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Isaiah 56:8

The Lord God … saith Saith the Lord Jehovah &c. The formula usually followsthe sentence to which it refers; here it introduces it, as ch. Isaiah 1:24; Zechariah 12:1; Psalms 110:1.

which gathereth the dispersed of Israel Cf. ch. Isaiah 11:12; Psalms 147:2.

Yet will I gatherothers &c. Lit. "I will yet further gather to him, to his gathered ones." "His gathered ones" is the antithesis to the "dispersed" above. The language certainly suggests (though it may not absolutely prove) that a partial gathering has taken place: the promise is that yet more shall be gathered, and, amongst these, men from "all peoples."

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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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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    נְאֻם֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה מְקַבֵּ֖ץ נִדְחֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל...

  • 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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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • 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

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  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    BESIDES: _ Heb._ to his gathered...

  • 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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  • 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    OTHERS TO BE GATHERED Isaiah 56:8. _The Lord God which gathereth the outcasts of Israel, &c._ God’s work is now that of gathering, &c. I. ENCOURAGEMENT TO THOSE WHO SEEK THE LORD. Note well the inst...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 56:1 AN EXHORTATION TO OBSERVE THE LAW, ESPECIALLY THE LAW OF THE SABBATH, COMBINED WITH PROMISES

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ephesians 1:10; Ephesians 2:14; Genesis 49:10; Hosea 1:11; Isaiah

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The Lord — Who will gather to himself, and bring into their own land, those that are cast out of their own land. Yet — I will make a far more comprehensive gathering of the Gentiles....

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