Книга пророка Исаии, Глава 7, стих 20. Толкования стиха

Then the word predicted what would happen to every people in the land of the Jews during the prophesied days (for it had been said that he will bring these days on them): they will indeed be delivered over to the Egyptian flies, so that the most godly Josiah will be under the hand of the king of the Egyptians, and the bees of the Assyrians will prevail over the entire Jewish land, and they will occupy their deserts and the ravines and the caves and every tree. And they will settle there in leisure and be unafraid with absolute freedom from care. He then continues on to deliver a prediction of the overthrow of the ruler of these Assyrians and Chaldeans through the aforementioned statements. For indeed the Assyrians continued to be in power over Asia and the entirety of Egypt and Libya and of large portions 52 of the whole world for about one thousand three hundred years. And the dominion of these unconquerable people was great and did not stop until they had abolished or “besieged” everything in Jerusalem and set the temple of God “ablaze” and carried off the sacred vessels and all the ornaments in the temple to Babylon and dedicated them to their own idols. For not long after these things had been accomplished, the Medes did in fact clear out the rule of the Assyrians. And Cyrus, the first king of the Persians, freely gave liberty to the Jewish captives and allowed those who wished to make their return journey to the land of the Jews and rebuild the temple in Jerusalem. He gave back the ornaments and the priestly vessels that had been taken in antiquity, and he ordered that they be dedicated in the temple that was then being prepared.

But these things were accomplished in this manner in the following era; through Isaiah, the prophetic Spirit provided a prediction of what would occur. In the text at hand, he prophesies what will happen at the hand of the ruler of the Assyrians after the invasion, what the aforementioned bees from their land would do when they set foot on the land of the Jews. Therefore he says: On that day the Lord will shave with the great and hired razor of the king of the Assyrians, not only the head that formerly had long hair, before the Assyrians seized control over the empire, but even the hairs of the feet (clearly an anthropomorphism) and the beard. This is the right natural order for men. The prophetic Word called the cruel race of the enemies a razor hired by the Lord, and God says that he will shave the king of the Assyrians (clearly their every kingdom and dominion), so that he will look humble, unmanly, disorderly and misshapen. The Medes later received the same end at the mere nod of God when in judgment they were overtaken. The rule of the Assyrians was dissolved and the dominion of the Persians over the entirety of Asia was divided.

обреет. Сбривание волос было символом траура (Ис. 15:2).

бритвою. Т.е. силой оружия.

нанятою. Ахаз сокровищами приобрел союзника в лице Феглаффелласара, царя Ассирии, иначе говоря, сам нанял ассирийское войско, чтобы оно вторглось в эти земли (4 Цар. 16:8). В конечном итоге Господь возвысит Ассирию, "жезл гнева Моего" (Ис. 10:5).

Исаия предсказывает нечестивому Ахазу, обратившемуся за помощью к ассирийскому царю, будущее опустошение и притеснение иудеев от тех же ассирийцев.