17One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.
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The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-17)Here, I. The preface is very awful. The prophet must not only preach this, but he must write it (Isa. 30:8), write it in a table , to be hung up and exposed to public view; he must carefully note it , not in loose papers which might be lost or torn, but in a book , to be preserved for posterity, in perpetuam rei memoriam—for a standing testimony against this wicked generation; let it remain not on…
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