Isaiah 37:32

32 "For out of Jerusalem will go forth a ¹remnant and out of Mount Zion survivors. The ²zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this."'

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Isaiah 37:32 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 37:32

For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant
The Targum is,

``the rest of the righteous;''

the same as before; who, when the city should be free from the enemy, would go out of it, and return to their former settlements, in the several parts of Judea; a type of those who went out of Jerusalem with the Gospel of Christ, and spread it not only in Judea, but in the Gentile world:

and they that escape out of Mount Zion;
the same persons, differently described; some of whom were in the city of Jerusalem, and others in the fort of Zion, but departed from hence when the siege was broke up. The Targum is,

``and the escaped of them that confirm the law out of Mount Zion;''

see ( Isaiah 2:3 ) :

the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this:
his concern for his own honour and glory, and his great love to his people, shall engage him to perform all that is here promised and foretold. The Targum is,

``by the word of the Lord of hosts this shall be done.''

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Isaiah 37:32 In-Context

30 "Then this shall be the sign for you: you will eat this year what grows of itself, in the second year what springs from the same, and in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

31 "The surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.

32 "For out of Jerusalem will go forth a remnant and out of Mount Zion survivors. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this."'

33 "Therefore, thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, 'He will not come to this city or shoot an arrow there; and he will not come before it with a shield, or throw up a siege ramp against it.

34 'By the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he will not come to this city,' declares the LORD .

Cross References 2

1. Isaiah 37:4
2. 2 Kings 19:31; Isaiah 9:7; Isaiah 59:17; Joel 2:18; Zechariah 1:14

Footnotes 1

[a]. Lit "those who escape"