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Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 41:1-29

In the forty-first chapter of Isaiah in the first part of the chapter, God begins His predictions concerning Cyrus who was not yet born. A man who was not to be born for a hundred and fifty years. But God begins to talk about him. How he's going to raise him up. How he's going to prosper him. How he's going to give him a kingdom and subdue nations before him. As we progress in our study tonight, we'll find that God actually names him. "In order to prove that I'm really God, there's no one else... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 41:1-29

Isaiah 41:1 . Keep silence before me, oh islands. Commentators here refer us to the time of our Saviour’s birth, for the isles of Chittim designate the Roman power. In the Augustan age, the temple of Janus for the third time was shut, in commemoration of peace throughout the world, and when the stormy shouts of war were heard no more. Thus, when the fulness of time was come, providence prepared the way, by peace and concord, for the Saviour’s advent. Christian doctors seem agreed, that... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 41:22

Isa 41:22 Let them bring [them] forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they [be], that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come. Ver. 22. Let them bring forth, and show what shall happen. ] By such arguments as these, Cleanthes in Cicero a testifieth, though himself were a heathen, that the deity might he known. And whereas it may he objected that the Delphic devil had foretold things to come, it is answered,... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Isaiah 41:22

and show: Isaiah 42:9, Isaiah 43:9-2 Kings :, Isaiah 45:21, Isaiah 48:14, John 13:19, John 16:14 consider them: Heb. set our heart upon them Reciprocal: Genesis 41:25 - God Deuteronomy 18:22 - speaketh 2 Kings 1:6 - Thus saith Ecclesiastes 1:11 - There is Isaiah 19:12 - let them Isaiah 41:1 - let the people Isaiah 41:26 - declared Isaiah 44:7 - who Isaiah 46:10 - the end Isaiah 48:3 - declared Daniel 2:22 - revealeth Daniel 2:28 - that revealeth Daniel 10:21 - I will Matthew 12:17 - it John... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 41:22

Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.Them — The idols.Former things — Such things as should shortly come to pass.The latter end — Whether the events answer to their predictions. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 41:22-23

22, 23. Let them… show us what shall happen The main challenge is, as to the power of idols to foretell events. But either as if disgusted with such a proposition, or as if the false prophets, in their usual way, did attempt to answer by isolated, unintelligible statements, though this is not intimated the whole thing was at once quashed by the virtual question. “Do ye know any thing at all past, present, or future?” The conclusion is shown in the next verse. read more

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