Isaiah 29:1
Alas for Ariel, Ariel, The city against which, David encamped,—Add ye a year to a year. Let the festivals, come round;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 then David dwelt in the citadel, and called it, The City of David,—and David built round about, from Millo and inwards.
Isaiah 1:14Your new moons and your appointed feasts, my soul, hateth,—They have become unto me a burden I am too weary to bear:
Isaiah 31:9And his own Cliff, through terror, shall he pass by, And his princes shall be dismayed at an ensign,—Declareth Yahweh. Who hath a flame in Zion, And hath a furnace in Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 7:21Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts God of Israel,—Your ascending-offerings, add ye unto your peace-offerings and eat ye flesh.
Ezekiel 43:16And the hearth shall be twelve cubits in length, by twelve in breadth—square in the four sides thereof.
Hosea 8:13My sacrificial gifts, have they been sacrificing as [common] flesh, and have eaten, Yahweh, hath not accepted them,—Now, will he call to mind their iniquity, that he may punish their sin, they, to Egypt, will return.
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 →