Isaiah 49:24 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁴Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?

Isaiah 49:24 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 11:21-22
When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace: …
Psalms 124:6-7
Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth. …
Matthew 12:29
Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.
Ezekiel 37:3
And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.
Isaiah 42:22
But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.

Topics

Jesus, the Christ

Commentary

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

(vv. 24-26)

Here is, I. An objection started against the promise of the Jews’ release out of their captivity in Babylon, suggesting that it was a thing not to be expected; for (Isa. 49:24) they were a prey in the hand of the mighty, of such as were then the greatest potentates on earth, and therefore it was not likely they should be rescued by force. Yet that was not all: they were lawful captives; by the law…

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

(vv. 24)

24. the prey--Israel, long a prey to mighty Gentile nations, whose oppression of her shall reach its highest point under Antichrist (Da 11:36, 37, 41, 45). lawful captive--the Jews justly consigned for their sins (Is 50:1) as captives to the foe. Secondarily, Satan and Death are “the mighty” conquerors of man, upon whom his sin give them their “lawful” claim. Christ answers that claim for the sinn…