaria for each of my men to have a handful.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Exodus 7:18
The fish in the Nile will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink its water.’”
leads to
- Exodus 7:24
  So all the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink the water from the river.
- Exodus 7:21
  The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water. And there was blood throughout the land of Egypt.

About Isaiah

The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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