Isaias 4:1

Filipino Cebuano Bible

1 Ug ang pito ka babaye mopugong sa usa ka lalake niadtong adlawa, nga magaingon: Magakaon kami sa among kaugalingong tinapay, ug magasul-ob sa among kaugalingong bisti: hinganli lamang kami sa imong ngalan; kuhaon mo kanamo ang among kaulawan.

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And in: Isaiah 2:11, Isaiah 2:17, Isaiah 10:20, Isaiah 17:7, Luke 21:22

seven: Isaiah 3:25, Isaiah 3:26, Isaiah 13:12

We will eat: 2 Thessalonians 3:12

let us be called by thy name: Heb. let thy name be called upon us

to take away: or, take thou away

reproach: Genesis 30:23, 1 Samuel 1:6, Luke 1:25

Reciprocal: Genesis 19:31 - to come Genesis 31:7 - ten times 2 Samuel 6:23 - Michal Job 19:5 - plead Psalms 78:63 - maidens Isaiah 3:6 - a man Jeremiah 9:20 - hear Jeremiah 15:8 - widows Ezekiel 38:14 - in that Zechariah 8:23 - take

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man,.... Not in the days of Ahaz, when Pekah, son of Remaliah, slew in Judah a hundred and twenty thousand men in one day, 2 Chronicles 28:6 as Kimchi thinks; for though there was then such a destruction of men, yet at the same time two hundred thousand women, with sons and daughters, were carried captive by the Israelites, 2 Chronicles 28:8 but in the days of Vespasian and Titus, and in the time of their wars with the Jews; in which were made such slaughters of men, that there were not enough left for every woman to have a husband; and therefore "seven", or a great many, sue to one man to marry them, contrary to their natural bashfulness. It is a tradition of the Jews, mentioned both by Jarchi and Kimchi, that Nebuchadnezzar ordered his army, that none of them should marry another man's wife; wherefore every woman sought to get a husband; but the time of this prophecy does not agree with it:

saying, we will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel; which used to be provided for wives by their husbands, and that according to law, Exodus 21:10 but rather than be without a husband, they promise, in order to engage him to marry them, to provide food and raiment for themselves, by their own labour. The Arabic version adds,

"neither in anything will we be troublesome:''

only let us be called by thy name; let us be married to thee, let us become thy wives; for upon marriage the woman was called by her husband's name:

to take away our reproach: of being unmarried, and having no offspring: or it may be rendered in the imperative, "take away our reproach" l; so the Targum, Septuagint, and Oriental versions. The words may be accommodated in a spiritual sense to some professors of religion, who lay hold on Christ in a professional way, but spend their money for that which is not bread, and live upon their own duties and services, and not on Christ, and wear their own rags of righteousness, and not his robe; only they desire to be called by the name of Christians, to take away the reproach of being reckoned Pagans or infidels.

l אסף חרפתנו "aufer probrum nostrum", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "aufer ignominiam nostram", Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In that day - The time of calamity referred to in the close of the previous chapter. This is a continuation of that prophecy, and there was no reason why these six verses should have been made a separate chapter. That the passage refers to the Messiah, is apparent from what has been stated in the note at the commencement of the prophecy Isaiah 2:1-4, and from the expressions which occur in the chapter itself; see the notes at Isaiah 4:2, Isaiah 4:5-6.

Seven women - The number “seven” is used often to denote a “large” though “indefinite” number; Leviticus 26:28; Proverbs 24:16; Zechariah 3:9. It means that so great should be the calamity, so many “men” would fall in battle, that many women would, contrary to their natural modesty, become suitors to a single man, to obtain him as a husband and protector.

Shall take hold - Shall apply to. The expression, ‘shall take hold,’ denotes the “earnestness” of their application.

We will eat our own bread ... - We do not ask this in order to be maintained. We will forego that which the law Exodus 21:10 enjoins as the duty of the husband in case he has more than one wife.

Only let us be called by thy name - Let us be regarded as “thy wives.” The wife then, as now, assumed the name of the husband. A remarkably similar expression occurs in Lucan (B. ii. 342). Marcia there presents a similar request to Cato:

Da tantum nomen inane

Connubii; liceat tumulo scripsisse, Catonis Marcia.

‘Indulge me only with the empty title of wife.

Let there only be inscribed on my tomb, “Marcia, wife of Cato.”’

To take away my reproach - The reproach of being unmarried; compare Genesis 30:23; 1 Samuel 1:6.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER IV

The havoc occasioned by war, and those other calamities which

the prophet had been describing in the preceding chapter, are

represented as so terribly great that seven women should be

left to one man, 1.

Great blessedness of the remnant that shall be accounted worthy

to escape these judgments, 2-4.

The privileges of the Gospel set forth by allusions to the

glory and pomp of the Mosaic dispensation, 5, 6.

NOTES ON CHAP. IV

Verse Isaiah 4:1. And seven women — The division of the chapters has interrupted the prophet's discourse, and broken it off almost in the midst of the sentence. "The numbers slain in battle shall be so great, that seven women shall be left to one man." The prophet has described the greatness of this distress by images and adjuncts the most expressive and forcible. The young women, contrary to their natural modesty, shall become suitors to the men: they will take hold of them, and use the most pressing importunity to be married. In spite of the natural suggestions of jealousy, they will be content with a share only of the rights of marriage in common with several others; and that on hard conditions, renouncing the legal demands of the wife on the husband, (see Exodus 21:10,) and begging only the name and credit of wedlock, and to be freed from the reproach of celibacy. See Isaiah 54:4-5. Like Marcia, on a different occasion, and in other circumstances: -

Da tantum nomen inane

Connubii: liceat tumulo scripsisse, Catonis Marcia.

LUCAN, ii. 342.

"This happened," says Kimchi, "in the days of Ahaz, when Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judea one hundred and twenty thousand men in one day; see 2 Chronicles 28:6. The widows which were left were so numerous that the prophet said, 'They are multiplied beyond the sand of the sea,'" Jeremiah 15:8.

In that day — These words are omitted in the Septuagint, and MSS.