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Isaiah 46:6,7

ISAIAH—NOTE ON Isaiah 46:6 Created gods are dependent on their creators. they carry it. If a god has to be carried, how can it help its worshipers? it cannot move. If a god cannot move, how can it intervene?

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See also Isaiah 46:6,7 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 46 1. _Babylon Is to Fall The Babylonian idols carried by the beasts (Isaiah 46:1)_ 2. _How Jehovah carries His people (Isaiah 46:3)_ 3. _The divine reproach (Isaiah 46:5)_ 4. A ravenous bird...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE HELPLESS PLIGHT OF BABYLON'S GODS CONTRASTED WITH THE SAVING MIGHT OF YAHWEH. Isaiah 46:1 f. In vision the prophet sees the images of Babylon's gods (two of the most prominent are named), taken fr...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    GOD. Hebrew El. App-4....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    TO WHOM WILL YE LIKEN ME— We have in these verses the conviction itself, exhibiting the vanity of idolatry. The argument is similar to that in chap. Isaiah 40:18, &c. and Isaiah 44:12, &c. except that...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    3. SOVEREIGN OVER NATIONS, Chapter S 46 - 47 a. CONDEMNING THEIR GODS TEXT: Isaiah 46:1-13 1 Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth; their idols are upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: the things that ye...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship. THEY LAVISH GOLD OUT OF THE BAG ... AND HIRE A GOL...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CONTRAST BETWEEN JEHOVAH AND THE DEITIES OF BABYLON 1, 2. The idols of Babylon will be borne away by the conquerors amongst the spoil, the gods being powerless to save their images. I. Bel] the c...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 46 THE END FOR BABYLON’S GODS V1 The chief gods of Babylon were called Be...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    An *idol can be very expensive to make. But its maker has completely wasted his money. No *idol can ever do anything to help its owner. GOD’S PLANS NEVER FAIL V8 ‘Remember this, you people who do n...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הַ זָּלִ֤ים זָהָב֙ מִ כִּ֔יס וְ כֶ֖סֶף

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Isaiah 44:1; Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 46:1; Isaiah 47:1; Isaiah 48:1...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    GOD'S SALVATION SHALL NOT TARRY Isaiah 46:1-13 Here is a startling contrast! Babylon is broken up. An invading army of stern monotheists have slain the idolatrous priests at their altars and are enga...

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

    This chapter and the next contain the prophecy of the fall of Babylon. This one describes the failure of the gods. It opens with a graphic picture of the idols being hurried away for safety, carried o...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    6._Lavishing gold out of bags. _The Prophet had formerly said this, and he now repeats it, in order to fix this doctrine more and more deeply on the hearts of men; for superstition has struck its root...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 46, 47, AND 48. In Chapter s 46, 47, the application is made to Babylon and to her idols, but still as pleading for Israel as beloved of God; for governmental...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEY LAVISH GOLD OUT OF THE BAG,.... As if it was of no value and account; that is, the Heathen idolaters, some of them, who are excessively devoted to idolatry; these, being rich, take out their bags...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, [and] hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship. Ver. 6. _They lavish gold out of the bag._] They s...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    Isa. 46:1-7. Bel and Nebo, the gods of Babylon, were first carried by men on their shoulders, verse 7, and then afterwards when Babylon was destroyed they were carried by the beasts. When the Medes an...

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

    _To whom will you liken me_, &c. If you be tempted at any time to exchange me for an idol, do me and yourselves the right seriously to consider, whether you can find another god, who will be more able...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    They lavish gold out of the bag, paying it out in large quantities, or producing it in heaps as material for the craftsman, AND WEIGH SILVER IN THE BALANCE, cheerfully opening their treasures, AND HIR...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE FALL OF BABYLON'S IDOLS...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    5-13 Here the folly of those who made idols, and then prayed to them, is exposed. How does the profuseness of idolaters shame the niggardliness of many who call themselves God's servants, but are for...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    MAKETH IT A GOD; let us suppose, a god made with the greatest cost and art....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 46:6 lavish H2107 (H8801) gold H2091 bag H3599 weigh H8254 (H8799) silver H3701 scales H7070 hire...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    WHILE THE GODS OF THE NATIONS HAVE TO BE BORNE BY MAN AND BEAST, YAHWEH HIMSELF IN CONTRAST BEARS HIS PEOPLE (ISAIAH 46:3). Isaiah 46:3 “Listen to me, O house of Jacob, And all the remnant of the h...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Israel exhorted to remember the power of God and powerlessness of idols. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: False gods will certainly fail the worshippers when they have most need of them. It is...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 46:1. _Bel_ or Baal. See on Numbers 32:38. It is understood that the name is derived from Belus; the history is involved in obscurity. The priests every night prepared him a voluptuous supper,...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    GOD INCOMPARABLE Isaiah 46:5. _To whom then will ye liken Me? &c._ I. THE DOCTRINE TAUGHT BY THE PROPHET. Evidently that God is incomparable. He is so— 1. _In the splendour of His perfections_. He i...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 46:1, ISAIAH 46:2 THE FALL OF THE GODS OF BABYLON. Among the direct consequences of the victories of Cyrus will be

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Isaiah chapter 46. Now in Isaiah 46:1-13 we get a short contrast between God, the true and the living eternal God that created the heavens and the earth, and the false gods that these people were wors...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 12:28; Acts 17:29; Daniel 3:5; Exodus 32:2; Habakkuk 2:18;...

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