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Text -- Isaiah 34:7 (NET)

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34:7 Wild oxen will be slaughtered along with them, as well as strong bulls. Their land is drenched with blood, their soil is covered with fat. fat.
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Dictionary Themes and Topics: War | WILD OX | Unicorn | RHINOCEROS | OBADIAH, BOOK OF | Isaiah | ISAIAH, 8-9 | ISAIAH, 1-7 | FATNESS | Edomites | EDOM, IDUMAEA OR IDUMEA | Bullock | more
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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Wesley: Isa 34:7 - -- It is confessed, this was a beast of great strength and fierceness; and it is used in this place to signify their princes and potentates, who shall be...

It is confessed, this was a beast of great strength and fierceness; and it is used in this place to signify their princes and potentates, who shall be humbled and cast down.

Wesley: Isa 34:7 - -- With the lambs, and goats, and rams.

With the lambs, and goats, and rams.

Wesley: Isa 34:7 - -- With the fat of the slain sacrifices, mingled with it.

With the fat of the slain sacrifices, mingled with it.

JFB: Isa 34:7 - -- Hebrew, reem: conveying the idea of loftiness, power, and pre-eminence (see on Job 39:9), in the Bible. At one time the image in the term answers to a...

Hebrew, reem: conveying the idea of loftiness, power, and pre-eminence (see on Job 39:9), in the Bible. At one time the image in the term answers to a reality in nature; at another it symbolizes an abstraction. The rhinoceros was the original type. The Arab rim is two-horned: it was the oryx (the leucoryx, antelope, bold and pugnacious); but when accident or artifice deprived it of one horn, the notion of the unicorn arose. Here is meant the portion of the Edomites which was strong and warlike.

JFB: Isa 34:7 - -- Rather, "fall down," slain [LOWTH].

Rather, "fall down," slain [LOWTH].

JFB: Isa 34:7 - -- With the "lambs and goats," the less powerful Edomites (Isa 34:6).

With the "lambs and goats," the less powerful Edomites (Isa 34:6).

JFB: Isa 34:7 - -- The young and old Edomites: all classes.

The young and old Edomites: all classes.

JFB: Isa 34:7 - -- Ground.

Ground.

Clarke: Isa 34:7 - -- The unicorns shall come down - ראמים reemim , translated wild goats by Bishop Lowth. The ראם reem Bochart thinks to be a species of wild...

The unicorns shall come down - ראמים reemim , translated wild goats by Bishop Lowth. The ראם reem Bochart thinks to be a species of wild goat in the deserts of Arabia. It seems generally to mean the rhinoceros

With blood "With their blood"- מדמם middamam ; so two ancient MSS. of Kennicott’ s the Syriac, and Chaldee.

Calvin: Isa 34:7 - -- 7.And the unicorns shall come down with them This verse is closely connected with the former, for he adds nothing new, but proceeds with the same fig...

7.And the unicorns shall come down with them This verse is closely connected with the former, for he adds nothing new, but proceeds with the same figure, amplifying what he had said about “rams” and “goats,” to which he adds not only bullocks but wild and savage beasts. It amounts to this, that the vengeance of heaven will be so unrelenting as to spare neither age nor rank, and to mark; for slaughter even cruel giants, notwithstanding their silly fierceness, just as if one were preparing a sacrifice which consisted indiscriminately of every kind of animals. It ought not to be thought strange that lambs are mingled with cruel beasts, for the term “lambs” is not employed in commendation of their mildness or harmlessness, but is applied comparatively to those who are feeble and who belong to the ordinary rank, which lays them under the necessity of having some appearance of modesty.

Although God may appear to be harsh in thus directing his hostility against all classes, yet, by the use of the word “sacrifice,” he claims for himself the praise of justice; and indeed no man, when he comes to the trial, will be found to be without blame, so that on good grounds all, without exception, are irrecoverably ruined. Such is the destruction which awaits all the reprobate, who of their own accord refuse to devote themselves to the service of God; irreligious hands shall offer them in sacrifice. 19

אברים (abbirim) is translated strong by some commentators; I have preferred to follow those who explain it to mean bulls, which it means also in Psa 50:13, though in this passage the Prophet employs the word bulls to denote metaphorically those who are very strong and powerful.

TSK: Isa 34:7 - -- unicorns : or, rhinoceroses, Num 23:22, Num 24:8; Deu 33:17; Job 39:9, Job 39:10; Psa 92:10 the bullocks : Psa 68:30; Jer 46:21, Jer 50:11, Jer 50:27 ...

unicorns : or, rhinoceroses, Num 23:22, Num 24:8; Deu 33:17; Job 39:9, Job 39:10; Psa 92:10

the bullocks : Psa 68:30; Jer 46:21, Jer 50:11, Jer 50:27

soaked : or, drunken, Isa 34:3

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Isa 34:7 - -- And the unicorns - Margin, ‘ Rhinoceros’ ( ראמים re 'ēmı̂ym from ראם re 'êm ). This was evidently an anima...

