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Isaiah 7:24 KJV
Isaiah · chapter 7 · verse 24
With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.Isaiah 7:24 · King James Version
Isaiah 7:24 in context
22And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.
23And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
24With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
25And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- arrowschêtsproperly, a piercerH2671 →
- briersshâmîyra thornH8068 →
- bowsqeshetha bow, forshooting or the irisH7198 →
- comebôwʼto go or comeH935 →
- landʼeretsthe earthH776 →
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After the comfortable promises made to Ahaz as a branch of the house of David, here follow terrible threatenings against him, as a degenerate branch of that house;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 17-25