English Standard Version
Isaiah 28:26
26For he is rightly instructed; his God teaches him.
Isaiah 28:26 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
- New International Version (NIV)His God instructs him and teaches him the right way.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For He instructs him in right judgment, His God teaches him.
- New Living Translation (NLT)The farmer knows just what to do, for God has given him understanding.
Context of Isaiah 28:26
24Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? Does he continually open and harrow his ground? 25When he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter dill, sow cumin, and put in wheat in rows and barley in its proper place, and emmer as the border? For he is rightly instructed; his God teaches him. 27Dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a cart wheel rolled over cumin, but dill is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod. 28Does one crush grain for bread? No, he does not thresh it forever; when he drives his cart wheel over it with his horses, he does not crush it.
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וְיִסְּר֥וֹ לַמִּשְׁפָּ֖ט אֱלֹהָ֥יו יוֹרֶֽנּוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Isaiah 28:26
- Exodus 28:3You shall speak to all the skillful, whom I have filled with a spirit of skill, that they make Aaron's garments to consecrate him for my priesthood.
- Exodus 31:3and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship,
- Exodus 36:2And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whose mind the Lord had put skill, everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to do the work.
- Job 35:11who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?'
- Job 39:17because God has made her forget wisdom and given her no share in understanding.
- Psalms 144:1Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle;
- Daniel 1:17As for these four youths, God gave them learning and skill in all literature and wisdom, and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
- James 1:17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
Commentaries on Isaiah 28:26
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 26For his God doth instruct him - All nations have agreed in attributing agriculture, the most useful and the most necessary of all sciences, to the invention and to the suggestions of their deities. "The Most High hath ordained husbandry, "saith the son of Sirach, Ecclus. 7:15. Namque Ceres fertur fruges, Liberque liquoris Vitigeni laticem mortalibus instituisse. Lucretius, 5:14. "Ceres has taught mortals how to produce fruits; and Bacchus has taught them…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 26For his God doth instruct him - Margin, He bindeth it in such sort as his God doth teach him.‘ The more correct idea is conveyed in the text. The word יסרו yiserô properly means, he instructs, admonishes, or teaches him. The idea that skill in agriculture is communicated by God is not one that is discordant to reason, or to the general teachings of the Bible. Thus the achitectural and mechanical skill of Bezaleel and Aholiab, by which they were enabled…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 23-29Verses 23-29 The husbandman applies to his calling with pains and prudence, in all the works of it according to their nature. Thus the Lord, who has given men this wisdom, is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in his working. As the occasion requires, he threatens, corrects, spares, shows mercy, or executes vengeance. Afflictions are God's threshing instruments, to loosen us from the world, to part between us and our chaff, and to prepare us for use. God…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 24-29A farmer knows that there are right and wrong ways to do things, but the leaders of Judah were not that intelligent.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2626. to discretion--in the due rules of husbandry; God first taught it to man (Ge 3:23).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 28
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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