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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 11:14 - 11:14
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With united forces they shall subdue their foes (Amo 9:12).
fly - as a bird of prey (Hab 1:8).
upon the shoulders - This expresses an attack made unexpectedly on one from behind. The image is the more apt, as the Hebrew for “shoulders” in Num 34:11 is used also of a maritime coast (“side of the sea”: Hebrew, “shoulder of the sea,” Margin). They shall make a sudden victorious descent upon their borders southwest of Judea.
them of the east - Hebrew, “children of the East,” the Arabs, who, always hostile, are not to be reduced under regular government, but are only to be despoiled (Jer 49:28, Jer 49:29).
lay ... hand upon - take possession of (Dan 11:42).
Edom - south of Judah, from the Dead Sea to the Red Sea; “Moab” - east of Jordan and the Dead Sea.
Ammon - east of Judea, north of Moab, between the Arnon and Jabbok.