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Isaiah 6:4

And the posts of the door moved

The shaken temple

It is stated that, at a musical festival which was held in Westminster Abbey on one occasion, the strains were so powerful in a certain part of the performance, that the whole building was shaken.

So it was on this occasion. The sacred edifice trembled at the presence of God, and at the voice of those who were engaged in His praise.

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See also Isaiah 6:4 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND THE POSTS OF THE DOOR - Margin, ‘Thresholds.’ There is some difficulty in the Hebrew here, but the meaning of the expression is sufficiently apparent. It means that there was a tremour, or concuss...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 6 The Prophet's Vision and New Commission 1. _The time of the vision (Isaiah 6:1)_ 2. _Jehovah of hosts (Isaiah 6:2)_ 3. _The prophet's woe (Isaiah 6:5)_ 4. The cleansing ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH 6. THE CALL OF ISAIAH. This chapter contains Isaiah's own account of his call to the prophetic office. Presumably it was written down some time after the event, but the interval need not have b...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jehovah appears to the prophet in human form, and as a King, seated on a throne, surrounded by ministering servants who sing His praise (cf. 1 Kings 22:19 ff.). The scene is the Temple (Isaiah 6:1), w...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the posts of the door moved_ THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE THRESHOLDS SHOOK (R.V.). _was filled_( BEGAN TO FILL) with _smoke_ The smoke symbolises the "dark side of Jehovah's self-manifestation" (Revelation...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CHAPTER SIX D. ILLUMINATION FROM THE ALMIGHTY Isaiah 6:1-13 1. THE PROPHET SEES GOD Isaiah 6:1-7 a. THE GLORY TEXT: Isaiah 6:1-4 1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. THE POSTS OF THE DOOR MOVED AT THE VOICE - the foundations of the thresholds (Maurer). The lint...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PROPHET'S CALL This c., which recounts the prophet's call and commission, would stand first in a chronological arrangement of the book. The opening words remind us of the vision of Micaiah (1 King...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE POSTS OF THE DOOR MOVED] RV 'the foundations of the thresholds were moved.' SMOKE] a symbol of the divine presence, as in Exodus 19:9; Exodus 19:18; 1 Kings 8:10;...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 6 GOD CALLS ISAIAH V1 In the year when King Uzziah died, I s...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE POSTS OF THE DOOR. — Better, _the foundations of the threshold._ The words seem to point to the prophet’s position as in front of the Holy of holies. THE HOUSE WAS FILLED WITH SMOKE. — The vision...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יָּנֻ֨עוּ֙ אַמֹּ֣ות הַ סִּפִּ֔ים מִ קֹּ֖ול

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER IV ISAIAH'S CALL AND CONSECRATION 740 B.C. written 735? or 727? Isaiah 6:1 IT has been already remarked that in chapter 6 we should find no other truths than those which have been unfolded...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A CALL TO HEROIC SERVICE Isaiah 6:1-13 Kings die; Jesus lives. See John 12:41. We are here reminded of Acts 22:17-18. How great the contrast between the worship of these seraphim in the Unseen-Holy...

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

    We now begin the second part of the first circle of prophecy, which contains the prophecies during the reigns of Jotham and Ahaz. When Uzziah died, Isaiah was called to the exercise of a larger minist...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And the posts of the door (k) moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. (k) Which was to confirm the prophet, that it was not the voice of man: and by the smoke was s...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Of him. Septuagint, "them," (Haydock) the Seraphim signifying that the veil was removed by the death of Christ, (Theodoret) or that the people should be led into captivity, as a Jew explained it to S...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    From the light thrown upon this blessed vision, in the other parts of scripture, as before shown, and all evidently, and plainly directed to prove that it is the person of Christ, who manifested himse...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    4._And the lintels of the posts were moved. _This noise was an indication that it was not a human voice which the Prophet had heard; for no mortal man has a voice so powerful as to be capable of makin...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    But it was in the counsels of God that His presence should be established in glory in the midst of His people, and this will be accomplished in Christ at the end of the age. Hence the testimony of the...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THE POSTS OF THE DOOR MOVED AT THE VOICE OF HIM THAT CRIED,.... That is, the posts of the door of the temple, as the Targum adds, where this vision was seen, as represented to the prophet. Some th...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. Ver. 4. _And the posts of the door were moved._] Presently upon the angels' hymn this occured, wit...

