Jesaja 17:1

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burden: Isaiah 15:1, Isaiah 19:1

Damascus: Isaiah 7:8, Genesis 14:15, Genesis 15:2, 1 Kings 11:24, 1 Chronicles 18:5, 2 Chronicles 28:5, 2 Chronicles 28:23, Jeremiah 49:23-27, Amos 1:3-5, Zechariah 9:1, Acts 9:2

Damascus is: Isaiah 8:4, Isaiah 10:9, 2 Kings 16:9

a ruinous: Isaiah 25:2, Isaiah 37:26, Jeremiah 49:2, Micah 1:6, Micah 3:12

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 13:16 - an heap Joshua 8:28 - an heap Isaiah 7:16 - the land Isaiah 9:11 - set up Isaiah 13:1 - burden Isaiah 21:1 - The burden Amos 3:12 - so shall

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The burden of Damascus,.... A heavy and grievous prophecy, concerning the destruction of it; the Arabic version is,

"the prophecy of Isaiah concerning Damascus;''

and the Targum is,

"the burden of the cup of cursing to give Damascus to drink.''

Behold, Damascus is taken away from [being] a city; a kingdom, as the Targum; it was the head of one, but now its walls were demolished, its houses pulled down, and its inhabitants carried captive; this was done by Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria, 2 Kings 16:9 it had been a very ancient city, see Genesis 15:2 and the head of the kingdom of Syria, Isaiah 7:8, and though it underwent this calamity, it was rebuilt again, and was a city of great fame, when destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, Jeremiah 49:24 after which it was raised up again, and was in being in the apostle's time, and still is, Acts 9:22

2 Corinthians 11:32

and it shall be a ruinous heap; or a heap of stones, as the Targum and Kimchi interpret it. A "behold" is prefixed to the whole, as being very wonderful and remarkable, unthought of, and unexpected.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The burden of Damascus - The oracle indicating calamity or destruction to Damascus (see the note at Isaiah 13:1). “Damascus is taken away.” That is, it shall be destroyed. It was represented to the prophet in vision as destroyed (see the note at Isaiah 1:1).

And it shall be a ruinous heap - See Isaiah 35:2. This took place under the kings of Assyria, and particularly under Tiglath-pileser. This was in the fourth year of Ahaz 2 Kings 16:9.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XVII

Judgments of God upon Damascus, 1-3;

and upon Israel, 4-6.

Good effects of these judgments on the small remnant or

gleaning that should escape them, 7, 8.

The same judgments represented in other but stronger terms,

and imputed to irreligion and neglect of God, 9-11.

The remaining verses are a distinct prophecy, a beautiful

detached piece, worked up with the greatest elegance,

sublimity, and propriety; and forming a noble description of

the formidable invasion and sudden overthrow of Sennacherib,

exactly suitable to the event, 12-14.

This prophecy by its title should relate only to Damascus; but it full as much concerns, and more largely treats of, the kingdom of Samaria and the Israelites, confederated with Damascus and the Syrians against the kingdom of Judah. It was delivered probably soon after the prophecies of the seventh and eighth chapters, in the beginning of the reign of Ahaz; and was fulfilled by Tiglath-pileser's taking Damascus, and carrying the people captives to Kir, (2 Kings 16:9,) and overrunning great part of the kingdom of Israel, and carrying a great number of the Israelites also captives to Assyria; and still more fully in regard to Israel, by the conquest of the kingdom, and the captivity of the people, effected a few years after by Shalmaneser. - L.

NOTES ON CHAP. XVII

Verse Isaiah 17:1. The burden of Damascus. — Which is, according to the common version, The cities of Aroer are forsaken. It has already been observed by the learned prelate that the prophecy, as it relates to Damascus, was executed in the beginning of the reign of Ahaz, probably about the third year. If we credit Midrash, the Damascenes were the most extensive and flagrant of all idolaters. "There were in Damascus three hundred and sixty-five streets, in each of these was an idol, and each idol had his peculiar day of worship; so that the whole were worshipped in the course of the year." This, or any thing like this, was a sufficient reason for this city's destruction.

A ruinous heap — For מעי mei, "a ruinous heap," the Septuagint reads לעי lei, "for a ruin," the Vulgate כעי kei, "as a ruin." I follow the former.