Isaiah 3:2 (BSB)

the mighty man and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the soothsayer and the elder,

From Isaiah 3. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Isaiah 3:2

  • John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Isaiah 3:2: 2. The strong man, and the man of war He mentions other ends which contribute to the safety and good order either of nations or of cities. Of these he threatens that the Jews will be wholly deprived, so that they will neither have wisdom or bravery at battle, nor military forces abroad.
  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Isaiah 3:1-8: The prophet, in the close of the foregoing chapter, had given a necessary caution to all not to put confidence in man, or any creature; he had also given a general reason for that caution, taken from the frailty of human life and the vanity and weakness of human powers.
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Isaiah 3:2: The mighty man, and man of war,.... The meaning is either that these should die in war, as thousands of them did; or that men fit to be generals of armies should be removed by death before this time, so that they should have none to go out with their armies, and meet the enemy: the judge and the prophet; there should be none to...
  • Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Isaiah 3:2: Fulfilled (Kg2 24:14). prudent--the Hebrew often means a "soothsayer" (Deu 18:10-14); thus it will mean, the diviners, on whom they rely, shall in that day fail. It is found in a good sense (Pro 16:10), from which passage the Jews interpret it a king; "without" whom Israel long has been (Hos 3:4). ancient--old and experienced (Kg1 12:6-8).