イザヤ書 2:6-8 JCB

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 2:6-8

National judgments the result of national sins. God's dealings with Israel are to be viewed as a pattern of his dealings with nations generally. He has not two standards of right and wrong, or two rules of action under like circumstances. He is "no respecter of persons." As he dealt with his own peculiar people, so will he deal, so has he always dealt, with the other nations of the world. I. EVERY NATION HAS ITS PROBATION . God proved Israel during the space of above seven... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 2:6-21

Retribution and its results. In this noble prophetic passage, as charged with poetic grandeur as it is full of religious zeal, we have our thought directed to— I. Two HEINOUS SINS WHICH BELONG TO EVERY AGE AND CLASS . They are these: 1. Disobedience . The divination to which reference is made ( Isaiah 2:6 ) is expressly prohibited in the Law ( Deuteronomy 18:10-12 ); alliance with strangers ( Isaiah 2:6 ) is also forbidden ( Exodus 34:12 ; Dent; Exodus... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 2:7

Full of silver and gold . The results of the commercial activity—not evil things in themselves, but probably acquired by sharp dealing, and leading to undue softness and luxury. The Law had given a warning against "greatly multiplying silver and gold" ( Deuteronomy 17:17 ). For the fact of the vast abundance of the precious metals in Judaea at this time, see 2 Kings 14:16 ; 2 Kings 20:13 ; 2 Chronicles 32:27 ; and compare Sennacherib's inscription on the Taylor Cylinder. Full of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 2:8

Full of idols . The historians declare that both Uzziah and Jotham maintained the worship of Jehovah and disallowed idolatry ( 2 Kings 15:3 , 2 Kings 15:34 ; 2 Chronicles 26:4 ; 2 Chronicles 27:2 ), so that we must regard the idol-worship of the time as an irregular and private practice. (It is, perhaps, alluded to in 2 Chronicles 27:2 ; and the fact of its prevalence is stated in Amos 2:1 ; Micah 5:13 .) Perhaps Bishop Lowth is right in regarding it as mainly a continuation of... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 2:6

Therefore - The prophet proceeds in this and the following verses, to state the reasons of their calamities, and of the judgments that had come upon them. Those judgments he traces to the crimes which he enumerates - crimes growing chiefly out of great commercial prosperity, producing pride, luxury, and idolatry.Thou hast forsaken - The address is changed from the exhortation to the house of Jacob Isaiah 2:5 to God, as is frequently the case in the writings of Isaiah. It indicates a state where... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 2:7

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... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 2:8

Their land also is full of idols - compare Hosea 8:4; Hosea 10:1. Vitringa supposes that Isaiah here refers to idols that were kept in private houses, as Uzziah and Jotham were worshippers of the true God, and in their reign idolatry was not publicly practiced. It is certain, however, that though Uzziah himself did right, and was disposed to worship the true God, yet he did not effectually remove idolatry from the land. The high places were not removed, and the people still sacrificed and... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 2:6

Isaiah 2:6 . Therefore For the following causes; thou hast forsaken thy people Or, wilt certainly forsake and reject them. The house of Jacob The body of that nation. The prophet here begins his complaint of the state of the Jewish nation, and “assigns the reason of God’s withdrawing his kindness from those of the present age, (as there would be a more remarkable rejection of them under the gospel,) because of their following the corrupt manners of the idolatrous nations round about... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 2:7

Isaiah 2:7. Their land also is full of silver, &c. They have heaped up riches immoderately, and still are greedily pursuing after more. Lowth thinks the prophet is especially reproving those who, in the midst of the public calamities, made no conscience of enriching themselves by oppression and injustice. Their land also is full of horses Which even their kings were forbidden to multiply, (as they were also forbidden to multiply gold and silver,) and much more the people. In the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 2:8-9

Isaiah 2:8-9. Their land also is full of idols Every city had its god, (Jeremiah 11:13,) and, according to the goodness and fertility of their lands, they made goodly images, Hosea 10:1. They worship the work of their own hands They gave that worship to their own creatures, to the images which their own fancies had devised, and their own fingers had made, which they denied to JEHOVAH their Creator, than which nothing could be more impious or more absurd. And the mean man boweth down, ... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 2:6-8

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 2:6-21

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 2:7

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 2:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 2:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 2:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 2:8

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 2:6

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 2:7

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 2:8-9

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