Isaiah 18:2
sends <07971> [sendeth.]
boats <03627> [vessels.]
It is well known that the Egyptians commonly used on the Nile a light sort of ships or boats made of the papyrus. See note on Ex 2:3.
nation ................. nation <01471> [to a nation.]
tall smooth-skinned <04900 04178> [scattered and peeled. or, outspread and polished.]
Or, as Bp. Lowth renders, "stretched out in length and smoothed." Egypt, which is situated between 24 degrees and 32 degrees N. lat. and 30 degrees and 33 degrees E. long., being bounded on the south by Ethiopia, on the north by the Mediterranean, on the east by the mountains of Arabia, and on the west by those of Lybia, is one long vale, 750 miles in length, (through the middle of which runs the Nile,) in breadth from one to two or three day's journey, and even at the widest part of the Delta, from Pelusium to Alexandria, not above 250 miles broad.
people <05971> [to a people.]
[Heb. Meted out and trodden down. or, that meteth out and treadeth down. Heb. of line, line, and treading under foot.]
This is an allusion to the frequent necessity of having recourse to mensuration in Egypt, in order to determine their boundaries, after the inundation of the Nile had smoothed their land and effaced their landmarks; and to their method of throwing seed upon the mud, when the waters had subsided, and treading it in by turning their cattle into the fields.
divide <0958> [have spoiled. or, despise.]
Isaiah 36:2
sent <07971> [A.M. 3294. B.C. 710. sent.]
conduit <08585> [the conduit.]
Isaiah 36:12
eat <0398> [that they may.]
Isaiah 37:2
Isaiah 37:4
<03068> [It may.]
taunt <02778> [to reproach.]
punish <03198> [and will.]
<05375> [lift up.]
remnant <07611> [for the.]
remains <04672> [left. Heb. found.]
Isaiah 37:21
prayed <06419> [Whereas.]
Isaiah 55:11
promise <01697> [shall my.]
accomplished <06213> [it shall accomplish.]
Isaiah 61:1
spirit <07307> [Spirit.]
chosen <04886> [anointed.]
<01319> [to preach.]
encourage <02280> [to bind.]
decree <07121> [to proclaim.]
The proclaiming of perfect liberty to the bound, and the year of acceptance with Jehovah, is a manifest allusion to the proclaiming of the year of the jubilee by sound of trumpet; and our Saviour, by applying this text to himself, plainly declares the typical design of that institution.
Isaiah 66:19
perform <07760> [I will set.]
send <07971> [I will send.]
Tarshish <08659> [Tarshish.]
Tubal <08422> [Tubal.]
coastlands <0339> [the isles.]
heard <08085> [that have.]
