Isaiah 57:2-3 NIV

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 57:3-13

Isaiah 57:3-1 Chronicles : . An Invective against the Pro-Samaritans.— Yahweh turns now bitterly to upbraid the “ pro-Samaritan” party in the community, among whom flourished many of the primitive Palestinian religious practices. To defame his mother was to an Eastern the most offensive of insults; but the terms used are figurative (idolatry being often in OT described as adultery). How can this false brood deride the pious! ( Isaiah 57:5 is probably an illustrative quotation). The adulteress... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 57:2

He shall enter into peace; this just and merciful man shall enter into a state of peace and rest, where he shall be out of the reach of the approaching miseries. Or, He shall go (to wit, to his fathers, as it is fully expressed, Genesis 15:15; or, he shall die; going being put for dying, as 1 Chronicles 17:11, compared with 2 Samuel 7:12; Job 10:21; Job 14:20; Luke 22:22, and elsewhere) in peace. They; just men. Here is a sudden change of the number, which is very frequent in the prophets. In... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 57:3

Draw near hither, to God’s tribunal, to answer for yourselves, and to hear what I have to say against you, and to receive your sentence. Sons of the sorceress; not by propagation, but by imitation; such being frequently called a man or woman’s sons that learn their art, and follow their example: you sorcerers, either properly or metaphorically so called; for the Jews were guilty of it both ways. The seed of the adulterer and the whore; not the genuine children of Abraham, as you pretend and... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 57:1-2

THE DEATH OF THE GOOD(Funeral Sermon.)Isaiah 57:1-2. The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart, &c.I. Though God’s people are the excellent of the earth, yet they must die. Though “righteous” and “merciful,” and on these accounts so precious in God’s eyes, and so useful in His cause, they are not exempted from that sentence of death which is passed upon all men. Were we consulted concerning many of them, we should entreat that they might be spared, and we see not how the cause... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 57:1-21

Chapter 57The righteous man perishes, and no man lays it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, and none is considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come ( Isaiah 57:1 ).There are many who see this verse as a description of what happens at the rapture of the church. As the merciful are taken away and no man considering the fact that they have been taken away from the evil that is to come, from the period of the Great Tribulation that is coming.He shall enter into peace:... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 57:1-21

Isaiah 57:1 . The righteous perisheth. This was written as a tribute, it would seem, to the memory of king Hezekiah, who was recently called from an earthly to a heavenly crown. He entered into peace, beyond the reach of all the calamities impending over his country. The nation at large did not know their loss, and therefore sorrowed not as the prophet would have them do. Isaiah 57:4 . Against whom do ye sport yourselves? The idolaters, finding the young king Manasseh decidedly in... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 57:1-2

Isaiah 57:1-2The righteous perishethThe righteous perishingIn view of this prevailing demoralization and worldliness (Isaiah 56:9-12), the righteous one succumbs to the grinding weight of external and internal sufferings: he “perishes,” dies before his time (Ecclesiastes 7:15), from the midst of his contemporaries, disappearing from this life (Psalms 12:1; Micah 7:2), and no man lays it to heart, i.no one considers the Divine accusation and threatening implied in this early death. (F.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 57:2

Isaiah 57:2He shall enter into peaceThe believer in life, death, and eternityTaking them together, the words of the text will lead us to contemplate the child of God--I.IN THE STRENGTH AND VIGOUR OF LIFE. II. IN THE SUFFERING AND THE ARTICLE OF DEATH. III. IN THE CONSEQUENCES OF DISSOLUTION, AS THEY AFFECT BOTH BODY AND SOUL. (J. Haslegrave, M. A.)A glimmering of New Testament consolationHere is a glimmering of the consolation in the New Testament, that the death of the righteous man is better... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 57:2

Isa 57:2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, [each one] walking [in] his uprightness. Ver. 2. He shall enter into peace, ] i.e., Into heaven, where the righteous - however looked upon as lost Isa 57:1 - shall have "life and peace," Rom 8:6 joy and bliss, Matthew 25:21 ; Mat 25:23 rest and peace, Rev 14:13 and this απαρτι amodo, strait upon it so soon as ever they are dead; from henceforth forthwith their souls have happiness inconceivable. As for their bodies, They... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 57:3

Isa 57:3 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore. Ver. 3. But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress. ] Here "Esaias is very bold," as the apostle saith of him in another case, Rom 10:20 and maketh it appear that he was none of those dumb dogs he had rated at in the former chapter. The Jews gloried much in their pedigree and descent from Abraham, and that they were "born of the free woman." He telleth them flat and plain that they were... read more

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 57:3-13

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 57:2

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 57:3

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 57:1-2

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 57:1-21

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 57:1-21

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 57:1-2

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 57:2

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 57:2

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 57:3

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