Isaiah 56:4

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 56:1-8

56:1-66:24 PRESENT SHAME AND FUTURE GLORYHaving looked beyond the Babylonian captivity to the Jews’ imminent return to their homeland, the prophet now sees the people resettled in and around Jerusalem. What he sees causes him to realize that this is not the golden age after all. Social and religious sins once again become a characteristic of the national life of Israel. The prophet contrasts this corrupt state of affairs with conditions in the ideal Jerusalem of the future.In this section, as... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 56:4

choose. See note on Isaiah 1:29 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 56:3-7

Isaiah 56:3-7. Neither let the son of the stranger, &c.— The strangers and eunuchs were excluded from the privileges of native Jews. In this period they are informed that the time is coming when those distinctions and restraints shall have no force, when the inward endowments of the soul should be sufficient to give pious persons a title to the communion of saints; and their name should be written in the book of life: A more lasting remembrance than that of the most numerous posterity. The... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 56:4

4. please me—sacrifice their own pleasure to mine. take hold—so "layeth hold" (see on Isaiah 56:5). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 56:1-8

The basis of acceptance and blessing 56:1-8This transitional pericope introduces the problem that the previous sections of the book posed, which I have tried to explain just above. It also begins the explanation of the solution by placing in stark contrast two opposing views of what pleases God: simply being a child of Abraham, versus living in loving obedience to God. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 56:4-5

The prophet prefaced his shocking explanation of the spiritual acceptability of ritually unacceptable people with, "For thus says Yahweh." This was not just his opinion but divine revelation.The Lord would give eunuchs who obeyed Him out of love: an eternal reputation, far greater than what they would have had if they had not obeyed Him, but instead had borne children to perpetuate their reputations on the earth. The Lord’s perpetuation of the Ethiopian eunuch’s reputation in Acts 8:27-39 is... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 56:1-8

1, 2. Further conditions to be observed that men may share in the approaching deliverance. 1. Keep ye.. justice] i.e. keep the law, and practise righteousness. 2. Layeth hold on] RV ’ holdeth fast by.’ Polluting] RV ’profaning.’3-7. The privileges of the people of God are open to all, even to those who think themselves excluded by race, or by physical disability (Deuteronomy 23:1). The sabbath appears to have been more strictly observed in the BabyIonian period than it had been under the... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 56:1-12

This section is not so argumentative in tone as the last. Its distinguishing feature is the development of the prophet's teaching concerning the Servant of Jehovah. The conception seems to arise, as has been noted, with the nation considered collectively as a Servant of God (Isaiah 41:8-9; Isaiah 44:1-2, Isaiah 44:21; Isa 45:4). So long as the attitude and work of God in relation to the nation are solely in view, there is no limitation of the idea; but when the nation's work and attitude to Him... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 56:1-8

7, Isaiah 55:1-13, Isaiah 56:1-8CHAPTER XXIION THE EVE OF RETURNIsaiah 54:1-17, Isaiah 55:1-13, Isaiah 56:1-8ONE of the difficult problems of our prophecy is the relation and grouping of chapters 54-59. It is among them that the unity of "Second Isaiah," which up to this point we have seen no reason to doubt, gives way. Isaiah 56:9-12 is evidently pre-exilic, and so is Isaiah 59:1-21. But in chapters 54, 55, and Isaiah 56:1-8 we have three addresses, evidently dating from the Eve of the Return.... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Isaiah 56:1-8

CHAPTER 56 Salvation Enjoyed by the Strangers and Eunuchs 1. Strangers and servants joined unto the Lord to serve Him and to love the Name of the Lord (Isaiah 56:1-8 ) The first eight verses of this chapter stand by themselves. Strangers to the commonwealth of Israel and eunuchs are gathered in. It is the result of the gracious invitation of the preceding chapter and that again is the result of the work of the Servant of Jehovah and His vicarious suffering. While these verses look forward... read more