John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 46:6
Isa 46:6 They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, [and] hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship. Ver. 6. They lavish gold out of the bag. ] They spare for no cost. Nebuchadnezzar did not in that vast Colossus. Dan 3:1 Canutus bestowed upon a cross his whole annual entrado, or revenue. He also gave a hundred talents of silver and one of gold for St Augustine’s arm, which he bestowed on Coventry as a memorial of his blind zeal. The... read more
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 46:1-13
Isaiah 46:1 . Bel or Baal. See on Numbers 32:38. It is understood that the name is derived from Belus; the history is involved in obscurity. The priests every night prepared him a voluptuous supper, and they and their wives entered by a private door and ate the meat. Daniel detected this imposture, as mentioned in the Apocrypha. Nebo stoopeth. קרס korais, stoops or crouches. His worshippers used to bow to receive his oracles; now the god himself stoopeth. The verb occurs only in this... read more