20:1 In the year that a Tartan came to b Ashdod, (when c
Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against
Ashdod, and took it;
(a) Who was captain of Sennacherib, (2Ki 18:17).
(b) A city of the Philistines.
(c) The Hebrews write that Sennacherib was so called.
20:2 At the same time spoke the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz,
saying, Go and loose the d sackcloth from off thy loins,
and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking
naked and barefoot.
(d) Which signifies that the prophet lamented the misery
that he saw prepared before the three years that he
went naked and barefooted.
20:5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of e Cush their
expectation, and of Egypt their f glory.
(e) In whose aid they trusted.
(f) Of whom they boasted and gloried.
20:6 And the inhabitant of this g isle shall say in that day,
Behold, such [is] our expectation, where we fled for help
to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we
escape?
(g) Meaning Judea which was encompassed by their enemies as
an isle with waters.
