Isaiah 3:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,

Isaiah 3:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 24:14-16
And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land. …
Isaiah 9:14-15
Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. …
Amos 2:3
And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.
Ezekiel 9:5
And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:
Lamentations 5:12-14
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. …

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Commentary

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

(vv. 1-8)

The prophet, in the close of the foregoing chapter, had given a necessary caution to all not to put confidence in man, or any creature; he had also given a general reason for that caution, taken from the frailty of human life and the vanity and weakness of human powers. Here he gives a particular reason for it—God was now about to ruin all their creature-confidences, so that they should meet with…

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

(vv. 2)

2. Fulfilled (2Ki 24:14). prudent--the Hebrew often means a “soothsayer” (De 18:10-14); thus it will mean, the diviners, on whom they rely, shall in that day fail. It is found in a good sense (Pr 16:10), from which passage the Jews interpret it a king; “without” whom Israel long has been (Ho 3:4). ancient--old and experienced (1Ki 12:6-8).