Isaiah 29:1
Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the town where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let the festivals come round in order;
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
In Context
Cross References
2 Samuel 5:9And David dwelt in the fort, and he called it “The City of David.” And David built [it] round about from the Millo and inward.
Isaiah 1:14Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are become a burden unto me; I am weary to bear them,
Isaiah 31:9And his stronghold shall pass away for fear, and his princes shall be terrified because of the ensign, saith the Lord, who hath a fire in Zion, and a furnace in Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 7:21Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Add your burnt-offerings unto your peace-sacrifices, and eat the flesh thereof.
Ezekiel 43:16And the upper surface of the altar shall be twelve cubits long, by twelve broad, square on its four sides.
Hosea 8:13My sacrificial offerings they slay as common flesh that they may eat it; the Lord accepteth them not in favor: now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins; they shall indeed return to Egypt.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 29:1
This woe to Ariel, which we have in this chapter, is the same with the "burden of the valley of vision" ( ch. xxii. 1 ), and (it is very probable) points at the same event—the besieging of Jerusalem by the Assyrian army, which was cut off there by an angel; yet it is applicable to the destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans, and its last desolations by the Romans. Here is, I. The event itself foretold, that Jerusalem should be greatly distressed, ver. 1-4 , 6 ), but that their enemies, who distressed them,… Read the whole commentary →