Isaiah 29:1
Ah altar, altar of the citie that Dauid dwelt in: adde yere vnto yere: let them kill lambs.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 Dauid dwelt in that forte, and called it the citie of Dauid, and Dauid built rounde about it, from Millo, and inward.
Isaiah 1:14My soule hateth your newe moones and your appointed feastes: they are a burden vnto me: I am weary to beare them.
Isaiah 31:9And he shall go for feare to his towre, and his princes shall be afraide of the standart, sayeth the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and his fornace in Ierusalem.
Jeremiah 7:21Thus sayth the Lord of hostes, the God of Israel, Put your burnt offerings vnto your sacrifices, and eat the flesh.
Ezekiel 43:16And the altar shalbe twelue cubites long, and twelue broade, and fouresquare in the foure corners thereof.
Hosea 8:13They sacrifice flesh for ye sacrifices of mine offerings, and eate it: but the Lord accepteth them not: now will he remember their iniquitie, and visite their sinnes: they shall returne to Egypt.
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 →