Isaiah 29:1
Woe to Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! 1 Add year to year; let the festivals come round. 1
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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 David lived in the stronghold and called it the city of David. He fortified around it, from the terrace toward the inside.
Isaiah 1:14I hate your new moons and your appointed feasts; 1 they are a burden to me; I am tired of enduring them. 1
Isaiah 31:9They will lose all confidence because of terror, and his princes will be afraid at the sight of Yahweh's battle flag— 1 this is Yahweh's declaration—whose fire is in Zion and whose firepot is in Jerusalem.”
Jeremiah 7:21Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel says this, 'Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and the meat from them.
Ezekiel 43:16The hearth is twelve cubits in length and twelve cubits in width, a square.
Hosea 8:13As for the sacrifices of my offerings, 1 they sacrifice meat and eat it, 1 but I, Yahweh, do not accept them. 1 Now I will think about their iniquity 1 and punish their sins. 1 They will return to Egypt. 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 →