Isaiah 29:1
Hoy (woe, doom) to Ariel, + 29:1 i.e., Yerushalayim to Ariel, the city where Dovid dwelt! 1 Add ye shanah to shanah; 1 let chaggim (feasts) cycle around. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
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 5:9So Dovid dwelt in the Metzudah, and called it Ir Dovid. And Dovid built [Ir Dovid] all around from Millo and inward.
Isaiah 1:14Your Rosh Chodesh and your Mo'adim 1 My Nefesh hateth; 1 they are a burden unto Me; 1 I am weary to bear them. 1
Isaiah 31:9And his rock shall pass away in magor (terror), 1 and his sarim shall desert the nes (battle flag) in panic, 1 saith Hashem, Whose fire is in Tziyon, 1 and His furnace in Yerushalayim.
Jeremiah 7:21Thus saith Hashem Tzva'os, Elohei Yisroel; Add your olot unto your zevakhim, and eat basar.
Ezekiel 43:16And the hearth shall be square, twelve cubits long, by twelve wide.
Hosea 8:13They sacrifice basar for the sacrifices of Mine offerings, and eat it; 1 but Hashem accepteth them not; 1 now will He remember their avon (iniquity), and visit punishment on their sins; 1 they shall return to Mitzrayim. 1
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 →