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Isaiah 1:11

ISAIAH—NOTE ON Isaiah 1:11 sacrifices... burnt offerings. Isaiah criticizes the way people have disconnected the sacrifices from their proper purpose. Apparently they were treating their worship as a way of manipulating God. See note on Amos 4:4–5.

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See also Isaiah 1:11 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 1:11. _TO WHAT PURPOSE, C._ - "What have I to do."] The prophet Amos has expressed the same sentiments with great elegance: - "I hate, I despise your feasts And I will not delight in th...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS The reader will find that every chapter has been analyzed as to its contents. We have not made copious annotations, because the three lectures on the book of Isaiah as found a...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    This connects admirably with Isaiah 1:9. By a fine transition Isaiah intimates that it is no merit in the rulers which has averted Sodom's fate. Let these lawless and shameless administrators listen t...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 858 THE SERVICE WHICH ALONE IS PLEASING TO GOD Isaiah 1:10. Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha: To what purpose is the mu...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    TO WHAT PURPOSE, &C.— This is a strong remonstrance against the hypocritical services of the Jews; very plainly declaring to them, that all external services, administered with a bad heart, so far fro...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    b. JEHOVAH'S CORRECTION TEXT: Isaiah 1:10-17 10 Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. 11 What unto me is the multitude of your sac...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lam...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    I DELIGHT NOT] cp. Psalms 40:6; Psalms 51:16; Amos 5:21; Micah 6:7....

  • 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 1 WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT V1 Messages about Judah and *Jerus...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לָמָּה ־לִּ֤י רֹב ־זִבְחֵיכֶם֙ יֹאמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה...

  • 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

    I make no break in this address of the prophet. The whole forms but one sermon, and a most striking one it is. I beg the reader to remark with me the very pointed terms made use of by the man of God....

  • 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

    TO WHAT PURPOSE [IS] THE MULTITUDE OF YOUR SACRIFICES UNTO ME? SAITH THE LORD,.... These people, though they neglected the weightier matters of the law, and the more substantial duties of religion, as...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of la...

  • 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

    REBUKE OF HYPOCRITICAL WORSHIP...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    HE GOATS: _ Heb._ great he goats...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    10-15 Judea was desolate, and their cities burned. This awakened them to bring sacrifices and offerings, as if they would bribe God to remove the punishment, and give them leave to go on in their sin...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    TO WHAT PURPOSE? they are vain and useless, being neither accepted by me, nor beneficial to you. UNTO ME, who am a Spirit, and therefore cannot be satisfied with such carnal oblations, but expect to b...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 1:11 what H4100 multitude H7230 sacrifices H2077 Says H559 (H8799) LORD H3068 enough H7646 (H8804) offerings...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    WHAT GOD HAS AGAINST HIS PEOPLE (ISAIAH 1:10). GOD'S HATRED OF ANY OUTWARD RELIGION WHICH IS NOT MATCHED BY INNER RESPONSE. In these verses Isaiah stresses that there is little benefit in continuing...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 1:2. _Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his ma...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 1:1. _The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah._ During the time in which Isaiah prop...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    This is a chapter which, I think, teaches an important lesson to those of us who desire the salvation of men, for it shows us how God sets about that work. He begins by exhibiting the sinner's sin to...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Charge against Israel for their ingratitude and degeneration. Call to repentance and reformation. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: The backslidings of those who have professed relations...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken_ GOD FINDS VINDICATION IN NATURE I well remember two funerals going out of my house within a few brief months during my residence in...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    The book of Isaiah is a marvelous book of prophecy. Of course, it is the longest book of prophecy in the Bible, and it would seem that God gave to Isaiah a clearer vision of the redemptive work of Jes...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 15:22; Amos 5:21; Isaiah 66:3; Jeremiah 6:20; Jeremiah 7:21;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    To me — Who am a spirit, and therefore cannot be satisfied with such carnal oblations, but expect to have your hearts and lives, as well as your bodies and sacrifices, presented unto me. Blood — He me...

  • When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties, Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe, 1960

    Did the prophet Isaiah disavow the sacrificial system of Moses? (See comments on Hosea 6:6)...

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