And the unicorns - Margin, ‘ Rhinoceros’ ( ראמים re 'ēmı̂ym from ראם re 'êm ). This was evidently an animal well known in Palestine, since it is frequently mentioned in the Old Testament (Num 23:22; Deu 33:17; Job 39:9-10; Psa 22:21; Psa 29:6; Psa 92:10, in all which places it is translated unicorn, or unicorn). The derivation of the word is uncertain, and it has been regarded as doubtful what animal is intended. The corresponding Arabic word denotes the oryx, a large and fierce species of the antelope. Gesenius, Schultens, De Wette, and Rosenmuller suppose that the buffalo is intended by the word. Bochart regards it as denoting the gazelle, or a species of the antelope. It can hardly, however, be regarded as so small an animal as the gazelle. The gazelle is common in the neighborhood of mount Sinai; and when Laborde passed through that region his companions killed four, ‘ the father and mother, and two little animals a fortnight old.’ He says of them: ‘ These creatures, which are very lively in their movements, endeavored to bite when they were caught; their hair is a brown yellow, which becomes pale and long as the animals grows old.

In appearance they resemble the Guinea pig. Their legs are of the same height, but the form of their feet is unique; instead of nails and claws, they have three toes in front and four behind, and they walk. like rabbits, on the whole length of the foot. The Arabs call it El Oueber, and know no other name for it. It lives upon the scanty herbage with which the rain in the neighborhood of springs supplies it. It does not burrow in the earth, its feet not being calculated for that purpose; but it conceals itself in the natural holes or clefts which it finds in the rocks.’ (Journey through Arabia Petrea, pp. 106, 107. Lond. 8vo. 1836.) Taylor (Heb. Con.) supposes it means the rhinoceros; a fierce animal that has a single horn on the nose, which is very strong, and which sometimes grows to the height of thirty-seven inches. The ancient versions certainly regarded the word as denoting an animal with a single horn. It denotes here, evidently, some strong, fierce, and wild animal that was horned Psa 22:21, but perhaps it is not possible to determine precisely what animal is meant. For a more full investigation in reference to the kind of animal denoted by the word reem, see the notes at Job 39:9. Here it represents that portion of the people which was strong, warlike, and hitherto unvanquished, and who regarded themselves as invincible.

Shall come down - Shall be subdued, humbled, destroyed.

With them - With the lambs and goats mentioned in Isa 34:6. All classes of the people shall be subdued and subjected to the slaughter.

And the bullocks with the bulls - The young bulls with the old. All shall come down together - the fierce and strong animals representing the fierce and strong people.

And their land shall be soaked with blood - Margin, ‘ Drunken;’ the same word which is rendered ‘ bathed’ in Isa 34:5.

Their dust made fat - Their land manured and made rich with the slain. A battlefield is usually distinguished afterward for its fertility. The field of Waterloo has thus been celebrated, since the great battle there, for producing rank and luxuriant harvests.

Poole: Isa 34:7 - -- The unicorns Heb. the reemim . But what kind of beast this is, whether that beast which is commonly called an unicorn, which seems to be but a ficti...

The unicorns Heb. the reemim . But what kind of beast this is, whether that beast which is commonly called an unicorn, which seems to be but a fiction in the judgment of the learned, or a rhinoceros, or a wild ox or bull, it is needless to trouble the ordinary reader about it; and the learned may consult my Latin Synopsis upon Num 23:22 about it. It is confessed that it was a beast of great strength and fierceness; and it is certain that it is metephorically used in this place, to signify their princes and potentates.

Shall come down shall be humbled and cast down. The LXX. and Syriac render it,

they shall fall down as such beasts do when they have received a deadly blow. With them ; with the lambs, and goats, and rams, last mentioned, Isa 34:6 .

With fatness with the fat of the slain sacrifices, which shall he mingled with it.

Haydock: Isa 34:7 - -- The unicorns. That is, the great and mighty. (Challoner)

The unicorns. That is, the great and mighty. (Challoner)

Gill: Isa 34:7 - -- And the unicorns shall come down with them,.... With the lambs, goats, and rams; that is, either the rhinoceros, as some, there being no such creature...

And the unicorns shall come down with them,.... With the lambs, goats, and rams; that is, either the rhinoceros, as some, there being no such creature as the unicorn; or the buffaloes, as m others; these "shall fall", as the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions render it, they shall be slain, as well as the rest; meaning, that along with the common soldiers, and inferior officers, the general officers should fall; and so the Targum,

"and the mighty shall be slain with them.''

