Isaiah 3:2
Man of might and man of war,—Judge and prophet And diviner and elder;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 9:1And, all Israel, registered themselves, and lo! they are written, in the Book of the Kings of Israel, and, Judah, was carried away captive to Babylon, for their faithlessness.
Isaiah 2:13And upon all cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up,—And upon all the oaks of Bashan;
Lamentations 5:12Princes, by their hand, have been hanged, The faces of elders, not honoured.
Ezekiel 9:5But unto these, said he in mine ears, Pass along through the city after him and smite,—let not your eye, shield, neither have ye pity:
Amos 2:3And I will cut off the judge out of her midst, and, all her rulers, will I slay with him, saith Yahweh.
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 →