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Verse Isaiah 65:3. _THAT SACRIFICETH IN GARDENS, AND BURNETH INCENSE
UPON_ _ALTARS OF BRICK_ - "Sacrificing in the gardens, and burning
incense on the tiles"] These are instances of heathenish supers...
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A PEOPLE - This verse contains a specification of the reasons why God
had rejected them, and brought the calamities upon them.
THAT PROVOKETH ME TO ANGER - That is, by their sins. They give
constant...
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CHAPTER 65
Jehovah's Answer: The Rebellious and Their Judgment,
the Faithful and Their Blessings
1. _The divine rebuke to the apostates (Isaiah 65:1) _ 2. _The elect
seed (Isaiah 65:9) _ 3. The judg...
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RETRIBUTION AWAITS THOSE WHO CLING TO THE OLD RITUAL PRACTICES AND
REFUSE TO ADHERE TO THE REFORMED RELIGION. Yahweh declares His
readiness to respond to this people, but they would not approach Him
o...
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PROVOKETH ME TO ANGER. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:21, the
same word, though not the same form). App-92.
THAT SACRIFICETH IN GARDENS. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 17:5).
UPON ALTAR...
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_that sacrificeth in the gardens_ Cf. ch. Isaiah 66:17, and see on
Isaiah 1:29.
_burneth incense upon altars of brick_ Strictly ON THE BRICKS (R.V.),
or TILES. We have no key to the meaning of the exp...
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Description of their illegal and superstitious cults....
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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...
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E. REFINING OF ZION, CHAPTER 65
1. CLEANSED
TEXT: Isaiah 65:1-12
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I am inquired of by them that asked not for me; I am found of them
that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation...
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A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that
sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
A PEOPLE THAT PROVOKETH ME TO ANGER CONTINUALLY - answering to "al...
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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 J...
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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)....
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The people are not content merely to leave God out of their lives.
They are boldly insulting God on purpose. They say that they do not
need God. They are self-sufficient (in other words, they depend o...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 65
CHAPTER S 65-66 refer to subjects in CHAPTER S 1-4.
• In chapter 2:1-...
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These verses describe the same situation in the *Old Testament. There
are many *Israelites who would consider themselves to be the ‘people
of God’. But their daily behaviour does not agree with their...
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THAT SACRIFLCETH IN GARDENS. — It is not without significance, as
bearing on the date of the chapter, that the practice was common in
Judah under Ahaz. (Comp. Isaiah 1:29; Micah 5; Ezekiel 20:28.)
BUR...
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הָ עָ֗ם הַ מַּכְעִיסִ֥ים אֹותִ֛י עַל
־פָּנַ֖י
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CHAPTER XXV
A LAST INTERCESSION AND THE JUDGMENT
Isaiah 63:7 through Isaiah 66:1
WE might well have thought, that with the section we have been
considering the prophecy of Israel's Redemption had re...
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A SEED RESCUED FROM DESTRUCTION
Isaiah 65:1-12
The prophet now enumerates the reasons that forced the Lord to turn
aside from the Chosen People, and call in the Gentiles to occupy the
place and perfo...
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In this chapter we have a graphic description of the working of the
principle of discrimination, the sifting of the people by God. There
is first a contrast between the false and the true. The rebelli...
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A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that
sacrificeth in (d) gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of (e)
brick;
(d) Which were dedicated to idols.
(e) Meaning their altars...
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This is the lamentation of Jesus over his ancient people, the Jews.
And what a sad history of rebellion, from the beginning, when God
formed them into a Church, to the time of their rejecting the Lord...
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3._A people that provoketh me. _Here he describes and illustrates more
largely in what respects the Jews were rebellious against God. It was
because they had forsaken the command of God, and had pollu...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 64 AND 65.
The next two Chapter s give us a full revelation of the dealings of
God in answer to this appeal. First of all, God, through His grace,
had been so...
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A PEOPLE THAT PROVOKETH ME TO ANGER CONTINUALLY TO MY FACE,.... They
committed their sins openly, without any fear of the divine Being, and
in defiance of him, not at all awed by his omniscience and
o...
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A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that
sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
Ver. 3. _A people that provoketh me to my face._] As it were for the...
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_A people that provoketh me to anger_ That the Jews are the people
here intended, is without question: the prophet, speaking of the
calling of the Gentiles, upon their rejection, enumerates some of
th...
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THE LORD'S REFUSAL...
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a people that provoketh Me to anger continually to My face, with a
bold impertinence that challenged the wrath of the Lord; THAT
SACRIFICETH IN GARDENS, in groves, after the manner of the heathen,
AND...
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UPON ALTARS OF BRICK...
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1-7 The Gentiles came to seek God, and find him, because they were
first sought and found of him. Often he meets some thoughtless trifler
or profligate opposer, and says to him, Behold me; and a spee...
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A PEOPLE THAT PROVOKETH ME TO ANGER: that the Jews are the people here
intended is without question; the prophet, speaking of the calling of
the Gentiles upon their rejection, reckons up their sins wh...
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Isaiah 65:3 people H5971 anger H3707 (H8688) continually H8548 face
H6440 sacrifice H2076 (H8802) gardens H1593 incens
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THE MAJORITY OF HIS PEOPLE WILL REJECT HIM FOR THEIR IDOLS AND WILL
RECEIVE THEIR JUST PUNISHMENT (ISAIAH 65:2).
On the other hand those who do claim to be called by His name, but are
hypocritical, w...
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CONTENTS: Answer of Jehovah to remnant of Israel. Eternal blessing in
the renovated earth.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: Although Jehovah has long stretched forth His hand to a
disobedient and gainsa...
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Isaiah 65:4. _Which remain among the graves._ The LXX add, _dream._
Perhaps Jude had this text in his eye, when he calls the wicked
“filthy dreamers.”
_See Augustine's city of God. Which eat swine's f...
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_A people that provoked Me to anger_
OBSTINACY PROVOKES GOD’S WRATH
By rejecting His love with stiff-necked obstinacy, they have incurred
wrath, which, though long and patiently restrained, now burs...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 65:1 Though the people of God have unfaithful
sinners mixed among them now, he is eager to bring them into their
glorious eternal home. His eagerness is rejected by Jews but welc...
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SECTION XI.—GOD'S ANSWER TO THE EXILES' PRAYER (Isaiah 65:1.)
EXPOSITION
ISAIAH 65:1
ISRAEL'S SUFFERINGS
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Now God answers the prayer offered by the remnant of the people and He
said,
I am sought of them that asked not for me (Isaiah 65:1);
Here's the remnant of the Jewish people calling to God. "If You'...
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2 Kings 17:14; 2 Kings 22:17; Deuteronomy 32:16; Deuteronomy 32:21;...
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To my face — With the utmost impudence, not taking notice of God's
omnipresence, and omniscience. In gardens, &c. — Directly contrary
to the divine rule....