isaiah 28:13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. - Free Bible Online

isaiah 28:13 So the word of the LORD to them will be, "Order on order, order on order, Line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there," That they may go and stumble backward, be broken, snared, and taken captive.


      13. But--rather, "Therefore," namely, because "they would not hear" (Isa 28:12).
      that they might go--the designed result to those who, from a defect of the will, so far from profiting by God's mode of instructing, "precept upon precept," &c., made it into a stumbling-block (Ho 6:5; 8:12; Mt 13:14).
      go, and fall--image appropriately from "drunkards" (Isa 28:7, 8, which they were) who in trying to "go forward fall backward."

JFB.


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