People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns.
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People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns.
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With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
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With arrows and with bow shall one come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
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Passages linked to Isaiah 7:24 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 27:3 Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field, and get me venison.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain As they that go to seek wild beasts among…
As they that go to seek wild beasts among the bushes.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Isa 7:24 With arrows and with bows shall [men]…
Isa 7:24 With arrows and with bows shall [men] come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
Ver. 24. With arrows and with bows shall they come.] For their necessary defence against the wild beasts that haunt those desert places, propter densa ferarum lustra hominibus infesta. This was threatened. {Lev 26:22}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain With arrows and with bows; either to hunt, or…
With arrows and with bows; either to hunt, or to defend themselves from wild beasts, which commonly abide in such desolate and overgrown grounds.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain With arrows and with bows shall men come thither,....…
With arrows and with bows shall men come thither,.... For fear of wild beasts, serpents, and scorpions, as Jarchi; or in order to hunt them, as others; or because of thieves and robbers, as Aben Ezra:
because all the land shall become briers and thorns; among which such creatures, and such sort of men, would hide themselves.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain With arrows - Either to hunt, or to defend…
With arrows - Either to hunt, or to defend themselves from wild beasts, which commonly abide in desolate grounds.
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain With arrows and with bows ... - This is…
With arrows and with bows ... - This is a continuation of the description of its desolation. So entirely would it be abandoned, so utterly desolate would it be, that it would become a vast hunting-ground. It would be covered with shrubs and trees that would afford a convenient covert for wild beasts; and would yield to its few inhabitants a subsistence, not by cultivation, but by the bow and the arrow. There can scarcely be a more striking description of utter desolation. But, perhaps, the long captivity of seventy years in Babylon literally fulfilled it. Judea was a land that, at all times, was subject to depredations from wild beasts. On the banks of the Jordan - in the marshes, and amid the reeds that sprung up in the lower bank or border of the river - the lion found a home, and the tiger a resting place; compare Jer 49:19. When the land was for a little time vacated and forsaken, it would be, therefore, soon filled with wild beasts; and during the desolations of the seventy years’ captivity, there can be no doubt that this was literally fulfilled.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Thither. The hedges shall be rooted up (Haydock) or…
Thither. The hedges shall be rooted up (Haydock) or neglected, so that cattle may graze. (Menochius) --- Two sorts of mountains are specified; some for vineyards, and others for pasture. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain It shall become a vast hunting ground, abounding in…
It shall become a vast hunting ground, abounding in wild beasts (compare Jer 49:19).
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 24. With arrows and with bows] the weapons of…
24. With arrows and with bows] the weapons of the hunter (Gen_27:3).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (24) With arrows and with bows shall men come…
(24) With arrows and with bows shall men come thither . . .—The words admit of two or three distinct interpretations: (1) the invaders shall march through the desolate vineyards shooting down any whom they found, or (2) the people shall carry bows as a protection against the invaders, or (3) the thickets of thorns and briars shall become coverts for the wolves and jackals, the hyena and the bear, and men shall need bows and arrows for their protection against the beasts of prey. Of these (3) has most in its favour.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain With arrows and with bows. Only the hunter will…
With arrows and with bows. Only the hunter will go there, armed with his weapons of chase, to kill the wild animals that will haunt the thickets.
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