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Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 46:5

There is no comparison between the true God and false gods (cf. Isaiah 40:18). read more

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 46:6-7

This is Isaiah’s fourth and last exposé of the folly of idol worship (cf. Isaiah 40:19-20; Isaiah 41:6-7; Isaiah 44:9-20). How foolish it is to spend a lot of money and effort to make something that cannot care for itself much less its worshipper. It has no power to respond in any way, much less to save."There are two kinds of gods in this world: the kind you carry and the One who can carry you." [Note: Dyer, in The Old . . ., p. 569.] read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 46:1-13

The Contrast between Jehovah and the Deities of Babylon1, 2. The idols of Babylon will be borne away by the conquerors amongst the spoil, the gods being powerless to save their images. i. Bel] the chief Babylonian deity (Jeremiah 50:2).Boweth.. stoopeth] before the conqueror.Nebo] son of Bel, the Babylonian Mercury. The name means ’revealer.’ Your carriages, etc.] RV ’the things that ye carried about in processions are made a load,’ of spoil for the conquerors: see on Isaiah 10:28. 3, 4. So far... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 46:3

(3) Hearken unto me.—The prophet’s choice of words is singularly emphatic. The false gods are borne away as a burden. The true God bears, i.e., supports, His people. He is able to bear that burden. Every “I” is emphasised in the Hebrew. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 46:4

(4) Even to your old age.—The care of a mother ceases, in the natural course of things, before a man grows old, but the fatherly, we might almost say the mother-like, maternal care of Jehovah for His chosen ones endures even to the end of life. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 46:5

(5) To whom will ye liken me?—The argument against idolatry is renewed in nearly its old form (Isaiah 40:18-25; Isaiah 44:9-17). The fate of Bel and Nebo is urged against those who thought that they might worship Jehovah as those deities had been worshipped. Such had been the sin of the calves at Bethel and at Dan. Like it had been the act of Israel when it had carried the ark into battle against the Philistines (1 Samuel 4:5). read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Isaiah 46:1-13

Religious Uses of Memory Isaiah 46:9 Of all the powers that God has given us, none is more wonderful than memory. For what is memory? It is a twofold power. It is the power that gathers in the past, and crowds into some secret cabinet here the twice ten thousand things that we have learned. And then it is the power that out of that crowded storehouse brings the things forth again, calls them to mind. I. There is no religion which lays such an emphasis on memory as Christianity. What do we call... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 46:1-13

CHAPTER XIBEARING OR BORNEIsaiah 46:1-13CHAPTER 46. is a definite prophecy, complete in itself. It repeats many of the truths which we have found in previous chapters, and we have already seen what it says about Cyrus. But it also strikes out a new truth, very relevant then, when men made idols and worshipped the works of their hands, and relevant still, when so many, with equal stupidity, are more concerned about keeping up the forms of their religion than allowing God to sustain... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Isaiah 46:1-13

CHAPTER 46 1. Babylon Is to Fall The Babylonian idols carried by the beasts (Isaiah 46:1-2 ) 2. How Jehovah carries His people (Isaiah 46:3-4 ) 3. The divine reproach (Isaiah 46:5-7 ) 4. A ravenous bird (Cyrus) to come from the east (Isaiah 46:8-11 ) 5. Salvation in Zion (Isaiah 46:12-13 ) The opening verses are comforting. The helplessness of the Babylonian idols is described. They have to be carried. They cannot deliver out of captivity, for they themselves have gone in to... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 46:3

46:3 Hearken to me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are {e} borne [by me] from the birth, which are carried from the womb:(e) He shows the difference between the idols and the true God; for they must be carried by others, but God himself carries his, as in De 32:11 . read more

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 46:5

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 46:6-7

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 46:1-13

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 46:3

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 46:4

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 46:5

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Isaiah 46:1-13

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 46:1-13

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Isaiah 46:1-13

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 46:3

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