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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 1:15

Isaiah 1:15. When ye spread forth your hands When ye pray with your hands spread abroad, as the manner was; I will hide mine eyes from you I will take no notice of your persons or requests. Your hands are full of blood You are guilty of murder and oppression, and of other crying sins, which I abhor, and have forbidden under pain of my highest displeasure. read more

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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 1:16-17

Isaiah 1:16-17. Wash ye, make you clean Repent, and do works meet for repentance: cleanse your hearts and hands from all filthiness of flesh and spirit, and do not content yourselves with your ceremonial washings. He refers to the charge preferred in the preceding clause, and alludes to the legal purifications commanded on several occasions: see Leviticus 14:8-9; Leviticus 14:47. Put away the evil, &c., from before mine eyes Reform yourselves thoroughly, that you may not only approve... read more

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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 1:18-20

Isaiah 1:18-20. Come now, let us reason together The word נוכחה is properly understood of two contending parties arguing a case; or, as Bishop Lowth translates it, pleading together; but here it seems to import also the effect, or issue of such a debate, namely, the accommodating their differences. Though your sins be as scarlet Red and bloody as theirs were, mentioned Isaiah 1:15; great and heinous; they shall be white as snow God, upon your repentance and reformation, will pardon... read more

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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 1:21

Isaiah 1:21. How is the faithful city Jerusalem, which in the reign of former kings was faithful to God; become a harlot Filled with idolatry, called whoredom in the Scriptures. It was full of judgment, &c. Judgment was truly and duly executed in all its courts, and righteousness, or justice, lodged, or had its seat in it; but now murderers Under that one gross kind, he comprehends all sorts of unrighteous men and practices. read more

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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 1:22-23

Isaiah 1:22-23. Thy silver is become dross Thou art wofully degenerated from thy former purity. Thy wine mixed with water If there be any remains of religion and virtue in thee, they are mixed with many and great corruptions. Thy princes are rebellious Against me, their sovereign Lord; and companions of thieves Partly by giving them connivance and countenance, and partly by practising the same violence, and cruelty, and injustice that thieves used to do. Every one loveth gifts That... read more

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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 1:24

Isaiah 1:24. Ah, I will ease me, &c. This is an expression borrowed from men’s passions, who find some sort of ease and rest in their minds upon venting their anger on just occasions, or in bringing offenders to condign punishment. Thus God, speaking after the manner of men, represents himself as feeling satisfaction in executing justice upon obstinate and incorrigible offenders. Compare Ezekiel 5:13; Ezekiel 16:42; Ezekiel 21:17. But let it be observed, God is never said to take... read more

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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 1:25-26

Isaiah 1:25-26. And I will turn my hand upon thee I will chastise thee again, and thereby reform thee: or, I will do that for the reviving of religion, which I did at first for the planting of it. And purge away thy dross I will purge out of thee those wicked men that are incorrigible, and, as for those of you that are curable, I will by my word, and by the furnace of affliction, purge out all that corruption that yet remains in you. And I will restore thy judges, &c. I will give... read more

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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 1:27-28

Isaiah 1:27-28. Zion shall be redeemed Shall be delivered from all their enemies and calamities; with judgment By the exercise of God’s strict justice in destroying the obdurate; by purging out those wicked and incorrigible Jews, who, by their sins, hindered the deliverance of the people; and by punishing and destroying their unmerciful enemies who kept them in cruel bondage; and her converts Hebrew, ושׁביה , her returners, those of them who shall come out of captivity into their... read more

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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 1:29

Isaiah 1:29. For they shall be ashamed He does not speak of an ingenuous and penitential shame for sin, but of an involuntary and penal shame for the disappointment of the hopes which they had placed in their idols; of the oaks which ye have desired Which, after the manner of the heathen, you have consecrated to idolatrous uses. Of what particular kind the trees here mentioned were, cannot be determined with certainty. The Hebrew word אלה , here used, is rendered ilex by Bishop Lowth,... read more

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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 1:30

Isaiah 1:30. For ye shall be as an oak, &c. As you have sinned under the oaks and in the gardens, so you shall be like unto oaks and gardens, not when they are green and flourishing, but when they wither and decay. This verse is remarkably elegant, in which, what was the pleasure and confidence of those idolaters, is made to denote their punishment. “All the gardens in the East,” says a late writer, “have water in them, which is so absolutely necessary, that without it every thing, in... read more

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 1:15

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 1:16-17

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 1:18-20

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 1:21

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 1:22-23

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 1:24

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 1:25-26

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 1:27-28

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 1:29

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 1:30

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