Isaiah 6:4

“And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, &c.] That is, the posts of the door of the temple, as the Targum adds, where this vision was seen, as represented to the prophet. Some think this respects the earthquake in Uzziah’s time, mentioned in (<381405>Zechariah 14:5 <300101> Amos 1:1) and which they suppose was at the time he attempted to offer incense, and was smitten with leprosy; but, as Kimchi observes, this moving of the door posts was only in the vision of prophecy, and not in reality; this shaking therefore may denote either the shaking and removing of the temple service and worship, at the death of Christ, and through the preaching of the Gospel; or rather the…”

“posts of . . . door--rather, foundations of the thresholds. house--temple. smoke--the Shekinah cloud (Kg1 8:10; Eze 10:4).”

“And the posts of the door - Margin, ‘Thresholds.’ There is some difficulty in the Hebrew here, but the meaning of the expression is sufficiently apparent. It means that there was a tremour, or concussion, as if by awe, or by the sound attending the cry. It is evidently a poetic expression. The house - The temple. Was filled with smoke - There is here, doubtless, a reference to “the cloud” that is so often mentioned in the Old Testament as the visible symbol of the Divinity; see the note at Isaiah 4:5. A similar appearance is recorded when Solomon dedicated the temple; 1Ki 8:10; 2 Chronicles 5:13; Ezekiel 10:4. return to 'Top of Page'”

“The posts - Together with the door itself. Such violent motions were commonly tokens of God's anger. Smoak - Which elsewhere is a token of God's presence and acceptance, but here of his anger. Isaiah 6:5”

“posts: Eze 1:24, Eze 10:5; Amo 9:1 door: Heb. thresholds the house: Exo 40:34; Kg1 8:10-12; Ch2 5:13, Ch2 5:14, Ch2 6:1; Psa 18:8; Rev 11:19, Rev 15:8 Isaiah 6:5”

“When Isaiah heard this, he stood entranced at the farthest possible distance from Him that sat upon the throne, namely, under the door of the heavenly palace or temple. What he still further felt and saw, he proceeds to relate in Isa 6:4 : "And the foundations of the thresholds shook with the voice of them that cried; and the house became full of smoke." By ‛ammoth hassippim, the lxx, Vulgate, Syriac, and others understand the posts of the lintels, the supporting beams of the superliminaria, which closed the doorway at the top. But as saph is only used in other places to signify the threshold and porch (limen and vestibulum), ‛ammoth hassippim must be understood here in the (perfectly…”