Isaiah 66:1-6 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 66:1-4

Here, I. The temple is slighted in comparison with a gracious soul, Isa. 66:1, 2. The Jews in the prophet's time, and afterwards in Christ's time, gloried much in the temple and promised themselves great things from it; to humble them therefore, and to shake their vain confidence, both the prophets and Christ foretold the ruin of the temple, that God would leave it and then it would soon be desolate. After it was destroyed by the Chaldeans it soon recovered itself and the ceremonial services... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 66:5-14

The prophet, having denounced God's judgments against a hypocritical nation, that made a jest of God's word and would not answer him when he called to them, here turns his speech to those that trembled at his word, to comfort and encourage them; they shall not be involved in the judgments that are coming upon their unbelieving nation. Ministers must distinguish thus, that, when they speak terror to the wicked, they may not make the hearts of the righteous sad. Bone Christiane, hoc nihil ad... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 66:1

Thus saith the Lord, the heaven is my throne ,.... The third heaven, the heaven of heavens, where angels and glorified saints are, and some in bodies, as Enoch and Elijah, and where now Christ is in human nature; this is the seat of the divine Majesty, where he in a most illustrious manner displays his glory; and therefore we are to look upwards to God in heaven, and direct all our devotion to him there, and not imagine that he dwells in temples made with hands; or is confined to any place,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 66:2

For all those things hath mine hand made ,.... The heavens and the earth, which are his throne and footstool; and therefore, since he is the Creator of all things, he must be immense, omnipresent, and cannot be included in any space or place: and all those things have been, saith the Lord ; or "are" F12 ויהיו sunt, Forerius, Gataker. ; they are in being, and continue, and will, being supported by the hand that made them; and what then can be made by a creature? or what house be... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 66:3

He that killeth an ox, is as if he slew a man ,.... Not that killed the ox of his neighbour, which, according to law, he was to pay for; or that killed one for food, which was lawful to be done; but that slew one, and offered it as a sacrifice; not blamed because blind or lame, or had any blemish in it, and so unfit for sacrifice; or because not rightly offered, under a due sense of sin, and with repentance for it, and faith in Christ; but because all sacrifices of this kind are now... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 66:4

I also will choose their delusions ,.... Suffer them to approve and make choice of such persons that should delude and deceive them; as the Scribes and Pharisees, who were wolves in sheep's clothing, and through their appearance of sanctity deceived many, and by their long prayers devoured widows' houses; and as these false prophets, so likewise false Christs, many of which arose after the true Messiah was come, and was rejected by them, whom they embraced, and, by whom they were deluded and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 66:5

Hear the word of the Lord, ye that tremble at his word ,.... This is said to the comfort of the believing Jews, who are thus described; See Gill on Isaiah 66:2 , your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake ; as the unbelieving Jews, the Pharisees; and so Jarchi interprets it of the children of the Pharisee, that say, Depart, ye defiled; who were brethren to them that believed in Christ, by blood, by birth, by country, yet hated them, though without cause; as they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 66:6

A voice of noise from the city ,.... From the city of Jerusalem, as the Targum; so Kimchi, who says, that in the days of the Messiah shall go out of Jerusalem the voice of noise concerning Gog and Magog: this indeed respects the days of the Messiah, but such as are now past, and a voice of crying in the city of Jerusalem, at, the taking and destruction of it by the Romans; when were heard from it the noisy voices of the Roman soldiers, triumphing and rejoicing at it, and the shrieks of the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 66:2

And all those things have been "And all these things are mine" - A word absolutely necessary to the sense is here lost out of the text: לי li , mine. It is preserved by the Septuagint and Syriac. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 66:3

He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man "He that slayeth an ox killeth a man" - These are instances of wickedness joined with hypocrisy; of the most flagitious crimes committed by those who at the same time affected great strictness in the performance of all the external services of religion. God, by the Prophet Ezekiel, upbraids the Jews with the same practices: "When they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it," Ezekiel... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 66:1-4

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 66:5-14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 66:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 66:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 66:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 66:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 66:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 66:6

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 66:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 66:3

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