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.
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Gill's Exposition
And it shall come to pass in that day; that every place shall be,.... Barren and unfruitful, for want of men to till the ground:
where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings; which…
Barnes' Notes
The remainder of this chapter is a description of great desolation produced by the invasion of the Assyrians. “Where there were a thousand vines.” Where there was a valuable vineyard. In every place,…
After the comfortable promises made to Ahaz as a branch of the house of David, here follow terrible threatenings against him, as a degenerate branch of that house; for though the loving-kindness of…
The most costly vineyards, requiring the most sedulous cultivation, are overrun by thorns and thistles, cf. ch. Isa 5:6.
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