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A Three-Year Sign
A major point of discussion among scholars is whether Isaiah walked partially naked for three full years. Most commentators, citing Hebrew grammar and logic, suggest this is unlikely. Instead, they argue that his act was a 'three-year sign'—a symbolic prophecy indicating that a three-year period of calamity and captivity was coming upon Egypt and Ethiopia.
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Albert Barnes
On Isaiah 20:3
18th Century
Theologian
Like as - That is, as Isaiah has gone stripped of his special garment as a prophet, so shall the Egyptians and Ethiopians be stripped of all…
Charles Ellicott
On Isaiah 20:3
19th Century
Bishop
For a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia. —Apparently Isaiah prophesied in act, but in silence, and did not unf…
John Calvin
On Isaiah 20:3
16th Century
Theologian
Three years. Why for such a period? Because that was the time granted to the Egyptians and Ethiopians, during which the Lord gave them a t…
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John Gill
On Isaiah 20:3
17th Century
Pastor
And the Lord said
Here follows the explanation of the sign, and the accommodation of it to the thing signified by it…
Matthew Henry
On Isaiah 20:1–6
17th Century
Minister
The invasion and conquest of Egypt and Ethiopia.
Isaiah was a sign to the people by his unusual dress when he walked about. He commonly wore…