Isaiah 21:17 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 21:17

The remaining archers, the warriors of Kedar, will be few.” For the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken.

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ASV

and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be few; for Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath spoken it.

KJV

And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the Lord God of Israel hath spoken it.

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Commentary

2 voices

Thomas Aquinas

Commentary on Isaiah (1274)

Second, by the Chaldeans: the residue, left behind by the Assyrians, shall be diminished, by the Chaldeans; Cedar, the son of Ishmael; archers, following the art of their father, where it is said of Ishmael that he became an archer (Gen 21:20).

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

And the residue of the number - That is, those who shall be left in the invasion. Or perhaps it may be read, ‘There shall be a renmant of the number of bowmen; the mighty people of Kedar shall be diminished.’ Of archers - Hebrew, ‘Of the bow;’ that is, of those who use bows in war. The bow was the common instrument in hunting and in war among the ancients. Shall be diminished - Hebrew, ‘Shall be made small;’ they shall be reduced to a very small number.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּשְׁאָ֧ר	u.she.'Ar	and [the] remnant of	H7605 →
מִסְפַּר־	mis.par-	a number of	H4557 →
קֶ֛שֶׁת	Ke.shet	bowmen	H7198 →
גִּבּוֹרֵ֥י	gi.bo.Rei	[the] warriors of	H1368 →
בְנֵֽי־	ve.nei-	[the] people of	H1121 →
קֵדָ֖ר	ke.Dar	Kedar	H6938 →
יִמְעָ֑טוּ	yim.'A.tu	they will be few	H4591 →
כִּ֛י	ki	for	H3588 →
יְהוָ֥ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֱלֹהֵֽי־	'e.lo.hei-	[the] God of	H430 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
דִּבֵּֽר׃ ס	di.Ber	he has spoken	H1696 →

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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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
Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
leads to
- Numbers 23:19
  God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 40:8
  The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”
- 1 Peter 1:25
  but the word of the Lord stands forever.” And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.
- Isaiah 55:11
  so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.
- Matthew 5:18
  For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.
Through
Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
leads to
- 1 Samuel 15:29
  Moreover, the Glory of Israel does not lie or change His mind, for He is not a man, that He should change His mind.”
- James 1:17
  Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
- Malachi 3:6
  “Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.

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