Isaiah 46:6 NLT,NIV,ESV

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Isaiah 46:1-7

The Fall of Babylon's Idols v. 1. Bel, the highest deity of Babylon, boweth down, is fallen, Nebo, another Babylonian idol, the tutelary deity of the reigning house of Chaldea, stoopeth, collapsing, or falling prostrate, namely, in the plundering of the city; their idols were upon the beasts and upon the cattle, when the beasts of burden dragged them away as a part of the conqueror's booty. Your carriages were heavy loaden, they are a burden to the weary beast, that is, the statues of... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Isaiah 46:1-13

VII.—THE SEVENTH DISCOURSEThe overthrow of the Babylonian idols, and the gain that Israel shall derive from it for its knowledge of GodIsaiah 46:01. ISRAEL SHALL KNOW ITS GOD FROM THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HIM WHO BEARS AND THE IDOLS THAT ARE BORNEIsaiah 46:1-41 Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth,Their idols 1were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle:2Your carriages were heavy loaden;They are a burden to the weary beast.2 They stoop, they bow down together;They could not deliver the... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Isaiah 46:1-13

God’s Salvation Shall not Tarry Isaiah 46:1-13 Here is a startling contrast! Babylon is broken up. An invading army of stern monotheists have slain the idolatrous priests at their altars and are engaged in carrying out the idols for the bonfire. And as the Jewish remnant is witnessing the extraordinary spectacle, they are reminded that their God does not require to be borne. Nay, on the contrary He has borne His people from the earliest days and will continue to bear them till the heavens... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 46:1-13

This chapter and the next contain the prophecy of the fall of Babylon. This one describes the failure of the gods. It opens with a graphic picture of the idols being hurried away for safety, carried on beasts of burden. In immediate contrast the prophet describes Jehovah as carrying His people, and the contrast is endorsed as He inquires, "To whom will ye liken Me, and make Me equal, and compare Me, that we may be like?" Thus He sets forth the fundamental difference between false gods and the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 46:1-13

YAHWEH IS ABOUT TO ACT SO AS TO ESTABLISH HIS PEOPLE AND PREPARE THE WAY FOR HIS SERVANT (Isaiah 44:24 to Isaiah 48:22 ). As with what has gone before it is necessary for us to determine the viewpoint from which we will see these narratives, and in order to do so we must put ourselves in the shoes of Isaiah. Chapters 1-39 were mainly behind him, Hezekiah was dead, and what lay before him was the future in terms of Manasseh’s reign. That reign had not had a promising beginning. Manasseh had... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 46:3-7

While The Gods Of The Nations Have To Be Borne By Man And Beast, Yahweh Himself In Contrast Bears His People (Isaiah 46:3-7 ). Isaiah 46:3-4 “Listen to me, O house of Jacob, And all the remnant of the house of Israel, Who have been borne by me from the belly, Who have been carried from the womb. And even to old age, I am He, And even to grey hairs will I carry you, I have made and I will bear, Yes, I will carry and will deliver.” In contrast with the ignominious situation of the gods of... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 46:1-13

Isaiah 46:1-1 Chronicles : . The Helpless Plight of Babylon’ s Gods Contrasted with the Saving Might of Yahweh. Isaiah 46:1 f. In vision the prophet sees the images of Babylon’ s gods (two of the most prominent are named), taken from their proud pedestals and placed upon the victor’ s beasts. So far from delivering others, or even their own images, Bel and Nabu are carried away captive. The general drift is clear, but details are uncertain owing to corruption of the text. Isaiah 46:1 . and... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 46:6

Maketh it a god; let us suppose, a god made with the greatest cost and art. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 46:5-10

GOD INCOMPARABLEIsaiah 46:5. To whom then will ye liken Me? &c.I. THE DOCTRINE TAUGHT BY THE PROPHET. Evidently that God is incomparable. He is so—1. In the splendour of His perfections. He is self-existent, omnipotent, &c. (Exodus 34:6-7; Psalms 83:18; P. D. 1502, 1508). “Who by searching,” &c.“This awful God is ours,Our Father and our Love,He will send down His heavenly powers,To carry us above.”—Watts.2. In the universality of His dominion. “Created beings have only a limited and... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 46:1-13

Isaiah chapter 46. Now in Isaiah 46:1-13 we get a short contrast between God, the true and the living eternal God that created the heavens and the earth, and the false gods that these people were worshipping. And the tragic thing is these people were the Israelites, the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. They had turned to idolatry. And as you read the prophecy of Isaiah and of Jeremiah, they are crying out against the idolatry of the people, warning them that their continued idolatry... read more