Isaiah 3:2
He will take away your heroes and your other soldiers, your judges and your prophets, people who do rituals to find out what will happen in the future and the elders,
Translation for Translators
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 9:1The names of all the people of Israel were listed/written with the names of their clans, and that information was written in the scroll/book named ‘The Record of the Kings of Israel’. Many of the people of Judah were captured and forced to go to Babylon. That happened because they did not faithfully do what was pleasing to God.
Isaiah 2:13He will get rid of all those who think they should be admired like [MET] the tall cedar trees in Lebanon, and like all the great oak trees in the Bashan region.
Lamentations 5:12Our enemies have hanged our leaders, and they do not respect our elders.
Ezekiel 9:5While I was listening, he said to the other six men, “Follow the man wearing the white robe, and kill people. Do not pity them or act mercifully toward them.
Amos 2:3and while I am getting rid of its king and all its leaders. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it!”
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 →