the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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Isaiah 11:3
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And He will delight in the fear of Yahweh,And He will not judge by what His eyes see,Nor render a decision by what His ears hear;
And He will delight in the fear of the LORD, And He will not judge by what His eyes see, Nor make a decision by what His ears hear;
And shall make hym of deepe iudgement in the feare of God: For he shall not geue sentence after the thing that shalbe brought before his eyes, neither reproue after the hearing of his eares:
And his delight will be in the fear of Jehovah; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears;
His delight is in the fear of the LORD, And He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, Nor decide by the hearing of His ears;
And He is made to breathe in the fear of Jehovah. But He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, nor decide by the hearing of His ears.
He will find joy in obeying the Lord . This king will not judge people by the way things look. He will not judge by listening to rumors.
His delight shall be in the fear of Yahweh; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the hearing of his ears;
And shal make him of quicke vnderstanding in the feare of the Lord, and he shall not iudge after the sight of his eyes, neither reproue after the hearing of his eares.
And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord : and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
and shal make him feruent in the feare of God. For he shal not geue sentece, after the thinge yt shal be brought before his eies, nether reproue a matter at the first hearinge:
And He will delight in the fear of the LORD, And He will not judge by what His eyes see, Nor make decisions by what His ears hear;
And his delight shall be in the fear of Jehovah; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the hearing of his ears;
And he will not be guided in his judging by what he sees, or give decisions by the hearing of his ears:
And will make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he will not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
He will take delight in obeying the Lord . He will not judge by mere appearances, or make decisions on the basis of hearsay.
His greatest joy will be to obey the Lord . This king won't judge by appearances or listen to rumors.
he will be inspired by fearing Adonai . He will not judge by what his eyes see or decide by what his ears hear,
And shall make him prudent in the feare of the Lord: for he shall not iudge after the sight of his eies, neither reproue by ye hearing of his eares.
And shall shine forth in the reverence of the LORD; and he shall not judge after that which his eyes see, neither reprove after that which his ears hear;
His delight shall be in the fear of the LORD; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the hearing of his ears;
And his delight shall be in the fear of the LORD; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the hearing of his ears;
He will delight in obeying the Lord . He will not judge by appearance nor make a decision based on hearsay.
He will be glad in the fear of the Lord. He will not judge by what His eyes see, or decide by what His ears hear.
the spirit of the fear of God. He shall not judge according to appearance, nor reprove according to report:
And his delight shall be in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
And He will delight in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by what His eyes see, and He will not decide by what His ears hear,
His delight shall be in the fear of the Lord . He shall not judge by what his eyes see, or decide by what his ears hear;
So will he find fragrance, in the reverence of Yahweh, And not, by the sight of his eyes, will he judge, Nor by the hearing of his ears, will he decide;
And he shall be filled with the spirit of the fear of the Lord, He shall not judge according to the sight of the eyes, nor reprove according to the hearing of the ears.
And his breath is in the fear of Yahweh. And he shall judge not by his eyesight, and he shall rebuke not by what he hears with his ears.
And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord . He shall not judge by what his eyes see, or decide disputes by what his ears hear,
And He will delight in the fear of the LORD, And He will not judge by what His eyes see, Nor make decisions by what His ears hear;
This king will be glad to obey the Lord . He will not judge by the way things look or decide by what he hears.
and find pleasure in obeying him. He will not judge by appearance or hearsay;
His delight will be in the fear of the Lord . He will not judge by what He sees with His eyes, He will not execute justice by what He hears with His ears,
and the spirit of the drede of the Lord schal fille him. He schal deme not bi the siyt of iyen, nether he schal repreue bi the heryng of eeris;
And his delight shall be in the fear of the LORD. He shall not judge by what his eyes see, or decide by what his ears hear;
To refresh him in the fear of Jehovah, And by the sight of his eyes he judgeth not, Nor by the hearing of his ears decideth.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
shall make him: Isaiah 33:6, Proverbs 2:5, Proverbs 2:9, Luke 2:52
understanding: Heb. scent, or, smell, Job 12:11, Job 34:3, Philippians 1:9, Philippians 1:10, Hebrews 5:14
and he shall not: 1 Samuel 16:7, 2 Samuel 14:17, 1 Kings 3:9, 1 Kings 3:28, John 7:24, John 8:15, John 8:16, 1 Corinthians 2:13-15, 1 Corinthians 4:3-5
Reciprocal: Leviticus 13:6 - pronounce Deuteronomy 13:14 - General 2 Samuel 14:8 - I will give 2 Chronicles 19:9 - in the fear Psalms 50:4 - judge Psalms 58:1 - Do Psalms 72:2 - He shall Psalms 96:10 - judge Psalms 99:4 - strength Psalms 110:6 - judge Isaiah 2:4 - And he Isaiah 9:7 - to establish it Isaiah 32:15 - the spirit Isaiah 42:3 - he shall Isaiah 52:13 - my servant Ezekiel 45:8 - and my princes Ezekiel 46:18 - the prince Micah 3:8 - I am Micah 4:3 - he shall judge Zechariah 8:16 - execute the judgment of truth and peace John 5:30 - I judge Acts 1:2 - through Acts 2:3 - sat Acts 9:31 - and walking Romans 16:19 - yet 1 Corinthians 12:8 - is given 1 Corinthians 14:20 - not James 3:13 - endued James 3:17 - the wisdom Revelation 19:11 - and in
Cross-References
And they said, Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top [may reach] to heaven, and let us make us a name; or else we will be scattered abroad on the face of the whole earth.
