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Isaiah 43:3,4

ISAIAH—NOTE ON Isaiah 43:3 God’s people are secured by his love. I give Egypt as your ransom. Isaiah uses the idea of a ransom price, which is sometimes conveyed by “redeemed” (v. Isaiah 43:1; see note on 41:14). God will direct history for the sake of his people. “Egypt” refers to the exodus.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 43:3. _I GAVE EGYPT_ FOR _THY RANSOM_] This is commonly supposed to refer to the time of Sennacherib's invasion; who, when he was just ready to fall upon Jerusalem, soon after his enteri...

  • 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

    I AM THE LORD THY GOD. I Jehovah am thy God (Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4). Note the three titles. He was Israel's God by covenant (note the others in the next clause): THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL, in contrast...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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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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  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    43:3 Seba (e-22) Mero in African Ethiopia (Upper Egypt)....

  • 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

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֗י אֲנִי֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ קְדֹ֥ושׁ יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל...

  • 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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  • 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

    JEHOVAH'S LOVE PROTECTS AND GATHERS HIS PEOPLE...

  • 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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  • Sermon Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The chosen nation redeemed and restored. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Israel is God's peculiar people, distinguished from all others, and having the promise that they shall never h...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob_ THE TRUE RELATION OF ISRAEL TO JEHOVAH The main subject of this chapter is the true relation of Israel to Jehovah, and its application in the...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CHEERING WORDS FOR THE AFFLICTED Isaiah 43:1. _But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, &c._ These cheering words were addressed by God to His peculiar people the Jews; but He has a peculiar pe...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 43:1 A RENEWED PROMISE TO ISRAEL OF PROTECTION AND DELIVERANCE. Severe rebuke (Isaiah 42:18) is followed, as so often in I

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    But yet, God is going to restore them. Chapter 43 gets in the restoration. But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 14:9; Exodus 10:7; Hosea 13:4; Isaiah 30:11; Isaiah 41:

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    I gave Egypt — This was fulfilled when the king of Assyria, Esar — haddon, who designed to revenge his father's disgrace, upon the Jews, was diverted and directed by God to employ his forces against E...

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