Isaiah 30:17

Elef echad shall flee at the threat of one; 1 at the threat of five shall ye flee; 1 until ye be left as a pole upon the top of the har, 1 and as a nes (banner, flag) on a hill. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.

In Context

16But ye said, No; 1 for we will flee upon sus; 1 therefore shall ye flee; 1 and, We will ride off upon the swift; 1 therefore shall they that pursue you be swift. 1

18And therefore will Hashem wait, 1 that He may be gracious unto you, 1 and therefore will He be exalted, 1 that He may have rachamim upon you; 1 for Hashem is Elohei Mishpat; 1 Ashrei are all they that wait for Him.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:8And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the cherev.

Leviticus 26:36And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a fearful faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a cherev; and they shall fall v'ein rodef (when none pursueth, persecutes).

Deuteronomy 32:30How should echad chase an elef (thousand), 1 and shnayim (two) put ten thousand to flight, 1 except their tzur had sold them, 1 and Hashem had shut them up? 1

Nehemiah 1:2That Chanani, one of my achim, + 1:2 See 7:2 came, he and certain men, from Yehudah; and I asked them concerning the remnant of the Yehudim that had survived the Exile, + 1:2 the Golus and concerning Yerushalayim.

Isaiah 1:7Your country is desolate, 1 your cities are burned with eish; 1 your land, zarim devour it in your presence, 1 and it is desolate, as overthrown by zarim. 1

Isaiah 6:13But yet in it shall be a tenth, 1 and it shall be given up to destruction, 1 like the terebinth and like the oak, 1 when they are felled, leave + 6:13 as a remnant a root-stump: 1 so the root-stump shall be the zera kodesh. + 6:13 T.N. This next chapter is possibly the most important in the Bible and is dealt with in The Translator to the Reader.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 30:9-18

Doom of Incorrigible Sinners. ( b. c. 720.) 8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: 9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord : 10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: 11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. 12… Read the whole commentary →

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