Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them.
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Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing. They will return to Yahweh, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them.
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And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.
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And the LORD will smite Egypt, smiting and healing; and they shall return unto the LORD, and He will be entreated of them, and will heal them.
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Passages linked to Isaiah 19:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 32:39 “See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.
- Hebrews 12:11 All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
- Hosea 14:1 Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.
- Job 5:18 For he wounds and binds up. He injures and his hands make whole.
- Isaiah 6:10 Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”
- Isaiah 19:1-15 The burden of Egypt. “Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt within it. I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom. The spirit of Egypt will fail within it. I will destroy its counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards. I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord. A fierce king will rule over them,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies. The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry. The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away. The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, will become dry, be driven away, and be no more. The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish. Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, will be confounded. The pillars will be broken in pieces. All those who work for hire will be grieved in soul. The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?” Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now; and let them know what Yahweh of Armies has purposed concerning Egypt. The princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes of Memphis are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go astray, who are the cornerstone of her tribes. Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the middle of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit. Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which head or tail, palm branch or rush, may do.
- Isaiah 45:14 Yahweh says: “The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you, and they will be yours. They will go after you. They shall come over in chains. They will bow down to you. They will make supplication to you: ‘Surely God is in you; and there is no one else. There is no other god.
- Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.
- Hosea 5:15 I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”
- Hosea 6:2 After two days he will revive us. On the third day he will raise us up, and we will live before him.
- Amos 4:6-12 “I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh. “I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, and the piece where it didn’t rain withered. So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh. “I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards; and the swarming locusts have devoured your fig trees and your olive trees; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh. “I sent plagues among you like I did Egypt. I have slain your young men with the sword, and have carried away your horses; and I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh. “I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh. “Therefore thus I will do to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel.
- Acts 26:17-20 delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you, to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’ “Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.
- Acts 28:26-27 saying, ‘Go to this people and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive. For this people’s heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, then I would heal them.’
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Isa 19:22 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he…
Isa 19:22 And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal [it]: and they shall return [even] to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.
Ver. 22. And the Lord shall smite Egypt.] That he may bring it into the bond of the covenant. {Eze 20:37 Heb 12:9 Hos 6:1}
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He shall smite and heal it.] Heb., Smiting and healing. Una eademque manus, &c. Una gerit bellum monstrat manus altera pacem; as it was said of Charles V. Facit opus alienum ut faciat proprium {Isa 28:20}
And shall heal them.] Pardon their sins, heal their natures, and make up all breaches in their outward estates.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain He shall smite and heal it; God will afflict…
He shall smite and heal it; God will afflict them by oppressors, Isa 19:20, and otherwise; and by those afflictions he will convert and save them.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the Lord shall smite Egypt,.... By one afflictive…
And the Lord shall smite Egypt,.... By one afflictive providence or another, which shall awaken them to a sense of sin and duty; or smite their consciences with convictions of sin, through the ministry of the word by his spirits:
he shall smite and heal it; or "smiting and healing" (f); as he smites he shall heal, by an application of pardoning grace and mercy, by sprinkling the blood of Christ on their wounded consciences, and by pouring in the oil and wine of divine love into the wounds made by sin:
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and they shall return, even to the Lord: by faith and repentance; or to his worship, as the Targum; by an obedience to his will, and shall cleave unto him:
and he shall be entreated of them, and he shall heal them; when wounded with a sense of sin, and pricked to the heart, they shall cry unto him, and entreat his pardoning grace and mercy, which, being applied to them, heals; for healing diseases and forgiving iniquities are one and the same thing; see Psa 103:3.
(f) "percutiendo et sanando", Pagninus, Montanus, Piscator, Tigurine version.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Smite - God will afflict them and by those…
Smite - God will afflict them and by those afflictions will convert and save them.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain And the Lord shall smite Egypt - That is,…
And the Lord shall smite Egypt - That is, in the manner described in the previous part of this prophecy Isa 19:2-10.
And heal it - Or restore it to more than its former splendor and prosperity, as described in the previous verses Isa 19:18-20. He shall send it a saviour; he shall open new sources of prosperity; and he shall cause the true religion to flourish there. These advantages would be more than a compensation for all the calamities that he would bring upon it.
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And they shall return ... - These calamities shall be the means of their conversion to Yahweh.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Scourge. By means of Sennacherib, Cambyses, and Ochus. Afterwards…
Scourge. By means of Sennacherib, Cambyses, and Ochus. Afterwards the country was quietly subject to the kings of Persia, Alexander the Great, the Ptolemies, and the Romans. (Calmet)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain return--for heathen sin and idolatry are an apostasy from…
return--for heathen sin and idolatry are an apostasy from primitive truth.
heal--as described (Isa 19:18-20).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 22. Smite Egypt — Egypt’s allegiance to Jehovah will…
22. Smite Egypt — Egypt’s allegiance to Jehovah will still be very mixed, calling for smitings to amend and correct the people.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 22. he shall smite and heal it] lit. “with…
22. he shall smite and heal it] lit. “with a smiting and a healing,” i.e. He will smite only in order to heal (Hos_6:1). be intreated] hear their supplications (Niph. tolerativum).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (22) And the Lord shall smite Egypt . .…
(22) And the Lord shall smite Egypt . . .—The tone of the preceding verses seems at first at variance with the stern prophecies of disaster with which the chapter opened. The prophet, however, is no eater of his words. What he has learnt is to look beyond the chastisement, and to see that it is as true of Egypt as of Israel, that “whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth.” The sword of Jehovah smote but to heal, and the healing could not come without the smiting. Through it they would be led to pray, and prayer was the condition of all spiritual recovery.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And Jehovah shall smite Egypt, smiting and healing; i.e.…
And Jehovah shall smite Egypt, smiting and healing; i.e. Jehovah shall indeed "smite Egypt," as already prophesied (vers. 1-16), but it shall be with a merciful object, in order, after smiting, to "heal." His smiting shall induce them to "return" to him, and when they return he will forgive and save. (comp. Zep_3:8, 9 Jer_12:14-16) Egypt was a Christian country from the third century to the seventh; and the Coptic Church (though very corrupt) still remains, knowing Jehovah, and offering the holy oblation of the Christian altar continually.
