Welcome to BibleStudyMinistry.com, your online Bible Study supplement source. Today we have a chapter summary on Isaiah chapter 28. Before we get to the summary, let’s review the chapter below.
1 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
2 Behold, the Almighty hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.
3 The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
4 And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
5 In that day shall the Almighty of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,
6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way. The priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink. They err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
13 But the word of the Almighty 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.
14 Wherefore hear the word of the Almighty, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Almighty Creator, Behold, I lay in Siyoni for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation. He that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you. For morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it. And the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
21 For the Almighty shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work. And bring to pass his act, his strange act.
22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong. For I have heard from the Almighty Creator of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
24 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
26 For his Creator doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument. Neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin. But the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
28 Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.
29 This also cometh forth from the Almighty of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.
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Isaiah chapter 28 summary; the chapter unveils a narrative centered on the House of Akobe and its rebellious tendencies. It begins by pointing out the House’s arrogance and overconfidence in their wisdom and might. This was aimed at the drunkards of Efraim, half of the house of Akobe. It is rather 10/12th of the house that departed from Juda during the days of Rehoboam.
The House of Efraim is likened to drunkards who stumble in their conceit, dismissing the teachings of the Almighty. Their leaders are accused of making alliances and covenants that lack a solid foundation. This is much like a flimsy structure that will crumble under pressure.
They have made crucial errors in wine and strong drink, symbolic of lies and false doctrine. The priest and prophet are drunk with wine and have veer far out of the way of sound doctrine.
Like a drunk man throwing up, the priests have thrown up vomit and filthiness in the name of the Almighty. This posed a question by the Almighty.
Who will we teach knowledge to now?
Precept or principle upon principle, line upon line, here a little and there a little will be the method. Also, this will be done with stammering lips and different languages, because Akobe will be scattered into all kingdoms on the earth.
The chapter turns its attention to Jerusalem also. The men of Juda made a covenant with death and hell by making a refuge in falsehood. But the Almighty already made a way via the precious foundational Stone laid in Zion or Siyoni. Through the teachings of the Anointed One, the covenant with death will be disannulled.
The Almighty will rise up in Mount Paraza and do a strange work and act. The chapter emphasizes the consequences of pride and disobedience. The Almighty becomes a stone of offense and a stumbling block for the House of Akobe. Their misplaced trust in their own strength leads to their downfall.
The chapter concludes with a warning to mockers, take heed to the words of the prophet.
The chapter ultimately calls for the House of Akobe to heed the Almighty’s teachings and turn away from their pride. By embracing divine wisdom and acknowledging the Anointed One as their cornerstone, they can find true stability and redemption.
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Minister Koko
BSM
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