Isaiah 35

Notes on the verses

Chap. XXXV. Ver. 7. The parched ground.—Lowth, “The glowing sand.” —In the habitation of dragons (or serpents)—“* shall spring forth grass,” &c. Ver. 8. And way.—Sixteen MSS. omit these words, and Lowth thinks they were repeated by an error of the scribes.—Wayfaring men,….. shall not err therein.—Bishop Warburton says “Take a plain man with an honest heart, give him his Bible, and make him conversant in it, and I will engage for him that he will never be at a loss to know how to act agreeably to his duty, in every circumstance of life. Yet give this man a good English translation of Aristotle’s Ethics, one of the most complete works for method in its kind, and by the time he has got to the end of it, I dare say he will not understand one word he has been reading.”

Ver. 9. It shall be for those.—Lowth, “He (God) shall be with them, walking in the way, and the foolish shall not err therein.” Ver. 10. And everlasting joy upon their heads.—Lowth, “And perpetual gladness shall crown their heads.” (Isaiah 36)As many of Isaiah’s predictions related to the events here recorded; it was proper that the history contained in this and the following chapters should be inserted: but, as it has before been fully considered, it will not be necessary to add more than a few hints in this place. “* We may probably conjecture, that this was part of that history of Hezekiah’s reign, which Isaiah wrote, as we read (2 Chronicles 32:32).” Lowth.—T. Scott.; Ver. 2. Three verses found in Kings, are here omitted.

Hezekiah on this first invasion of the land, submitted to the invader, and gave Sennacherib all his