Smiting and healing closely connected in God"s counsels.
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God"s smiting is no doubt twofold,
(1) remedial and
(2) penal; but by far the greater portion of it is of the former kind.
Once only has he visited mankind at large penalty at the Deluge; but a thousand times has he visited them remedially. Similarly with nations. He smote Egypt in Moses" time with the ten plagues, not to destroy, but to chasten. So again at the Red Sea. So now by the hands of Esarhaddon and his son. So by Nebuchadnezzar, Cambyses, Ochus. And at last he bowed their hearts and caused them to turn to him, first partially, when Judaism gained an influence over them; afterwards, as a nation, when they accepted Christianity. Former chastisements had doubtless some remedial force, or the nation would scarcely have been borne with so long; but they did not fully heal, and blow after blow became requisite. So God went on "smiting and healing." And the course of his providence is similar with individuals. Primarily he smites to heal. Each offence brings down his red, but the stroke is comparatively light at first, and intended to warn, admonish, call to amendment. If men persist in wrong courses, the blows become heavier. But still the intention is the same; it is sought to bring them to repentance. God has no pleasure in the death of him that dieth. Only after repeated trials, after blow upon blow, warning upon warning, if they will not repent, if they will not be healed, the penal sentence goes forth to "pluck up and destroy". (Jer_12:17)
God both Smiter and Healer.
"The meaning is not simply that the stroke should be followed by healing, nor is it simply that the stroke should possess a healing virtue; but both ideas seem to be included." The full thought is expressed by the Prophet, (Hos_6:1, Hos_6:2) "Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight." Henderson says, "The doctrine here taught is, that when God has purposes of mercy towards a sinful people, he will continue to visit them with calamities till they are humbled, and thus brought into a fit state for appreciating the value of his mercies." For illustrations of the same view of God"s working, see Job_5:17-19 Isa_57:15-19 Hos_5:15. There are few conceptions of God which should seem so tender and so restfully satisfying as this to conscious sinners who long to be freed from their sins. God will not leave us alone; he will smite. God will watch the effects of his smiting, and take the first opportunity to heal. God never smites save with the prospect before him of healing, and with gracious intentions of making his healings an unspeakable blessing intention of healing is predominant throughout". (comp. Zep_3:8,jer Zeph 12:5-7)
I THESE TWO THINGS SMITING AND HEALING ARE OFTEN SEVERED IN MAN.
1. Some smite for others to heal.
2. Some smite in malice, and do not want us to be healed.
3. Some smite in willfulness, and do not care whether we are healed.
4. Some smite in kindness, but are unable to heal the wounds they make.
And so often men do not know how to smite, though they mean well, and so the wounds they make are mischievous, and only wounds, not really corrective agencies. Man"s bungling ways in smiting and healing, make us say, after David, "Let me fall into the hands of the Lord, and not into the hands of man.
II THESE TWO THINGS SMITING AND HEALING ARE ALWAYS UNITED IN GOD.
1. In God"s thought.
2. In God"s arrangement.
3. Given time enough, also in God"s action.
Because of the union God"s smitings can always be severe enough to be efficient. He can venture to smite harder than any man can ever do, But God"s wounds never go beyond his healing power. The most striking illustration is perhaps that set before us in the story of Job. In dealing with him we know not which to admire most God"s wonderful smitings, God"s wonderful healings, or the gracious way in which the smitings and the healings fitted in together. R.T.
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The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary 1892 · Public Domain Isa_19:22. And the Lord shall smite Egypt, &c.
CHASTISEMENT
Isa_19:22. And the Lord shall smite Egypt, &c.
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I. The benevolent design of God in chastisement. God smites in order to heal. Scripture teaches throughout that God’s dealings with men are—
1. Not capricious.
2. Not indiscriminate.
3. Not unjust. He does not impose burdens that cannot be borne, nor exact obedience which man cannot render, nor select favourites for preference or victims for vengeance, without any regard to the relations existing between man and Himself. Contrary to all this, God’s smiting is that—
(1) of a Rescuer, who inflicts blows upon our chains that He may set us free;
(2) of a Physician, who in mercy probes the wound that He may heal it;
(3) of a Father, who uses the rod for the salutary purposes of correction and reformation (H. E. I., 56–74).
II. The conduct befitting in men when under chastisement. “And they shall return,” &c. This return includes—
1. Submission (H. E. I., 143).
2. Entreaty for help. (See also Isa_19:20.) This involves humble confession of sin, and hearty reliance upon God (H. E. I., 145–147).
3. Sincerity of purpose, as manifested in the fulfilment of vows. (See also Isa_19:21.)—William Manning.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 19:22 strike Egypt: The Hebrew verb used here is…
19:22 strike Egypt: The Hebrew verb used here is the same as the one used for the tenth plague (Exod 12:13, 23, 27), bringing up associations of what God did during the Exodus. • The Lord, who brings a plague, can also bring healing. • he will listen to their pleas and heal them: This expresses a covenantal relationship between the Lord and Egypt (see Isa 65:24).
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