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Isaiah 17:4
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the glory: Isaiah 9:8, Isaiah 9:21, Isaiah 10:4
the fatness: Isaiah 10:16, Isaiah 24:13, Isaiah 24:16, Deuteronomy 32:15-27, Ezekiel 34:20, Zephaniah 2:11, *marg.
Reciprocal: Isaiah 16:14 - the glory Isaiah 17:9 - General Isaiah 21:17 - the mighty Jeremiah 13:25 - thy lot Ezekiel 14:22 - therein Amos 6:13 - Have
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I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.
Then the Angel added, "I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count."
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.
You are to circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and this will be a sign of the covenant between Me and you.
And Abraham said to God, "O that Ishmael might live under Your blessing!"
I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
But You have said, 'I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.'"
And God told him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation-even a company of nations-shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.
But his father refused. "I know, my son, I know!" he said. "He too shall become a people, and he too shall be great; nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And in that day it shall come to pass,.... It being much about the same time that both kingdoms were destroyed by the Assyrians:
[that] the glory of Jacob shall be made thin; the same with Ephraim and Israel, the ten tribes, whose glory lay in the superior number of their tribes to Judah; in the multitude of their cities, and the inhabitants of them; but now would be thinned, by the vast numbers that should be carried captive:
and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean: like a man in a consumption, that is become a mere skeleton, and reduced to skin and bones: the meaning is, that all their wealth and riches should be taken away; so the Targum,
"and the riches of his glory shall be carried away.''
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The glory of Jacob - “Jacob” is used here to denote the kingdom of Israel, or Samaria. The word ‘glory’ here denotes dignity, power; that on which they relied, and of which they boasted.
Shall be made thin - Shall be diminished, as a body wastes away by disease, and becomes feeble. The prophet sets forth the calamities of Ephraim by two figures; the first is that of a “body” that becomes emaciated by sickness, the other that of the harvest when all the fruits are gathered except a few in the upper branches Isaiah 17:5-6.
And the fatness his flesh shall wax lean - He shall become feeble, as a man does by wasting sickness. Chaldee, ‘The riches of his glory shall be removed.’
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Isaiah 17:4. In that day — That is, says Kimchi, the time when the ten tribes of Israel, which were the glory of Jacob, should be carried into captivity.
