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Isaiah 66:1

The *Lord uses picture language to teach an important lesson. Solomon made a great *Temple for God. But even Solomon realised that nobody could ever force God to stay inside man-made limits. Even a beautiful *Temple or a magnificent palace is not sufficient for God. (See 1 Kings 8:27; see also Stephen’s defence in Acts 7:48-50.) People cannot control God. And they cannot choose the limits for his activity. Many might like to do so – for their own purposes!

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    CHAPTER LXVI _This chapter treats of the same subject with the foregoing._ _God, by his prophet, tells the Jews, who valued themselves much_ _on their temple and pompous worship, that the Most High...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE HEAVEN IS MY THRONE - (See the notes at Isaiah 57:15). Here he is represented as having his seat or throne there. He speaks as a king. heaven is the place where he holds his court; from where he d...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 66 The Finale: The Two Classes and the Prophecy of Isaiah in a Retrospect 1. _The apostates and their wicked worship (Isaiah 66:1) _ 2. _The remnant suffering and encouraged (Isaiah 66:5) _ 3...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH 66. Here divisions are hard to define. The theme the coming punishment of the apostates and the coming glory of the pious is pursued now on one side, now on the other. ISAIAH 66:1. AN ATTACK O...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THUS SAITH THE LORD. See App-82. THE HEAVEN, &C _._ Quoted in Acts 7:49. Compare 1 Kings 8:27; 2 Chronicles 6:18. THE. this. Hebrew. _zeh_. YE: i.e. the future builders of the ho

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jehovah, who fills and has created heaven and earth, "dwelleth not in temples made with hands." Comp. the citation in Acts 7:48 ff., also 1 Kings 8:27; Jeremiah 23:24. _The heaven_is _my throne_...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THUS SAITH THE LORD, &C.— God here makes use of a sublime discourse, suitable to his Majesty, to reach the genuine sense whereof we must consider it as directed to the hypocrites, who supposed the car...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    F. EPILOGUE, CHAPTER 66 1. BURIAL OF OLD ZION TEXT: Isaiah 66:1-6 1 Thus saith Jehovah, Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what manner of house will ye build unto me? and what plac...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? This closing chapter is the summary Isaiah's...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1. WHERE, etc.] RV 'what manner of house.. what place shall be my rest.' The v. is a strong rebuke of such as, without a really religious spirit, idly trusted in the inviolability of Zion, and the pro...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    LXVI. (1) THE HEAVEN IS MY THRONE... — We are left to conjecture the historical starting-point of this utterance of a Divine truth. Was the prophet condemning in advance the restoration of the temple...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה הַ שָּׁמַ֣יִם כִּסְאִ֔י...

  • 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

    GOD'S PEOPLE MADE A BLESSING Isaiah 66:1-14 The prophet forecasts the advent of a new day, when places and rites would be comparatively unimportant compared with the condition of the heart, Isaiah 66...

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

    This last chapter is confessedly difficult of interpretation. In it the prophet seems to look beyond all that he has previously described, and to deal with destiny. He first announces anew the fact of...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Thus saith the LORD, The (a) heaven [is] my throne, and the earth [is] my footstool: where [is] the house that ye build to me? and where [is] the place of my rest? (a) My majesty is so great, that it...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    House. This is a prophecy that the temple should be cast off. (Challoner) --- Isaias alludes to the return of the captives, as to a figure of the Church. They had flattered themselves with the idea of...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Stephen, in his address to the Jewish Council, made a quotation from hence, and in direct application, to their characters. But what a very blessed and condescending way was this, of Jehovah's speakin...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    CONTENTS The Prophet is here come to the close of his Prophetical writings, and a blessed close he makes. The Chapter seems to be but the continuation of the same subject as the former; full of conso...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    1._This saith Jehovah. _This discourse is different from the preceding one; for here the Prophet exclaims against the Jews, who, puffed up with vain confidence in the sacrifices and the temple, indulg...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 66 speaks of the judgment that introduces it, and consequently gives us more historical details. The temple is rebuilt in Jerusalem (Isaiah 66:6), but Jehovah does not own it, man alone being...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THUS SAITH THE LORD, THE HEAVEN IS MY THRONE,.... The third heaven, the heaven of heavens, where angels and glorified saints are, and some in bodies, as Enoch and Elijah, and where now Christ is in hu...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _Thus saith the LORD, The heaven [is] my throne, and the earth [is] my footstool: where [is] the house that ye build unto me? and where [is] the place of my rest?_ Ver. 1. _Thus saith the Lard._] The...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    Isa. 66:1. "The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool." The mercy-seat in the Temple is no longer God's throne; but heaven and the ark and temple are no longer God's footstool, as they us...

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

    _Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne_ That is, the throne of my glory and government; the place where I most manifest my power, and show myself in my majesty. Hence we are taught to pray, _Ou...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool, a majestic declaration of His almighty power and rule; WHERE IS THE HOUSE THAT YE BUILD UNTO ME, AND WHERE IS THE PLACE OF...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE ABOMINATIONS OF A DEAD WORSHIP AND THE BIRTH OF THE NEW CHURCH...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-4 The Jews gloried much in their temple. But what satisfaction can the Eternal Mind take in a house made with men's hands? God has a heaven and an earth of his own making, and temples of man's maki...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    ISAIAH CHAPTER 66 God is served with the Spirit, and not by ceremonies, ISAIAH 66:1, the wonderful birth and benefits of the gospel church, ISAIAH 66:5. Severe judgments against the wicked, ISAIAH 66:...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 66:1 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 Heaven H8064 throne H3678 earth H776 footstool H7272 H1916 house...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE EXCEEDING GREATNESS OF GOD (ISAIAH 66:1 A). Isaiah 66:1 ‘Thus says Yahweh, “The heaven is my throne, And the earth is my footstool, What manner of house will you build for me? And what place...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Blessings of the coming universal Kingdom. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Following the day of Christ's vengeance the sorrows of Israel will be turned into abundant joys. All the Gen...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 66:1. _The heaven is my throne._ This chapter applies to Isaiah's time, as well as to future times; and though the Lord rejected the impure worship of the temple, yet he would dwell with the co...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is My throne_ THE ETERNAL BLESSEDNESS OF THE TRUE ISRAEL; THE DOOM OF THE APOSTATES This chapter continues the antithesis that runs through chap. 65., carrying it o...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 66:1 Though the worship of God is violated now, in the future falsehood will be judged, true worship will spread, and God will be honored forever. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE OBJECTS OF THE DIVINE FAVOUR Isaiah 66:1. _Thus saith the_ LORD, _the heaven is My throne, &c._ In opposition to their formality, &c., a great truth is here asserted; viz.: That the special objec...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION XII.—FINAL THREATENINGS AND PROMISES (Isaiah 66:1.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 66:1 THE UNGODLY EXILES REBUKED

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that you build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? (Isaiah 66:1) They're going to build a new te...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 28:2; 1 Kings 8:27; 2 Chronicles 6:18; 2 Samuel 7:5;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The heaven — The highest heaven, is the place where I shew myself in my majesty. So Psalms 11:4, Psalms 103:19; Matthew 5:34. Hence we are taught to pray; our father which art in heaven. And the earth...

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