Isaiah 2:7

“Their land also is full of silver and gold, &c.] Procured by pardons, indulgences, masses, praying souls out of purgatory, tithes, annates, Peter’s pence, &c. neither [is there any] end of their treasures; laid up in the pope’s coffers, in their churches, monasteries, and convents: their land is also full of horses, neither [is there any] end of their chariots; for the cardinals, archbishops, bishops, &c. to ride on and in. Horses and chariots are mentioned among the wares and merchandise of Rome, in (<661813>Revelation 18:13).”

“gold--forbidden to be heaped together (Deu 17:17). Solomon disobeyed (Kg1 10:21, Kg1 10:27). horses . . . chariots--forbidden (Deu 17:16). But Solomon disobeyed (Kg1 20:26). Horses could be used effectively for war in the plains of Egypt; not so in the hilly Judea. God designed there should be as wide as possible a distinction between Israel and the Egyptians. He would have His people wholly dependent on Him, rather than on the ordinary means of warfare (Psa 20:7). Also horses were connected with idolatry (Kg2 23:11); hence His objection: so the transition to "idols" (Isa 2:8) is natural.”

“Their land also is full of silver and gold - This “gold” was brought chiefly from Ophir. Solomon imported vast quantities of silver and gold from foreign places; 2Ch 8:18; 2 Chronicles 9:10; 1 Chronicles 29:4; compare Job 28:16; 1 Kings 10:21, 1Ki 10:27; 2 Chronicles 9:20. ‘And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones.’ ‘It was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.’ From these expressions we see the force of the language of Isaiah - ‘their land is full,’ etc. This accumulation of silver and gold was expressly forbidden by the law of Moses; Deuteronomy 17:17 : ‘Neither shall he (the king of Israel) greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.’ The reason of this prohibition…”

“Treasures - They have heaped up riches, and still are greedily pursuing after more. Isaiah 2:9”

“2:7-8 Isaiah pointed out all the things that people substitute for the true God: material achievements and securities (silver . . . treasures), military strength (warhorses . . . chariots), and objects of affection (idols). Such wealth and military strength characterized the reign of King Uzziah (2 Chr 26:6-21). Elsewhere, Isaiah pointed out the sheer folly of worshiping anything that is made with one’s own hands (see Isa 44:9-20; 45:16).”

“land: Deu 17:16, Deu 17:17; Kg1 10:21-27; Ch2 9:20-25; Jer 5:27, Jer 5:28; Jam 5:1-3; Rev 18:3, Rev 18:11-17 their land is: Isa 30:16, Isa 31:1; Deu 17:16; Kg1 4:26, Kg1 10:26; Psa 20:7; Hos 14:3 Isaiah 2:8”

“In Isa 2:7, Isa 2:8 he describes still further how the land of the people of Jehovah, in consequence of all this (on the future consec. see Ges. 129, 2, a), was crammed full of objects of luxury, of self-confidence, of estrangement from God: "And their land is filled with silver and gold, and there is no end of their treasures; and their land is filled with horses, and there is no end of their chariots. And their land is filled with - idols; the work of their own hands they worship, that which their own fingers have made." The glory of Solomon, which revived under Uzziah's fifty-two years' reign, and was sustained through Jotham's reign of sixteen years, carried with it the curse of the law;…”