Isaiah 2:4

Yahweh will listen to the disputes between nations and he will settle their arguments. Then, instead of fighting against each other, they will hammer their swords into plow blades, and they will hammer their spears into pruning knives. The armies of nations will no longer fight against each other, and they will not even train men to fight in battles/wars.”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

In Context

3People from many people-groups will say to each other, “Come, let’s go up to the hill, to the temple of Yahweh, to worship the God whom Jacob worshiped. There Yahweh will teach us what he desires us to know, in order that our behavior will please him. His teaching will be given to us in Jerusalem, and we will take his message from Jerusalem to other places/nations.

5You Israeli people, let’s walk in the light [MET] that comes from Yahweh!

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Cross References

Psalms 46:9He stops wars all over the world; he breaks bows and arrows; he destroys spears; he burns up shields.

Psalms 72:3I desire that all over the country—even on the hills and mountains [DOU]— people will live peacefully and righteously.

Psalms 96:13in front of Yahweh. That will happen when he comes to judge everyone on [MTY] the earth. He will judge all the people fairly/justly, according to what he knows is true.

Isaiah 9:5The boots that the enemy soldiers have worn and their clothing which has stains of blood on them will all be burned up; they will only be fuel for a big fire.

Isaiah 11:3He will be glad to obey Yahweh. He will not decide whether someone is righteous or not only by seeing what that person looks like, or by listening to what others say about that person.

Isaiah 11:6When he becomes king, wolves and lambs will live together peacefully; leopards, instead of killing baby goats, will lie down with them. Similarly, calves and lions will eat food together; and a young child will take care of them.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 2:2-6

Increase of the Church Predicted. ( b. c. 758.) 1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord 's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. 3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord , to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his… Read the whole commentary →

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