R. Abraham Seba says n he read in a certain book, that the word here should not be read ראמים, "unicorns", but רומיים, "the Romans shall come down", &c.:

and the bullocks with the bulls: or, as the Targum,

"and the rulers with the princes;''

the same with the kings, captains, and mighty men in Rev 19:18,

and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness; Or, "their land shall be inebriated" o, or made drunk, with blood; and the dust thereof thickened by it, and made clods of with it, as the parched earth is watered with a plentiful shower, and the dust laid with it: this is a just retaliation to the whore of Rome, who has been made drunk with the blood of the saints, and now blood shall be given her to drink, even her own, with which she shall be filled, and welter and wallow in the clods of it, Rev 17:6.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Isa 34:7 Heb “and bulls along with strong ones.” Perhaps this refers to the leaders.

Geneva Bible: Isa 34:7 And the ( h ) unicorns shall come down with them, and the bulls with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat wit...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Isa 34:1-17 - --1 The judgments wherewith God revenges his church.11 The desolation of her enemies.16 The certainty of the prophecy.

MHCC: Isa 34:1-8 - --Here is a prophecy of the wars of the Lord, all which are both righteous and successful. All nations are concerned. And as they have all had the benef...

Matthew Henry: Isa 34:1-8 - -- Here we have a prophecy, as elsewhere we have a history, of the wars of the Lord, which we are sure are all both righteous and successful. This worl...

Keil-Delitzsch: Isa 34:5-7 - -- If we bear this in mind, we shall not be surprised that the prophet gives the following reason for the passing away of the present heavens. "For my...

Constable: Isa 7:1--39:8 - --III. Israel's crisis of faith chs. 7--39 This long section of the book deals with Israel's major decision in Isa...

Constable: Isa 13:1--35:10 - --B. God's sovereignty over the nations chs. 13-35 This major section of the book emphasizes the folly of ...

Constable: Isa 34:1--35:10 - --4. The consequences of Israel's trust chs. 34-35 This section concludes the major section of Isa...

Constable: Isa 34:1-17 - --Yahweh's day of judgment ch. 34 This poem depicts the effects of Yahweh's wrath on the self-exalting nations. His judgment will be universal (vv. 1-4)...

Guzik: Isa 34:1-17 - --Isaiah 34 - The Indignation of the Lord against All Nations A. The indignation of the LORD against the peoples of the nations. 1. (1-4) The fury and...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Isaiah (Book Introduction) ISAIAH, son of Amoz (not Amos); contemporary of Jonah, Amos, Hosea, in Israel, but younger than they; and of Micah, in Judah. His call to a higher deg...

JFB: Isaiah (Outline) PARABLE OF JEHOVAH'S VINEYARD. (Isa. 5:1-30) SIX DISTINCT WOES AGAINST CRIMES. (Isa. 5:8-23) (Lev 25:13; Mic 2:2). The jubilee restoration of posses...

TSK: Isaiah (Book Introduction) Isaiah has, with singular propriety, been denominated the Evangelical Prophet, on account of the number and variety of his prophecies concerning the a...

TSK: Isaiah 34 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Isa 34:1, The judgments wherewith God revenges his church; Isa 34:11, The desolation of her enemies; Isa 34:16, The certainty of the prop...

Poole: Isaiah (Book Introduction) THE ARGUMENT THE teachers of the ancient church were of two sorts: 1. Ordinary, the priests and Levites. 2. Extraordinary, the prophets. These we...

Poole: Isaiah 34 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 34 God’ s fury and wrath against his church’ s enemies, Isa 34:1-10 . Their land utterly desolate, Isa 34:11-15 . The certainty h...

MHCC: Isaiah (Book Introduction) Isaiah prophesied in the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. He has been well called the evangelical prophet, on account of his numerous and...

MHCC: Isaiah 34 (Chapter Introduction) (Isa 34:1-8) God's vengeance against the enemies of his church. (Isa 34:9-17) Their desolation.

Matthew Henry: Isaiah (Book Introduction) An Exposition, With Practical Observations, of The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Prophet is a title that sounds very great to those that understand it, t...

Matthew Henry: Isaiah 34 (Chapter Introduction) In this chapter we have the fatal doom of all the nations that are enemies to God's church and people, though Edom only is mentioned, because of th...

Constable: Isaiah (Book Introduction) Introduction Title and writer The title of this book of the Bible, as is true of the o...

Constable: Isaiah (Outline) Outline I. Introduction chs. 1-5 A. Israel's condition and God's solution ch. 1 ...

Constable: Isaiah Isaiah Bibliography Alexander, Joseph Addison. Commentary on the Prophecies of Isaiah. 1846, 1847. Revised ed. ...

Haydock: Isaiah (Book Introduction) THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAS. INTRODUCTION. This inspired writer is called by the Holy Ghost, (Ecclesiasticus xlviii. 25.) the great prophet; from t...

Gill: Isaiah (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH This book is called, in the New Testament, sometimes "the Book of the Words of the Prophet Esaias", Luk 3:4 sometimes only t...

Gill: Isaiah 34 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 34 This chapter is a prophecy of the destruction of all the antichristian nations of the world, and particularly of Rome, si...

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