Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 7. And he saw a chariot, &c. "And he saw a chariot with two riders; a rider on an ass, a rider on a camel"] This passage is extremely obscure from the ambiguity of the term bkr recheb, which is used three times, and which signifies a chariot, or any other vehicle, or the rider in it; or a rider on a horse, or any other animal; or a company of chariots, or riders. The prophet may possibly mean a cavalry in two parts, with two sorts of riders; riders on asses or mules, and riders on camels; or led on by two riders, one on an ass, and one on a camel. However, so far it is pretty clear, that Darius and Cyrus, the Medes and the Persians, are intended to be distinguished by the two riders on the two sorts of cattle. It appears from Herodotus, i. 80, that the baggage of Cyrus' army was carried on camels. In his engagement with Croesus, he took off the baggage from the camels, and mounted his horsemen upon them; the enemy's horses, offended with the smell of the camels, turned back and fled. - L.
Matthew Henry Commentary
- The invasion and conquest of Egypt and Ethiopia.
Isaiah was a sign to the people by his unusual dress, when he walke abroad. He commonly wore sackcloth as a prophet, to show himsel mortified to the world. He was to loose this from his loins; to wear n upper garments, and to go barefooted. This sign was to signify, tha the Egyptians and Ethiopians should be led away captives by the king of Assyria, thus stripped. The world will often deem believers foolish when singular in obedience to God. But the Lord will support his servants under the most trying effects of their obedience; and what they are called upon to suffer for his sake, commonly is light compared with what numbers groan under from year to year from sin Those who make any creature their expectation and glory, and so put it in the place of God, will, sooner or later, be ashamed of it. But disappointment in creature-confidences, instead of driving us to despair, should drive us to God, and our expectation shall not be in vain. The same lesson is in force now; and where shall we look for ai in the hour of necessity, but to the Lord our Righteousness _________________________________________________
Original Hebrew וראה7200 רכב7393 צמד6776 פרשׁים6571 רכב7393 חמור2543 רכב7393 גמל1581 והקשׁיב7181 קשׁב7182 רב7227 קשׁב׃7182