And Yahweh said, Look, they are one people, and they all have one language; and this is what they begin to do: and now nothing will be withheld from them, which they purpose to do.
Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu:
Now the valley of Siddim was full of slime pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and those that remained fled to the mountain.
and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in bricks, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, wherein they made them serve with rigor.
And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
They encourage themselves in an evil purpose; They commune of laying snares secretly; They say, Who will see them?
If they say, Come with us, Let us lay in wait for blood; Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord,.... Or "cause him to smell the fear of the Lord" w; that is, to discern in whom it was: this is one effect of the Spirit's resting upon him, and particularly as the spirit of understanding, and of the fear of the Lord, whereby he has a quick and sharp discerning of it; not merely of the grace of fear, so as to know what that is, and what the exercise of it; or so as to make it the rule of his actions, though all this is true; but so as to discern where and in whom it was, and was not; he could distinguish between him that feared God and him that feared him not; he knew Nathanael to be an Israelite indeed, in whom there was no guile, John 1:47 and the Scribes and Pharisees to be hypocrites, Matthew 22:18. As the Jews x understand this passage of the Messiah, and of his quick smell, as the word used signifies, or of his discerning of good and bad men, they make this to be a rule of judging the Messiah by; and accordingly made use of it with one that set up himself for the Messiah, and took the name of Barcochab, the son of a star, referring to Numbers 24:17 and tried him whether he could discern a good man from a bad man; and because he could not, they rejected him as a false Messiah, and called him Barcoziba, the son of a lie y: compare with this Luke 7:39 where it may be seen the same notion obtained among the Jews in Christ's time:
and, he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes; or according to the outward appearance, the external guise of sanctity and religion men might put on; as the Scribes and Pharisees were outwardly righteous before men, but not to Christ, who knew their hearts; they seemed to be somewhat to others, but nothing to him, because he judged not by appearances to the eyes:
neither reprove after the hearing of his ears; he needed no testimony of men, for he knew what was in men; nor did he regard the words of men, the boastings of a Pharisee, any more than his outward actions; nor would he reprove or condemn, nor will he, upon a human testimony.
w והריחו ביראת יהוה "et faciet odorari eum timorem Jehovae", Munster, Vatablus; "et odorabitur timorem Jehovae", Cocceius. x Zohar in Exod. fol. 31. 3. & 86. 1. Tzeror Hammor, fol. 62. 3. y T. Bab. Sanhedrin. fol. 93. 2.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And shall make him of quick understanding - (והריחו vahărı̂ychô) The Septuagint renders this, ‘And the spirit of the fear of God shall fill him.’ The Chaldee, ‘And the Lord shall draw him near to him in his fear.’ The Syriac, ‘And he shall be resplendent (like the sun, or the stars) in the fear of the Lord.’ The Hebrew word used here is probably derived from ריח rêyach, used only in Hiphil, “to smell;” and is kindred with רוח rûach, “wind, breath,” for fragrant substances “breathe out” an odor. - “Gesenius.” It then denotes “to take delight in smelling” Exodus 30:38; Leviticus 26:31; and thence, by an easy transition, to take delight in anything; Amos 5:21. The reason is, that the objects of smell are usually pleasant and agreeable; and especially such as were the aromatics used in public worship. The sense here is, probably, that he would take pleasure in the fear of Yahweh, that is, in piety, and in devoting himself to his service. The interpretation given in our translation, is that given by many expositors; though that above suggested is probably the correct one. The word is used to denote “pleasure” in a thing; it is not used anywhere, it is believed, to denote a quick understanding; compare Exodus 5:21; Philippians 4:18. The idea which is conveyed by our translators is, probably, derived from “the discernment of the quality” of objects by an acute sense of smell, and hence, they interpreted the word to denote an acute discrimination of any objects.
And he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes - He sha 1 not judge of things by their external appearance. or with partiality. This is language which is applicable to a magistrate, and is spoken of the Messiah as the descendant of David, and as sitting on his throne as a ruler of his people. He who judges ‘after the sight of his eyes,’ does it according to external appearances, showing favor to rank, to the rich, and the great; or judging as things “appear” without a close and careful inquiry into their true nature and bearings; compare John 7:24 : ‘Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment;’ Deuteronomy 1:16-17.
Neither reprove - יוכיח yôkiyach. This word means “to show, to prove; to correct, reprove, convince; to reproach, or censure; to punish; to judge, decide, etc.” Here it is evidently used as synonymous with ‘shall he judge’ in the former part of the parallelism - retaining the idea of a just judge, who decides not according to the hearing of the ears, but according to justice.
After the hearing of his ears - Not by plausible statements, and ingenious defenses, but by weighing evidence, and by an impartial examination of the true merits of the case. This belonged to the Lord Jesus, because,
(1) He was never influenced by any undue regard to rank, honor, or office. His opinions were always impartial; his judgments without bias or favoritism.
(2) He was able to discern the true merits of every case. He knew what was in man, saw the true state of the heart, and, therefore, was not deceived or imposed upon as human judges are; see John 2:24-25; compare Revelation 2:28; John 6:64.
