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Verse Isaiah 40:19. _AND CASTETH SILVER CHAINS _- "And forgeth for it
chains of silver."] For צורף _tsoreph_, the participle,
twenty-seven MSS., five ancient, and three editions, read צרף
_tsaraph_, p...
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THE WORKMAN - The Hebrew word denotes an artificer of any kind, and is
applied to one who engraved on wood or stone Exodus 28:2; to a workman
in iron, brass, stone, wood Exodus 35:35; Deuteronomy 27:1...
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II. THE LATER PROPHECIES OF COMFORT AND GLORY (40-66)
Like the first part this second part of Isaiah has three sections. The
three sections of the first part revealed the judgments to come upon
the Je...
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AN EXPANSION OF THE TEXT SUGGESTED IN ISAIAH 40:6.
Isaiah 40:12. The Majesty of God, in Whose Eyes the World is
Insignificant. God is the Creator, disposing of earth and heaven as
very small things. N...
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"To whom will ye liken God?" This question introduces the second
distinct theme of the argument, the folly of idolatry. Although the
prophet has in his mind the difficulties of Jews impressed by the
f...
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_melteth a graven image_ R.V. THE GRAVEN IMAGE, A WORKMAN MELTED IT.
The word _péṣel_means strictly a "graven image," but is used
several times as here of an image in general.
OVERLAYETH IT _with gol...
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TO WHOM THEN WILL YE LIKEN GOD?— _To whom,_ &c. or _what resemblance
will ye contrive for him?_ Isaiah 40:19. _The workman casts an image;
and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and worketh silver c...
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b. PERCEIVE THE NATURE OF THE LORD
TEXT: Isaiah 40:12-26
12
Who hath measured the water in the hollow of his hand, and meted out
heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a
me...
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The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it
over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
THE WORKMAN MELTETH A GRAVEN IMAGE. "Graven" - Hebrew, pecel (H6459);
rather, an image...
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ISRAEL'S RESTORATION FROM EXILE IN BABYLON
On the authorship and date of these Chapter s see Intro. According to
their subject matter, they fall naturally into three divisions of
almost equal length...
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A man may try to make his own god. But an *idol cannot live. And it
has no possible use. Its maker even has to fix it firmly in position.
Otherwise it will fall.
• The *Lord God is spirit. He is not...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 40
This chapter begins the second half of the Book of Isaiah.
• In CHAPTER...
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THE WORKMAN MELTETH... — The reign of Ahaz, not to speak of that of
Manasseh, must have supplied the prophet with his picture of the idol
factory not less fully than if he had lived in Babylon or Nine...
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הַ פֶּ֨סֶל֙ נָסַ֣ךְ חָרָ֔שׁ וְ צֹרֵ֖ף
בַּ
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CHAPTER I
THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...
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THE EVERLASTING GOD THE GIVER OF STRENGTH
Isaiah 40:18-31
Day changes to night, and as the twilight deepens, the stars come out
in their myriads, Isaiah 40:26. To the poetic eye of the watcher, they...
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We now commence the prophecies of peace, which also fall into three
divisions, dealing in turn with the purpose of peace (40-48), the
Prince of Peace (49-57), the program of peace (58-66).
The fist el...
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_Silver. Is God like these idols? (Haydock) --- Who knows not that the
workman is better than they are? (Wisdom xiii. 11.) (Calmet)_...
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Who but must feel humbled to the very dust of the earth, while
reading, in these verses, the sad state to which man is reduced by the
fall? We see man so prone to idolatry, that if the poor creature b...
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19._The carver prepares a graven image. _As public opinion has great
force, and everything that pleases the multitude passes for a law, the
Prophet fortifies believers against this error. These words...
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The first part of that which might be called the second book of Isaiah
extends from chapter 40 to the end of chapter 48. The Messiah is,
comparatively speaking, but little introduced here. It is rathe...
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THE WORKMAN MELTETH A GRAVEN IMAGE,.... Or, "the founder"; he melts
some sort of metal, as iron, brass, copper, or lead, which he casts
into a mould for an image, and afterwards graves, or gets it gra...
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The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it
over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
Ver. 19. _The workman melteth a graven image._] That may be afterward
graved and gilded o...
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_The workman melteth a graven image_ He melteth some base metal into a
mould which giveth it the form of an image, which afterward is graven
or carved to make it the more exact and pleasing likeness o...
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Jehovah the Supreme Ruler.
The connection of thought between this section and the foregoing one
is this, that the majesty and glory of God over against the idolatry
of the heathen nations guarantees...
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The workman melteth a graven image, casting it in molds, AND THE
GOLDSMITH SPREADETH IT OVER WITH GOLD, in a plating of the more
precious metal, AND CASTETH SILVER CHAINS, as ornaments on the figure....
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18-26 Whatever we esteem or love, fear or hope in, more than God,
that creature we make equal with God, though we do not make images or
worship them. He that is so poor, that he has scarcely a sacrif...
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THE WORKMAN MELTETH A GRAVEN IMAGE; he melteth some base metal into a
mould, which giveth it the form of an image, which afterwards is
graven or carved to make it more exact and amiable. Thus the imag...
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Isaiah 40:19 workman H2796 molds H5258 (H8804) image H6459 goldsmith
H6884 (H8802) overspreads H7554 (H8762) gold...
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THE GREATNESS OF GOD PROCLAIMED (ISAIAH 40:12).
And He will be able to do it because of His greatness. In this vital
passage the greatness of God to do What He declares He will do is now
revealed in...
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Isaiah 40:1. _Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God._
«They need it, and they shall have it. Mind, O my servants, that you
give it to them: Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God...
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Isaiah 40:1. _Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak
ye comfortably to Jerusalem._
The loss of comfort is no small loss. God would have his people happy.
They are in the best conditi...
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CONTENTS: Joyful prospect given to the people of God of the happiness
of coming redemption. Reproof for their despondencies.
CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Isaiah.
CONCLUSION: Nothing can be spoken mo...
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Isaiah 40:1. _Comfort ye, comfort ye my people._ What a sweet voice is
this to the church, after all her long afflictions. The words are
doubled, to designate the fulness of comfort in the pardon of s...
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_Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand?_
THE GRANDEUR OF GOD
The prophet’s notions of God are diffused through all the verses of
the text. The prophet’s design in describing the Dei...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 40:18 GOD alone is God. Isaiah sarcastically
describes the process of making an idol.
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PART III. ISAIAH'S LATER PROPHECIES (CH. 40-66.).
SECTION I. THE PEOPLE OF GOD COMFORTED IN TRIBULATION (Isaiah 40:1.).
EXPOSITION...
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But he's talking about a whole new message of God for the people as we
get into the new covenant of God. And so it is appropriate that this
new section of Isaiah begins with the word of the Lord decla...
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Exodus 32:2; Habakkuk 2:18; Habakkuk 2:19; Hosea 8:6; Isaiah 37:18;...
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Melteth — He melts metal into a mould, which afterwards is graven or
carved to make it more exact....