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Isaiah 34:4

King James Version (KJV)

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And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling [fig] from the fig tree.

Isaiah 34:4 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Isaiah 34:4

Theological / Devotional

The host of heaven. That is, the sun, moon, and stars (see 2 Kings 21:3; 23:5; Jer. 8:2 ; 33:22; etc.). Instead of “all the host of heaven shall be dissolved,” Dead Sea scroll 1QIs reads, “The depths shall be split open, and all the host of heaven shall wither away.”

Dissolved. For comment on this expression see on Isa. 13:10, 13; 24:23; Heb. 1:10–14.

Rolled together. Reference is here made to the atmospheric heavens (see on 2 Peter 3:7, 10–12; Rev. 6:14; cf. Isa. 24:19, 20; Jer. 4:23, 28).

Fall down. See on Matt. 24:29; Rev. 6:13.

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