Isaiah 3:4

And I will appoint children to bee their princes, and babes shall rule ouer them.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

In Context

3The captaine of fiftie, and the honourable, and the counseller, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent man.

5The people shalbe oppressed one of another, and euery one by his neighbour: the children shall presume against the ancient, and the vile against the honourable.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 33:1Manasseh was twelue yeere olde, when he beganne to reigne, and he reigned fiue and fiftie yeere in Ierusalem:

2 Chronicles 36:2Iehoahaz was three and twentie yeere old when he began to reigne, and he reigned three moneths in Ierusalem.

2 Chronicles 36:9Iehoiachin was eight yeere olde when he beganne to reigne, and he reigned three moneths and ten dayes in Ierusalem, and did euill in the sight of the Lord.

Ecclesiastes 10:16Woe to thee, O lande, when thy King is a childe, and thy princes eate in the morning.

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 →

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