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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 11:13 - 11:13
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envy ... of Ephraim ... Judah - which began as early as the time (Jdg 8:1; Jdg 12:1, etc.). Joshua had sprung from, and resided among the Ephraimites (Num 13:9; Jos 19:50); the sanctuary was with them for a time (Jos 18:1). The jealousy increased subsequently (2Sa 2:8, etc.; 2Sa 19:41; 2Sa 20:2; 2Sa 3:10); and even before David’s time (1Sa 11:8; 1Sa 15:4), they had appropriated to themselves the national name Israel. It ended in disruption (1Ki 11:26, etc.; 1Ki 12:1-33; compare 2Ki 14:9; Psa 78:56-71).
adversaries of Judah - rather, “the adversaries from Judah”; those of Judah hostile to the Ephraimites [Maurer]. The parallelism “the envy of Ephraim,” namely, against Judah, requires this, as also what follows; namely, “Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim” (Eze 37:15, Eze 37:17, Eze 37:19).