Isaiah 20:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

Isaiah 20:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 30:3
Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
Isaiah 30:5
They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
Jeremiah 17:5
Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
1 Corinthians 3:21
Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;
Ezekiel 29:6-7
And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. …

Topics

Confidence Cush Cushan Egypt Egyptians Ethiopia Israel Pestilence

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

God here, as King of nations, brings a sore calamity upon Egypt and Ethiopia, but, as King of saints, brings good to his people out of it. Observe, I. The date of this prophecy. It was in the year that Ashdod, a strong city of the Philistines (but which some think was lately recovered from them by Hezekiah, when he smote the Philistines even unto Gaza, 2 Kgs. 18:8), was besieged and taken by an ar…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. they--the Philistine allies of Egypt who trusted in it for help against Assyria. A warning to the party among the Jews, who, though Judah was then the subordinate ally of Assyria, were looking to Egypt as a preferable ally (Is 30:7). Ethiopia was their “expectation”; for Palestine had not yet obtained, but hoped for alliance with it. Egypt was their “glory,” that is, boast (Is 13:19); for the a…