Isaías 5:28

Sagradas Escrituras

Sus saetas amoladas, y todos sus arcos entesados; los cascos de sus caballos parecerán como de pedernal; y las ruedas de sus carros como torbellino.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Sus flechas están afiladas y todos sus arcos entesados; los cascos de sus caballos son como pedernal y las ruedas de sus carros como torbellino.

La Biblia Reina-Valera
Sus saetas amoladas, y todos sus arcos entesados; las u�as de sus caballos parecer�n como de pedernal, y las ruedas de sus carros como torbellino.

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Sus saetas afiladas, y todos sus arcos entesados; los cascos de sus caballos parecer�n como de pedernal, y las ruedas de sus carros como torbellino.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

arrows: Psalms 45:5, Psalms 120:4, Jeremiah 5:16, Ezekiel 21:9-11

their horses': Judges 5:22, Jeremiah 47:3, Micah 4:13, Nahum 2:3, Nahum 2:4, Nahum 3:2

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 4:13 - his chariots Jeremiah 25:32 - and a Jeremiah 50:14 - bend Jeremiah 50:42 - shall ride Ezekiel 26:11 - hoofs Daniel 7:4 - like Daniel 11:40 - like Revelation 9:17 - as the

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Whose arrows [are] sharp, and all their bows bent,.... Ready to shoot their arrows upon any occasion; and which being sharp, penetrated deep, and were deadly. This includes all kind of warlike instruments, with which they should come furnished, and ready prepared to do execution:

their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint; by those who rode upon them; who knowing how strong and firm they were, and that they were not worn out, nor hurt by the length of the way they came, would not spare to make haste upon them:

and their wheels like a whirlwind; that is, the wheels of their chariots, they used in battle, as Aben Ezra, Jarchi, and Kimchi, interpret it; and so the Septuagint and Arabic versions render it: this metaphor denotes both the swiftness with which they should come, and the noise and rattling they should make, and the power and force in bearing down all before them. The Targum is,

"and his wheels swift as a tempest.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Whose arrows are sharp - Bows and arrows were the common instruments of fighting at a distance. Arrows were, of course, made sharp, and usually pointed with iron, for the purpose of penetrating the shields or coats of mail which were used to guard against them.

And all their bows bent - All ready for battle.

Their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint - It is supposed that the ancients did not usually shoe their horses. Hence, a hard, solid hoof would add greatly to the value of a horse. The prophet here means, that their horses would be prepared for any fatigue, or any expedition; see a full description of horses and chariots in Bochart’s “Hieroz.” P. i. lib. ii. ch. viii. ix.

And their wheels like a whirlwind - That is, the wheels of their chariots shall be swift as the wind, and they shall raise a cloud of dust like a whirlwind. This comparison was very common, as it is now; see “Bochart.” See, also, a magnificent description of a war-horse in Job 39:19-25.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 5:28. Their horses' hoofs shall be counted like flint - "The hoofs of their horses shall be counted as adamant"] The shoeing of horses with iron plates nailed to the hoof is quite a modern practice, and was unknown to the ancients, as appears from the silence of the Greek and Roman writers, especially those that treat of horse medicine, who could not have passed over a matter so obvious and of such importance that now the whole science takes its name from it, being called by us farriery. The horseshoes of leather and iron which are mentioned; the silver and gold shoes with which Nero and Poppaea shod their mules, used occasionally to preserve the hoofs of delicate cattle, or for vanity, were of a very different kind; they enclosed the whole hoof as in a case, or as a shoe does a man's foot, and were bound or tied on. For this reason the strength, firmness and solidity of a horse's hoof was of much greater importance with them than with us, and was esteemed one of the first praises of a fine horse. Xenophon says that a good horse's hoof is hard, hollow, and sounds upon the ground like a cymbal. Hence the χαλκοποδες ιπποι, of Homer, and Virgil's solido graviter sonat ungula cornu. And Xenophon gives directions for hardening the horses' hoofs by making the pavement on which he stands in the stable with roundheaded stones. For want of this artificial defence to the foot which our horses have, Amos, Amos 6:12, speaks of it as a thing as much impracticable to make horses run upon a hard rock as to plough up the same rock with oxen: -

"Shall horses run upon a rock?

Shall one plough it up with oxen?"

These circumstances must be taken into consideration in order to give us a full notion of the propriety and force of the image by which the prophet sets forth the strength and excellence of the Babylonish cavalry, which made a great part of the strength of the Assyrian army. Xenop. Cyrop. lib. ii.

Like a whirlwind — כסופה cassuphah, like the stormy blast. Here sense and sound are well connected.