Isaiah 3:2
the mighty man and the man of war, the judge and the prophet, and the diviner and the elder,
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
In Context
Cross References
1 Chronicles 9:1And all Israel were registered by genealogy; and behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel. And Judah was carried away to Babylon because of their transgression.
Isaiah 2:13and upon all the cedars of Lebanon, high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan;
Lamentations 5:12Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured.
Ezekiel 9:5And to the others he said in my hearing, Go after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have pity.
Amos 2:3And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith Jehovah.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 3:2-9
Judgments Denounced. ( b. c. 758.) 1 For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, 2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, 3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator. 4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. 5 And the people… Read the whole commentary →