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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Isaiah 1:31

The strong — Your idols, which you think to be strong and able to defend you. As tow — Shall be as suddenly and easily, consumed by my judgments, as tow is by fire. The maker — Of the idol, who can neither save himself nor his workmanship.

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See also Isaiah 1:31 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE MAKER OF IT AS A SPARK. — Better, _his work as a spark._ The sin itself becomes the instrument of destruction. The mighty and the proud, who were foremost in the work of idolatry, and who did not...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הָיָ֤ה הֶ חָסֹן֙ לִ נְעֹ֔רֶת וּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    31._And your God _(34) _shall be as tow _The Hebrew word חסן (_chason_) signifies strong: and though it is here applied to God, still it retains its signification, as if he had said, “That god who was...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Lord's Complaint against Jerusalem...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    AND THE MAKER: Or, and his work...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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