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Isaiah 7:23-25

King James Version (KJV)

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23. And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall [even] be for briers and thorns. 24. With arrows and with bows shall [men] come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns. 25. And [on] all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.

Isaiah 7:23-25 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Isaiah 7:23

Theological / Devotional

A thousand silverlings. That is, “pieces of silver,” or shekels (see on Gen. 20:16; cf. S. of Sol. 8:11). Apiece of silver for a vine was probably a high price, and these vines must therefore have been of the choicest stock. The meaning here is that the best vineyards would revert to wilderness for lack of care. When the “vineyard” of Israel was cursed it brought forth briers and thorns (Isa. 5:6).

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