Teks -- Isaiah 63:14 (NET)

63:14 Like an animal that goes down into a valley to graze, so the Spirit of the Lord granted them rest. In this way you guided your people, gaining for yourself an honored reputation.

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Wesley: Isa 63:14 - The valley

A laden beast goeth warily and gently down the hill.

Wesley: Isa 63:14 - Rest

Led them easily, that they should not be over - travelled, or fall down, through weariness; thus Jeremiah expresses it, Jer 31:2, and thus God gave them rest from their enemies, drowning them in the sea, and in their safe conduct, that they could not annoy or disturb them, leading them 'till he found them a place for resting; the word for leading, and resting, being much of a like notion, Zec 10:6, pointing at their several rests by the way, Num 10:33, or it may be read by way of interrogation, as all the foregoing words, and be the close of that enquiry, And where is the spirit, that caused then to rest? Or, he led them to Canaan the place of their rest.

JFB: Isa 63:14 - As a beast . . . rest

Image from a herd led "down" from the hills to a fertile and well-watered "valley" (Psa 23:2); so God's Spirit "caused Israel to rest" in the promised land after their weary wanderings.

JFB: Isa 63:14 - to make . . . name

(So Isa 63:12; 2Sa 7:23).

Clarke: Isa 63:13-14 - That led them through the deep - As a beast goeth down into the valley

That led them through the deep - As a beast goeth down into the valley - In both these verses there is an allusion to the Israelites going through the Red Sea, in the bottom of which they found no more inconvenience than a horse would in running in the desert, where there was neither stone nor mud; nor a beast in the valley, where all was plain and smooth.

Clarke: Isa 63:14

The Spirit of the Lord caused him to rest "The Spirit of Jehovah conducted them"- For תניחנו tenichennu , caused him to rest, the Septuagint have ὡδηγησεν αυτους, conducted them; they read תנחם tanchem . The Syriac, Chaldee, and Vulgate read תנחנו tanchennu , conducted him. Two MSS. have the word without the י yod in the middle.

Calvin: Isa 63:14 - As a beast into a plain // A glorious name

14.As a beast into a plain Here, instead of “desert,” he makes use of the word “plain;” and the same meaning is drawn from what he says, that “the people walked through the depths without stumbling, as horses are wont to do in the desert.” In a word, he informs them that the Red Sea was no obstacle to the people marching through the midst of the depths, as if they were walking on level ground. ¹⁷⁸

A glorious name This is in the same sense that he called it a little before “an everlasting name.” The people now argue with God, that if he once wished to obtain “a glorious name,” he must not now throw away all care about it; otherwise the remembrance of the benefits which he formerly bestowed on the fathers will be entirely blotted out.

TSK: Isa 63:14 - the Spirit // to make

the Spirit : Jos 22:4, Jos 23:1; Heb 4:8-11

to make : Isa 63:12; Num 14:21; 2Sa 7:23; 1Ch 29:13; Neh 9:5; Luk 2:14; Eph 1:6, Eph 1:12

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Poole: Isa 63:14 - As a beast goeth down into the valley // going down for going along // The Spirit of the Lord // caused him to rest // So didst thou lead

As a beast goeth down into the valley a laden beast goeth warily and gently down the hill: or, as a beast goeth down to the valley for grass, that being a mountainous country: or

going down for going along so the word is used Isa 38:8 ; noting the evenness of their passage; or alluding to their going down from the shore into that great channel (as the coming out of it is called a going up, Isa 63:11 ) now made through the sea, orderly, and composedly, not like the Gadarenes’ swine, through consternation, ready to break their necks for haste.

The Spirit of the Lord i.e. the Lord himself,

caused him to rest led them easily, that they should not be over-travelled, or fall down, or come to any injury through weariness; thus Jeremiah expresseth it, Jer 31:2 , and thus God gave them rest from their enemies, drowning of them in the sea, and in their safe conduct, that they could not annoy or disturb them, leading them till he found them a place for resting; the word for leading and resting being much of a like notion, Zec 10:6 ; pointing at their several rests by the way, Num 10:33 : or it may be read by way of interrogation, as all the foregoing words, and be the close of that inquiry, And where is the Spirit that caused them to rest? or he led them to Canaan, the place of their rest; so called Deu 12:9 Psa 95:11 .

So didst thou lead: the prophet here by an apostrophe doth only repeat the words in the name of the Jews that he had spake before, Isa 63:12 : q.d. As thou didst then, so mayst thou do again if thou pleasest.

PBC: Isa 63:14

See PB: Ps 78:17

Gill: Isa 63:14 - As a beast goeth down into the valley // the Spirit of the Lord caused him to rest // so didst thou lead thy people // to make thyself a glorious name

As a beast goeth down into the valley,.... Softly and gently, especially when laden; which may have some respect to the descent of the Israelites into the sea, into which they entered without any fear and dread, and without any hurry and precipitation, though Pharaoh's host was behind them; or rather, "as a beast goes along a valley", or "plain" ^c; with ease, and without any interruption, so passed the Israelites through the sea. Thus the Targum renders it,

"as a beast goes, or is led, in a plain;''

so the word is used in Isa 38:8, and elsewhere:

the Spirit of the Lord caused him to rest; or gently led him, that is, Israel; he walked on through the sea, with as much facility, and as little danger, as a beast walks on in a valley, or a horse in a plain. Some understand this of leading Israel through the wilderness, where often resting places were found for them, and at last they were brought to the land of rest, Canaan, and settled there:

so didst thou lead thy people; both through the sea, and through the wilderness, in a like easy, safe, and gentle manner:

to make thyself a glorious name; among the nations of the world, as he did by this amazing appearance of his for Israel; and it is hoped by those, whose words these are, he would do the like again, and get himself immortal glory.