Isaiah 65:4 NIV

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 65:4

graves = tombs. Hebrew. keber. App-35 . monuments = secret places. Probably in heathen temples. eat swine's flesh. Reference to Pentateuch, where this was forbidden (Leviticus 11:7 . Deuteronomy 14:8 ). App-92 . Bones of swine were found at Gezer. See note on 1 Kings 9:15 . broth. The reference is to a sacrificial feast of unclean food. abominable things. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 7:18 ; Leviticus 19:7 ). The Hebrew word ( piggul ) is found only in Ezekiel 4:14 , beside these... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 65:3-4

Isaiah 65:3-4. That sacrificeth in gardens, &c.— The superstition of the Jews is here reproved: the passage is not to be understood literally, but mystically (see ch. Isaiah 66:17.); the prophet herein figuratively setting forth their shameful and detestable deviation from the true faith and the practice of holiness and virtue, which was as hateful and offensive to God as the most odious sacrifices, and vilest superstitions of idolatry. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 65:4

4. remain among . . . graves—namely, for purposes of necromancy, as if to hold converse with the dead (Isaiah 8:19; Isaiah 8:20; compare Mark 5:3); or, for the sake of purifications, usually performed at night among sepulchres, to appease the manes [MAURER]. monuments—Hebrew, "pass the night in hidden recesses," either the idol's inmost shrines ("consecrated precincts") [HORSLEY], where they used to sleep, in order to have divine communications in dreams [JEROME]; or better, on account of the... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 65:1-7

Superficial righteousness 65:1-7 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 65:1-16

The divine response 65:1-16The Lord responded, through the prophet, to the viewpoint expressed in the preceding prayer (Isaiah 63:7 to Isaiah 64:12)."The great mass [of the Israelites] were in that state of ’sin unto death’ which defies all intercession (1 John Isaiah 65:16), because they had so scornfully and obstinately resisted the grace which had been so long and so incessantly offered to them." [Note: Delitzsch, 2:474.] read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 65:4

The Israelites also engaged in pagan practices that rendered them unclean, and they were not careful to avoid the defilement caused by disregard for God’s will. God’s standards of discipline and holiness were of no concern to them (cf. Revelation 21:8; Revelation 22:15)."Sitting in the tombs and lodging between the rocks appear to be rituals of the cult of the dead, that is, necromancy in which one contacts the spirits of the dead by spending the night in the cemeteries." [Note: Ibid., p. 343.] read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 65:1-24

The Punishment of Apostate and Reward of Faithful IsraelIsaiah 65:1-10. Israel’s obduracy to Jehovah’s appeals, and persistent idolatry, which He will surely punish; yet a faithful remnant shall be preserved. 11-25. The fate in store for the unfaithful. The glories of the coming age for God’s faithful people.Isaiah 66:1-4. The danger of trusting in externals; a merely formal worship is an abomination to Jehovah. 5. A message of comfort for the faithful who axe persecuted. 6- 14a. The wonderful... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 65:1-25

1. Render, ’I have offered answers to those who asked not; I have been at hand to those who sought me not.. a nation that hath not called upon my name.’ The v. refers to the Israelites who neglected Jehovah’s appeals so often made. St. Paul (Romans 10:20) applies the passage by inference to the heathen world.3. Gardens] the scenes of idolatrous rites in the pre-exile period (Isaiah 1:29; Isaiah 57:5). Upon altars, etc.] RV ’upon bricks,’ i.e. perhaps the tiled roofs of houses (2 Kings 23:12).... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 65:4

(4) Which remain among the graves.—Probably the rock graves of Palestine, which, although they were ceremonially unclean, were not unfrequently used as dwellings (Matthew 8:28; Mark 5:3). The charge may be one merely of neglecting the precepts of the Law, but possibly also may imply that the graves were frequented, as in Isaiah 8:19; Isaiah 29:4, for necromantic purposes.Lodge in the monuments . . .—Here, again, the words probably point to practices more or less idolatrous, and common among the... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Isaiah 65:1-25

The Church a Blessing in the World Isaiah 65:8 As a rule, the pious and good are of little value in the eyes of the world, and are despised often as foolish and 'narrow' men. The 'religious public' is spoken of contemptuously and scornfully. But God's judgment is a different one. It is the judgment that Abraham recognized when he pleaded for Sodom and Gomorrah for the sake of even (at length) ten righteous persons. It is the judgment of the text. The vinedresser is about to hew down the... read more

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 65:4

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 65:3-4

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 65:4

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 65:1-7

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 65:1-16

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 65:4

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 65:1-24

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 65:1-25

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 65:4

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Isaiah 65:1-25

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