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TO WHOM WILL YE LIKEN ME - (see the notes at Isaiah 40:18, Isaiah
40:25). The design of this and the following verses is to show the
folly of idolatry, and the vanity of trusting in idols. This is a
s...
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CHAPTER 46
1. _Babylon Is to Fall The Babylonian idols carried by the beasts
(Isaiah 46:1)_ 2. _How Jehovah carries His people (Isaiah 46:3)_ 3.
_The divine reproach (Isaiah 46:5)_ 4. A ravenous bird...
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THE HELPLESS PLIGHT OF BABYLON'S GODS CONTRASTED WITH THE SAVING MIGHT
OF YAHWEH.
Isaiah 46:1 f. In vision the prophet sees the images of Babylon's gods
(two of the most prominent are named), taken fr...
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DISCOURSE: 945
GOD’S CARE FOR HIS PEOPLE
Isaiah 46:3. _Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant
of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which
are carried from the...
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TO WHOM WILL YE LIKEN ME— We have in these verses the conviction
itself, exhibiting the vanity of idolatry. The argument is similar to
that in chap. Isaiah 40:18, &c. and Isaiah 44:12, &c. except that...
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3. SOVEREIGN OVER NATIONS, Chapter S 46 - 47
a. CONDEMNING THEIR GODS
TEXT: Isaiah 46:1-13
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Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth; their idols are upon the beasts, and
upon the cattle: the things that ye...
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THE CONTRAST BETWEEN JEHOVAH AND THE DEITIES OF BABYLON
1, 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 c...
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An *idol can be very expensive to make. But its maker has completely
wasted his money. No *idol can ever do anything to help its owner.
GOD’S PLANS NEVER FAIL
V8 ‘Remember this, you people who do n...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 46
THE END FOR BABYLON’S GODS
V1 The chief gods of Babylon were called Be...
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TO WHOM WILL YE LIKEN ME? — The argument against idolatry is renewed
in nearly its old form (Isaiah 40:18; Isaiah 44:9). The fate of Bel
and Nebo is urged against those who thought that they might wor...
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לְ מִ֥י תְדַמְי֖וּנִי וְ תַשְׁו֑וּ וְ
תַמְשִׁ
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Isaiah 44:1; Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 46:1; Isaiah 47:1; Isaiah 48:1...
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GOD'S SALVATION SHALL NOT TARRY
Isaiah 46:1-13
Here is a startling contrast! Babylon is broken up. An invading army
of stern monotheists have slain the idolatrous priests at their altars
and are enga...
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This chapter and the next contain the prophecy of the fall of Babylon.
This one describes the failure of the gods. It opens with a graphic
picture of the idols being hurried away for safety, carried o...
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To whom will ye liken me, and make [me] equal, and (g) compare me,
that we may be like?
(g) The people of God setting their own calamity, and the flourishing
estate of the Babylonians, would be tempt...
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Amidst all the folly of idolatry, there is one feature, in which the
worshippers become a reproach to us: I mean, in that they spared no
expense in their religious rites. This scripture saith they lav...
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5._To whom will ye liken and compare me? _Here the Prophet introduces
the Lord as remonstrating with the Jews, because they distrusted and
doubted his power, and, in a word, because they put him on a...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 46, 47, AND 48.
In Chapter s 46, 47, the application is made to Babylon and to her
idols, but still as pleading for Israel as beloved of God; for
governmental...
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TO WHOM WILL YE LIKEN ME?.... Was it lawful that any likeness might be
made, which yet is forbidden, Exodus 20:4 what likeness could be
thought of? is there any creature in heaven or earth, among all...
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To whom will ye liken me, and make [me] equal, and compare me, that we
may be like?
Ver. 5. To whom, _a_ then, will ye liken me? _b_ &c.,] _q.d., _ To
which of your paramours? for here the Lord retur...
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Isa. 46:1-7. Bel and Nebo, the gods of Babylon, were first carried by
men on their shoulders, verse 7, and then afterwards when Babylon was
destroyed they were carried by the beasts. When the Medes an...
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_To whom will you liken me_, &c. If you be tempted at any time to
exchange me for an idol, do me and yourselves the right seriously to
consider, whether you can find another god, who will be more able...
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To whom will ye liken Me, and make Me equal, and compare Me, that we
may be like? Cf. Isaiah 40:18. The heaping of expressions again
stresses the uniqueness of the true God, the fact that He alone mer...
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THE FALL OF BABYLON'S IDOLS...
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5-13 Here the folly of those who made idols, and then prayed to them,
is exposed. How does the profuseness of idolaters shame the
niggardliness of many who call themselves God's servants, but are for...
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If you are tempted or inclined at any time to exchange me for an
_idol_, do me and yourselves this right, seriously to consider,
whether you can find another God who will be more able and more ready
t...
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Isaiah 46:5 liken H1819 (H8762) equal H7737 (H8686) compare H4911
(H8686) alike H1819 (H8799)...
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WHILE THE GODS OF THE NATIONS HAVE TO BE BORNE BY MAN AND BEAST,
YAHWEH HIMSELF IN CONTRAST BEARS HIS PEOPLE (ISAIAH 46:3).
Isaiah 46:3
“Listen to me, O house of Jacob,
And all the remnant of the h...
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Isaiah 46:5
In these words, as in other and similar passages of Scripture, God
asserts an immeasurable difference between Himself and all created
beings.
I. We distinguish the Creator from every crea...
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CONTENTS: Israel exhorted to remember the power of God and
powerlessness of idols.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: False gods will certainly fail the worshippers when they
have most need of them. It is...
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Isaiah 46:1. _Bel_ or Baal. See on Numbers 32:38. It is understood
that the name is derived from Belus; the history is involved in
obscurity. The priests every night prepared him a voluptuous supper,...
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_To whom will ye liken Me?_
IDOLS CANNOT REPRESENT GOD
The Jews might have alleged that they served not the false gods of the
Gentiles, but the God of Israel; and that they used images when they
wors...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 46:1 The Lord will humiliate the idols of
human self-worship and will demonstrate that he is the one true God.
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GOD INCOMPARABLE
Isaiah 46:5. _To whom then will ye liken Me? &c._
I. THE DOCTRINE TAUGHT BY THE PROPHET. Evidently that God is
incomparable. He is so—
1. _In the splendour of His perfections_. He i...
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EXPOSITION
ISAIAH 46:1, ISAIAH 46:2
THE FALL OF THE GODS OF BABYLON. Among the direct consequences of the
victories of Cyrus will be
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Isaiah chapter 46. Now in Isaiah 46:1-13 we get a short contrast
between God, the true and the living eternal God that created the
heavens and the earth, and the false gods that these people were
wors...
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Colossians 1:15; Exodus 15:11; Hebrews 1:3; Isaiah 40:18; Isaiah 40:25