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Isaiah 65:11

But ye are they that forsake the Lord, that forget My holy mountain, the place of His habitation, where He was worshiped, that prepare a table for that troop, for Gad, the idol of happiness and good fortune, and that furnish the drink-offering unto that number, to Meni, who may have been the corresponding goddess. The exiles had been addicted to the service of these idols during their captivity at Babylon amid had brought the idolatrous practices connected with their cult back with them to Judea, as the prophet saw in spirit.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 65:11. _THAT PREPARE A TABLE FOR THAT TROOP_ - "Who set in order a table for Gad"] The disquisitions and conjectures of the learned concerning Gad and Meni are infinite and uncertain: pe...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BUT YE ARE THEY THAT FORSAKE THE LORD - Or rather, ‘Ye who forsake Yahweh, and who forget my holy mountain, I will number to the sword.’ The design of this verse is to remind them of their idolatries,...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL INHERIT THE LAND, BUT THEIR OPPONENTS SHALL BE SLAUGHTERED. Yahweh says, Even as the vintagers say when they see a cluster with only a few sound grapes in it, - Destroy it not, for...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THAT TROOP. Hebrew Gad, the well-known Syrian god of "Fate". FURNISH THE DRINK OFFERING. fill up the MIXED WINE. Hebrew. _mimsak._ App-27. Compare Jeremiah 7:18. THAT NUMBER. Hebrew. _m'ni._ Same a...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A renewed threat against the apostates, with a further allusion to their idolatry. _But ye are they that forsake &c._ Render: BUT AS FOR YOU THAT FORSAKE JEHOVAH (ch. Isaiah 1:4) &c. The whole verse...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BUT YE ARE THEY THAT FORSAKE THE LORD, &C.— _But,_ &c. _Who prepare a table for Gad_ [_the sun_], _and serve_ or _fill up a drink-offering to Meni_ [_the moon_]. The prophet here renews his reproach a...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    E. REFINING OF ZION, CHAPTER 65 1. CLEANSED TEXT: Isaiah 65:1-12 1 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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number. BUT YE (ARE) THEY THAT ... FORGET MY...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    65:11 Gad, (c-16) Fortune, or planet Jupiter. Meni. (d-23) Number, or Fate, or planet Venus....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    YE _are_ THEY THAT] RV 'ye that.' PREPARE A TABLE] alluding to rites such as are described in Jeremiah 7:18. THAT TROOP] Heb. _Gad,_ i.e. 'Fortune' (RV): cp. Joshua 11:17. FURNISH, etc.] 'fill up ming...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    False gods cannot decide the future of people who *worship them. The *Lord will make that decision. He alone is in complete control. And the *Lord’s judgement will be severe against those that deny hi...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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-...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THAT FORGET MY HOLY MOUNTAIN... — The words imply, like Isaiah 65:3, the abandonment of the worship of the Temple for a heathen ritual, but those that follow point, it will be seen, to Canaanite rathe...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ אַתֶּם֙ עֹזְבֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה הַ שְּׁכֵחִ֖ים אֶ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    But ye [are] they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that (o) troop, and that furnish the drink offering to that number. (o) By the multitude and number he...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Fortune. Hebrew, "Gad," the sun, Genesis xxx. 11. --- Upon it. Symmachus, "without me." Septuagint, "to fortune." Hebrew, "to Meni," the moon, or Queen of heaven, Jeremias vii. 18., and xliv. 17. (Ca...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    These verses contain an awful confirmation of what every day's experience continues to prove, that all are not Israel, which are of Israel, Romans 9:6. In every Church, under every ordinance, the same...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    11._But ye forsakers of Jehovah, who forget the mountain of my holiness. _That hypocrites may not abuse these promises, or think that what is said about the restoration of the people relates to them,...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT YE ARE THEY THAT FORSAKE THE LORD,.... Here the Lord returns to the body of the people again, the unbelievers and rejecters of the Messiah, who turned away from him, would not hear his doctrine, n...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But ye [are] they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number. Ver. 11. _But ye are they that forsak...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _But_, &c. The prophet now returns to address his discourse to the sinners and apostates, whom he had reproved and threatened, (Isaiah 65:2,) and renews his charge against them for forsaking the Lord,...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    TROOP: Or, Gad NUMBER: Or, Meni...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    11-16 Here the different states of the godly and wicked, of the Jews who believed, and of those who persisted in unbelief, are set against one another. They prepared a table for that troop of deities...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Do not you that are idolaters think that these promises belong to you, YE ARE THEY THAT FORSAKE THE LORD, that is, the way of the Lord; it is a phrase opposed to _a walking with God_. Our walking with...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 65:11 forsake H5800 (H8802) LORD H3068 forget H7913 holy H6944 mountain H2022 prepare H6186 (H8802) table...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    A REMNANT WILL BE SAVED, BUT LARGE NUMBERS MUST FIRST FACE JUDGMENT (ISAIAH 65:8). During his inaugural call (chapter 6) Isaiah had been warned that the people of Judah/Israel would go through refinem...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _That prepare a table for that troop_ LUCK AND FORTUNE Among Orientals the planets Jupiter and Venus were worshipped as the Larger and the Lesser Luck. They were worshipped as Merodach and Istar amo...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION XI.—GOD'S ANSWER TO THE EXILES' PRAYER (Isaiah 65:1.) EXPOSITION ISAIAH 65:1 ISRAEL'S SUFFERINGS

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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'...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 28:9; 1 Corinthians 10:20; 1 Corinthians 10:21; Deuteronomy 29:25;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Forget — To forget God's holy mountains, signifies not to regard the true worship of God. God calls Zion his holy mountain. That troop — The idols of the ten tribes, and of the Assyrians, were a troop...

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