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Isaiah 13

Isa. 13:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Behold, I will stir up
`uwr (Hebrew #5782)
to wake (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: (a- )wake(-n, up), lift up (self), X master, raise (up), stir up (self).
Pronounce: oor
Origin: a primitive root (rather identical with 5783 through the idea of opening the eyes)
thed Medes
Maday (Hebrew #4074)
Madai, a country of central Asia
KJV usage: Madai, Medes, Media.
Pronounce: maw-dah'-ee
Origin: of foreign derivation
against them, which shall not regard
chashab (Hebrew #2803)
properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (gen.) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute
KJV usage: (make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon(-ing be made), regard, think.
Pronounce: khaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
silver
keceph (Hebrew #3701)
silver (from its pale color); by implication, money
KJV usage: money, price, silver(-ling).
Pronounce: keh'-sef
Origin: from 3700
; and as for gold
zahab (Hebrew #2091)
gold, figuratively, something gold-colored (i.e. yellow), as oil, a clear sky
KJV usage: gold(-en), fair weather.
Pronounce: zaw-hawb'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to shimmer
, they shall not delight
chaphets (Hebrew #2654)
properly, to incline to; by implication (literally but rarely) to bend; figuratively, to be pleased with, desire
KJV usage: X any at all, (have, take) delight, desire, favour, like, move, be (well) pleased, have pleasure, will, would.
Pronounce: khaw-fates'
Origin: a primitive root
in it.
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Dan. 5:28,31• 28PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
 31And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old. (Dan. 5:28,31)

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Gold,
Medes; Media,
Silver

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Ministry on This Verse

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I will.
Isa. 13:3‑5• 3I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
 4The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
 5They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the Lord, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. (Isa. 13:3‑5)
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Isa. 21:2• 2A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. (Isa. 21:2)
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Isa. 41:25• 25I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay. (Isa. 41:25)
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Jer. 50:9• 9For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain. (Jer. 50:9)
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Jer. 51:11,27‑28• 11Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the Lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple.
 27Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.
 28Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion. (Jer. 51:11,27‑28)
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Dan. 5:28‑31• 28PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
 29Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
 30In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
 31And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old. (Dan. 5:28‑31)
shall not regard.
Prov. 6:34‑35• 34For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
 35He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts. (Prov. 6:34‑35)
• In verse 17 the prophecy does descend to a judgment more immediate, which was executed by the Medes, as the book of Daniel records. It is in this connection that the statement is made that the destruction of Babylon should be complete and irremediable. (“Isaiah 13” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who do not regard silver, and as for gold, they have no delight in it.