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

    _And the posts of the door moved_ Together with the door itself. Such violent motions were commonly tokens of God's anger. And here, it seems, this concussion of the temple was intended to signify God...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the posts of the door, the foundations of the sills, or thresholds, the heavenly temple with its portals down to the lowest foundation, MOVED AT THE VOICE OF HIM THAT CRIED, the powerful sound of...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JEHOVAH REVEALED IN HIS GLORY...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    door: _ Heb._ thresholds...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-8 In this figurative vision, the temple is thrown open to view, even to the most holy place. The prophet, standing outside the temple, sees the Divine Presence seated on the mercy-seat, raised over...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE POSTS OF THE DOOR, together with the door itself, as if the door was to be removed, and the temple thereby to be exposed to the view and rapine of profane persons. Such violent motions were common...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 6:4 posts H520 door H5592 shaken H5128 (H8799) voice H6963 out H7121 (H8802) house H1004 filled...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE VISION OF GOD (ISAIAH 6:1). At the heart of Isaiah's ministry lies this vision of God. In it he sees the glory of God, and yet he makes no attempt to describe God Himself, probably because what h...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 6:1 I. Consider what the prophet saw. He sees Jehovah as Ruler, Governor, King; He is upon a throne, high and lifted up. It is the throne of absolute sovereignty: of resistless, questionless su...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 6:2 I. The seraphim, or burning ones these strange mystic creatures whom Isaiah beheld hovering above Jehovah's throne, and whose resounding cries pierced his soul. The first thing that strikes...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 6:1. _In the year that King Uzziah died_ You remember him, that leprous king, that king who had thrust himself into the priests' office, and was smitten of leprosy, and shut up in a separate h...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 6:1. In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Isaiah's transforming vision and his new commission. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: Those who are to teach others the knowledge of God must themselves have the vision of God. Those a...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    The excellence of the prophet's labours during the war with Pekah and Rezin, seems to be the cause why this vision occupies but a secondary place. God gave it to console the church on the death of so...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 6:4 WOE IS ME! For the first time in the book, Isaiah speaks. His word is a lament over his own sinful condition. He admits that he has UNCLEAN LIPS (for the meani

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 6:1 God Redefines the Future of His People: “Your Guilt Is Taken Away.” God’s grace will preserve a remnant of his people. They will enjoy his eternal messianic kingdom and will...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE SERAPHIM AND THEIR SONG Isaiah 6:2. _And above it stood the seraphim, &c._ I. THE SERAPHIM.—The Scriptures disclose to us the fact that there is a spiritual world, vast and variously populated, s...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    REVELATIONS OF GOD Isaiah 6:1. _In the year that King Uzziah died I saw, &c._ [700] [700] The scene of the Vision is the Temple, and its features will have been the same whether we suppose them to ha...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    ISAIAH’S VISION Isaiah 6:1. _In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord, &c._ [712] [712] God is invisible; yet in that heavenly world in which He has His special and eternal residence He...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE PROPHET’S CALL Isaiah 6:1. _In the year that King Uzziah died, &c._ We have here the history of Isaiah’s call to his great life-work. Perhaps in a modern biography this chapter would have been pl...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION III. ISAIAH'S VISION OF GOD UPON HIS THRONE (Isaiah 6:1.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 6:1 THE VISION

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    By Chuck Smith Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Isaiah, chapter 6, as Isaiah records for us his commissioning by God for his ministry. Now you remember in chapter 1 that Isaiah tells us that his tim...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 8:10; 2 Chronicles 5:13; 2 Chronicles 5:14; 2 Chronicles 6:1;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE LORD HIGH AND LIFTED UP Isaiah 6:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There is a twofold vision suggested in the first verse of our study. "In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a t...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The posts — Together with the door itself. Such violent motions were commonly tokens of God's anger. Smoak — Which elsewhere is a token of God's presence and acceptance, but here of his anger....

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