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
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