King James Version
Isaiah 19:24 in the King James Version says “In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 19 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:”
Isaiah 19:24 · KJV
And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.
In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.
In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:
Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“In that day”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“shall Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“be the third”
H7992third; feminine a third (part); by extension, a third (day, year or time); specifically, a third-story cell)
“and with Assyria”
H804ashshur, the second son of shem; also his descendants and the country occupied by them (i.e., assyria), its region and its empire
“in the midst”
H7130properly, the nearest part, i.e., the center, whether literal, figurative or adverbial (especially with preposition)
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