Isaiæ 41:5

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Viderunt insulæ, et timuerunt ; extrema terræ obstupuerunt, appropinquaverunt, et accesserunt.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
venerunt viri de Sichem, et de Silo, et de Samaria, octoginta viri, rasi barba, et scissis vestibus, et squallentes: et munera et thus habebant in manu, ut offerrent in domo Domini.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
venerunt viri de Sichem et de Silo et de Samaria, octoginta viri, rasi barba et scissis vestibus et incisi in cute, et munera et tus habebant in manu, ut offerrent in domo Domini.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

came: 2 Kings 10:13, 2 Kings 10:14

Shechem: Genesis 33:18, Genesis 34:2, Joshua 24:32, Judges 9:1, 1 Kings 12:1, 1 Kings 12:25

Shiloh: Jeremiah 7:12, Jeremiah 7:14, Joshua 18:1

Samaria: 1 Kings 16:24, 1 Kings 16:29

their beards: All these were signs of deep mourning; which, though forbidden on funeral occasions, were customary, and perhaps counted allowable, on seasons of public calamity, and this mourning was probably on account of the destruction of Jerusalem. Leviticus 19:27, Leviticus 19:28, Deuteronomy 14:1, 2 Samuel 10:4, Isaiah 15:2

to the: 1 Samuel 1:7, 2 Kings 25:9, Psalms 102:14

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 19:24 - dressed his feet 1 Chronicles 19:4 - shaved them Psalms 66:15 - with the Jeremiah 16:6 - nor cut Jeremiah 47:5 - how Jeremiah 48:37 - every head Matthew 2:8 - that

Gill's Notes on the Bible

That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria,.... Places in the ten tribes, and which belonged to the kingdom of Israel; so that it seems even at this distance of time, though the body of the ten tribes had been many years ago carried captive, yet there were still some religious persons sons remaining, and who had a great regard to the temple worship at Jerusalem:

[even] fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves; as mourners for the destruction of Jerusalem, and the captivity of the people. The two first of these rites, shaving the beard, and rending of clothes, were agreeably to the law; but that of cutting themselves, their flesh with their nails, or knives, was forbidden by it, Leviticus 19:28; so that these people seemed to have retained some of the Heathenish customs of the places where they lived; for the king of Assyria had placed colonies of Heathens in Samaria, and the cities of it, 2 Kings 17:24; these came

with offerings and incense in their hands: a meat offering made of fine flour, as the word signifies; and incense, or frankincense, which used to be put upon such an offering, Leviticus 2:1;

to bring [them] to the house of the Lord; but the temple was now destroyed; wherefore either they thought there was a tabernacle or sanctuary erected at Mizpah for divine service and sacrifice; or they intended to offer these offerings on the spot where the temple of Jerusalem stood; and where they hoped to find an altar, if only of earth, and priests to sacrifice; though the Jewish commentators, Jarchi and Kimchi, observe, that when they first set out, they had not heard of the destruction of the temple, but heard of it in the way; and therefore came in a mourning habit; but before knew nothing of it; and therefore brought offerings with them, according to the former; but, according to the latter, they had heard before they set out of the destruction of Jerusalem, and the captivity of the people; but not of the burning of the temple, until they were on their journey.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

These three towns all lay in the tribe of Ephraim, and in the district planted by Salmaneser with Cuthites; but through the fact of these men having cut themselves (see Jeremiah 16:6 note), is suspicious, yet they were probably pious Israelites, going up to Jerusalem, carrying the meat offering usual at the feast of tabernacles, of which this was the season, and mourning over the destruction, not of the city, but of the temple, to the repairs of which we find the members of this tribe contributing in Josiah’s time 2 Chronicles 34:9.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 41:5. Having their beards shaven — All these were signs of deep mourning, probably on account of the destruction of the city.