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Matthew Henry Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 66 - Introduction

* God looks at the heart, and vengeance is threatened for guilt. (1-4) The increase of the church, when Jew and Gentile shall be gathered to the Redeemer. (5-14) Every enemy of the church shall be destroyed, and the final ruin of ungodly men shall be seen. (15-24)

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See also Isaiah 66 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    It is generally supposed that this chapter is a continuation of the subject of the foregoing (Lowth). The general design is to reprove the hypocritical portion of the nation, and to comfort the pious...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH 65-66. These Chapter s contain, loosely strung together, a number of promises of reward to the righteous and threats of doom to the faithless....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Eternal Blessedness of the True Israel; the Doom of the Apostates This chapter continues the antithesis that runs through ch. 65, carrying it onward to its eschatological issues. The connexion of...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _THE GLORIOUS GOD WILL BE SERVED IN HUMBLE SINCERITY: HE COMFORTETH THE HUMBLE WITH THE MARVELLOUS GENERATION, AND WITH THE GRACIOUS BENEFITS OF THE CHURCH. GOD'S SEVERE JUDGMENTS AGAINST THE WICKED....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    EXAMINATION Chapter S SIXTY THROUGH SIXTY-SIX DEFINITION (Define the following words or phrases as they were discussed in the comments.) 1. _wealth_ of the nations 8. _covenant_ 2. _Spirit_ up...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:1 (d-0) (The title of this book, 'Isaiah'), Meaning, 'Salvation of Jah.' see Psalms 68:4 ....

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 66 This chapter treats of the same things as the former, the rejection of the unbelieving Jews, and the regard had to them that did believe; the conversion of that people in th...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    CHAPTER 66 THE FINAL TRIUMPH. The book ends where it began in facing men up to Yahweh, and denouncing their formality in religious ritual. We note that like the first five Chapter s all the emphasis...

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