Isaiah 3:2
Mighty and man of war, judge and prophet, || And diviner and elderly,
Literal Standard Version
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 [those of] Israel have reckoned themselves by genealogy, and behold, they are written on the scroll of the kings of Israel and Judah—they were removed to Babylon for their trespass.
Isaiah 2:13And for all cedars of Lebanon, || The high and the exalted ones, || And for all oaks of Bashan,
Lamentations 5:12Princes have been hanged by their hand, || Elderly faces have not been honored.
Ezekiel 9:5And to the others he said in my ears, “Pass on into the city after him, and strike; your eye does not pity, nor do you spare;
Amos 2:3And I have cut off judge from her midst, || And I slay all its heads with him,” said YHWH.
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 →