Isa 5:1-4, Eze 15:2-8, 17:6, Mat 21:33-41 | TSK | STEP | Under the parable of a vineyard, God excuses his severe judgment. His judgments upon covetousness; upon lasciviousness; upon impiety; and upon injustice. The executioners of God's judgments. Now. well-beloved. touching. a very fruitful hill. Heb. the horn of the son of oil.

the choicest vine.{Sorek,} in Arabic, {sharik,} certainly denotes an excellent vine; but some with Bp. Lowth, retain it as a proper name. Sorek was a valley lying between Askelon and Gaza, so called from the excellence of its vines.

Jud 16:4

and built.

1:8; Mic 4:8

made. Heb. hewed. a winepress.

63:2,3; Ne 13:15; Re 14:18-20

he looked.

7; 1:2-4,21-23; De 32:6; Mt 21:34; Mr 11:13; 12:2; Lu 13:7; 20:10-18

1Co 9:7

wild grapes.

De 32:32,33; Ho 10:1

judge.

Ps 50:4-6; 51:4; Jer 2:4,5; Mic 6:2,3; Mt 21:40,41; Mr 12:9-12

Lu 20:15,16; Ro 2:5; 3:4

1:5; 2Ch 36:14-16; Jer 2:30,31; 6:29,30; Eze 24:13; Mt 23:37

Ac 7:51-60

Ezekiel 15:2-8

What.The vine is only noble and useful while producing fruit: for, when cut down, its wood is fit only for fuel. So Israel, having ceased to be fruitful, they are good for nothing, but, like a withered branch of a vine, to be burnt.

De 32:32,33; Ps 80:8-16; So 2:13,15; 6:11; 7:12; 8:11,12; Isa 5:1-7

Jer 2:21; Ho 10:1; Mt 21:33-41; Mr 12:1-9; Lu 20:9-16; Joh 15:1-6

among.

Isa 44:23; Mic 3:12; Zec 11:2

Jer 24:8; Mt 5:13; Mr 9:50; Lu 14:34,35

it is cast.

Ps 80:16; Isa 27:11; Joh 15:6; Heb 6:8

the fire.

Isa 1:31; Am 4:11; Mal 4:1; Mt 3:12; Heb 12:29

Is it meet. Heb. Will it prosper.

meet. Heb. made fit.

Jer 3:16; *marg:

2; 17:3-10; 20:47,48; Isa 5:1-6,24,25; Jer 4:7; 7:20; 21:7; 24:8-10

Jer 25:9-11,18; 44:21-27; Zec 1:6

I will set.

14:8; Le 17:10; 20:3-6; 26:17; Ps 34:16; Jer 21:10

they shall.

1Ki 19:17; Isa 24:18; Jer 48:43,44; Am 5:19; 9:1-4

and ye shall.

6:7; 7:4; 11:10; 20:38,42,44; Ps 9:16

I will.

6:14; 14:13-21; 33:29; Isa 6:11; 24:3-12; Jer 25:10,11; Zep 1:18

committed a trespass. Heb. trespassed a trespass.

2Ch 36:14-16

Ezekiel 17:6

it grew.

14; Pr 16:18,19

whose.The Jewish state had then no height of dominion; and Zedekiah was wholly dependent on Nebuchadnezzar.

Matthew 21:33-41

Hear.In this parable, in its primary sense, the householder denotes the Supreme Being; the family, the Jewish nation; the vineyard, Jerusalem; the fence, the Divine protection; the wine-press, the law and sacrificial rites; the tower, the temple; and the husbandmen, the priests and doctors of the law.

13:18; 1Ki 22:19; Isa 1:10; Jer 19:3; Ho 4:1

There.

Ps 80:8-16; So 8:11,12; Isa 5:1-4; Jer 2:21; Mr 12:1; Lu 20:9-18

Joh 15:1

husbandmen.

23:2; De 1:15-17; 16:18; 17:9-12; 33:8-10; Mal 2:4-9

went.

25:14,15; Mr 13:34; Lu 19:12

he sent.

2Ki 17:13,14-23; 2Ch 36:15,16; Ne 9:29,30; Jer 25:3-7; 35:15

Zec 1:3-6; 7:9-13; Mr 12:2-5; Lu 20:10-19

that.

So 8:11,12; Isa 5:4

5:12; 23:31-37; 1Ki 18:4,13; 19:2,10; 22:24; 2Ch 16:10; 24:21,22

2Ch 36:15,16; Ne 9:26; Jer 2:30; 25:3-7; 26:21-24; Lu 13:33,34

Ac 7:52; 1Th 2:15,16; Heb 11:36,37; Re 6:9

last.

3:17; Mr 12:6; Lu 20:13; Joh 1:18,34; 3:16,35,36; Heb 1:1,2

They.

Isa 5:4; Jer 36:3; Zep 3:7

This.

2:13-16; 26:3,4; 27:1,2; Ge 37:18-20; Ps 2:2-8; Mr 12:7,8; Lu 20:14

Joh 11:47-53; Ac 4:27,28; 5:24-28

caught.

26:50,57; Mr 14:46-53; Lu 22:52-54; Joh 18:12,24; Ac 2:23; 4:25-27

cast.

Heb 13:11-13

slew.

Ac 2:23; 3:14,15; 4:10; 5:30; 7:52; Jas 5:6

what.

Mr 12:9; Lu 20:15,16; Heb 10:29

they say.Our Lord here causes them to pass that sentence of destruction upon themselves which was literally executed about forty years afterwards by the Roman armies.

He will.

3:12; 22:6,7; 23:35-38; 24:21,22; Le 26:14-46; De 28:59-68

Ps 2:4,5,9; Isa 5:5-7; Da 9:26; Zec 11:8-10; 12:12; 13:8; 14:2,3

Mal 4:1-6; Lu 17:32-37; 19:41-44; 21:22-24; 1Th 2:16; Heb 2:3; 12:25

and will let out.

43; 8:11; Isa 49:5-7; 65:15; 66:19-21; Lu 13:28,29; 14:23,24; 21:24

Ac 13:46-48; 15:7; 18:6; 28:8; Ro 9:1-11:36; 15:9-18