Isaiah 11:16

And there will be a highway for the rest of his people from Assyria; as there was for Israel in the day when he came up out of the land of Egypt.

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In The King James Version

And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

In Context

15And the Lord will make the tongue of the Egyptian sea completely dry; and with his burning wind his hand will be stretched out over the River, and it will be parted into seven streams, so that men may go over it with dry feet.

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Cross References

Exodus 14:26And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out over the sea, and the waters will come back again on the Egyptians, and on their war-carriages and on their horsemen.

Isaiah 19:23In that day there will be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria will come into Egypt, and Egypt will come into Assyria; and the Egyptians will give worship to the Lord together with the Assyrians.

Isaiah 35:8And a highway will be there; its name will be, The Holy Way; the unclean and the sinner may not go over it, and those who go on it will not be turned out of the way by the foolish.

Isaiah 42:15I will make waste mountains and hills, drying up all their plants; and I will make rivers dry, and pools dry land.

Isaiah 49:12See, these are coming from far; and these from the north and the west; and these from the land of Sinim.

Isaiah 57:14And I will say, Make it high, make it high, get ready the way, take the stones out of the way of my people.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 11:11-16

Advancement of Messiah's Kingdom. ( b. c. 740.) 10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. 11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. 12 And he… Read the whole commentary →

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