that troop. Hebrew Gad, the well-known Syrian god of "Fate".
furnish the drink offering. fill up the
mixed wine. Hebrew. mimsak. App-27. Compare Jeremiah 7:18.
that number. Hebrew. m'ni. Same as the god Manu (= Destiny) of the Assyrian inscriptions.
Verse Isaiah 65:11. _THAT PREPARE A TABLE FOR THAT TROOP_ - "Who set in order a table for Gad"] The disquisitions and conjectures of the learned concerning Gad and Meni are infinite and uncertain: pe...
BUT YE ARE THEY THAT FORSAKE THE LORD - Or rather, ‘Ye who forsake Yahweh, and who forget my holy mountain, I will number to the sword.’ The design of this verse is to remind them of their idolatries,...
CHAPTER 65 Jehovah's Answer: The Rebellious and Their Judgment, the Faithful and Their Blessings 1. _The divine rebuke to the apostates (Isaiah 65:1) _ 2. _The elect seed (Isaiah 65:9) _ 3. The judg...
THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL INHERIT THE LAND, BUT THEIR OPPONENTS SHALL BE SLAUGHTERED. Yahweh says, Even as the vintagers say when they see a cluster with only a few sound grapes in it, - Destroy it not, for...
A renewed threat against the apostates, with a further allusion to their idolatry. _But ye are they that forsake &c._ Render: BUT AS FOR YOU THAT FORSAKE JEHOVAH (ch. Isaiah 1:4) &c. The whole verse...
BUT YE ARE THEY THAT FORSAKE THE LORD, &C.— _But,_ &c. _Who prepare a table for Gad_ [_the sun_], _and serve_ or _fill up a drink-offering to Meni_ [_the moon_]. The prophet here renews his reproach a...
E. REFINING OF ZION, CHAPTER 65 1. CLEANSED TEXT: Isaiah 65:1-12 1 I am inquired of by them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation...
But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number. BUT YE (ARE) THEY THAT ... FORGET MY...
65:11 Gad, (c-16) Fortune, or planet Jupiter. Meni. (d-23) Number, or Fate, or planet Venus....
1. Render, 'I have offered answers to those who asked not; I have been at hand to those who sought me not.. a nation that hath not called upon my name.' The v. refers to the Israelites who neglected J...
YE _are_ THEY THAT] RV 'ye that.' PREPARE A TABLE] alluding to rites such as are described in Jeremiah 7:18. THAT TROOP] Heb. _Gad,_ i.e. 'Fortune' (RV): cp. Joshua 11:17. FURNISH, etc.] 'fill up ming...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 65 CHAPTER S 65-66 refer to subjects in CHAPTER S 1-4. • In chapter 2:1-...
False gods cannot decide the future of people who *worship them. The *Lord will make that decision. He alone is in complete control. And the *Lord’s judgement will be severe against those that deny hi...
THAT FORGET MY HOLY MOUNTAIN... — The words imply, like Isaiah 65:3, the abandonment of the worship of the Temple for a heathen ritual, but those that follow point, it will be seen, to Canaanite rathe...
וְ אַתֶּם֙ עֹזְבֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה הַ שְּׁכֵחִ֖ים אֶ
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...
A SEED RESCUED FROM DESTRUCTION Isaiah 65:1-12 The prophet now enumerates the reasons that forced the Lord to turn aside from the Chosen People, and call in the Gentiles to occupy the place and perfo...
In this chapter we have a graphic description of the working of the principle of discrimination, the sifting of the people by God. There is first a contrast between the false and the true. The rebelli...
But ye [are] they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that (o) troop, and that furnish the drink offering to that number. (o) By the multitude and number he...
_Fortune. Hebrew, "Gad," the sun, Genesis xxx. 11. --- Upon it. Symmachus, "without me." Septuagint, "to fortune." Hebrew, "to Meni," the moon, or Queen of heaven, Jeremias vii. 18., and xliv. 17. (Ca...
These verses contain an awful confirmation of what every day's experience continues to prove, that all are not Israel, which are of Israel, Romans 9:6. In every Church, under every ordinance, the same...
11._But ye forsakers of Jehovah, who forget the mountain of my holiness. _That hypocrites may not abuse these promises, or think that what is said about the restoration of the people relates to them,...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 64 AND 65. The next two Chapter s give us a full revelation of the dealings of God in answer to this appeal. First of all, God, through His grace, had been so...
BUT YE ARE THEY THAT FORSAKE THE LORD,.... Here the Lord returns to the body of the people again, the unbelievers and rejecters of the Messiah, who turned away from him, would not hear his doctrine, n...
But ye [are] they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number. Ver. 11. _But ye are they that forsak...
_But_, &c. The prophet now returns to address his discourse to the sinners and apostates, whom he had reproved and threatened, (Isaiah 65:2,) and renews his charge against them for forsaking the Lord,...
But ye are they that forsake the Lord, that forget My holy mountain, the place of His habitation, where He was worshiped, THAT PREPARE A TABLE FOR THAT TROOP, for Gad, the idol of happiness and good f...
A REMNANT SAVED...
TROOP: Or, Gad NUMBER: Or, Meni...
11-16 Here the different states of the godly and wicked, of the Jews who believed, and of those who persisted in unbelief, are set against one another. They prepared a table for that troop of deities...
Do not you that are idolaters think that these promises belong to you, YE ARE THEY THAT FORSAKE THE LORD, that is, the way of the Lord; it is a phrase opposed to _a walking with God_. Our walking with...
Isaiah 65:11 forsake H5800 (H8802) LORD H3068 forget H7913 holy H6944 mountain H2022 prepare H6186 (H8802) table...
A REMNANT WILL BE SAVED, BUT LARGE NUMBERS MUST FIRST FACE JUDGMENT (ISAIAH 65:8). During his inaugural call (chapter 6) Isaiah had been warned that the people of Judah/Israel would go through refinem...
CONTENTS: Answer of Jehovah to remnant of Israel. Eternal blessing in the renovated earth. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Although Jehovah has long stretched forth His hand to a disobedient and gainsa...
Isaiah 65:4. _Which remain among the graves._ The LXX add, _dream._ Perhaps Jude had this text in his eye, when he calls the wicked “filthy dreamers.” _See Augustine's city of God. Which eat swine's f...
_That prepare a table for that troop_ LUCK AND FORTUNE Among Orientals the planets Jupiter and Venus were worshipped as the Larger and the Lesser Luck. They were worshipped as Merodach and Istar amo...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 65:1 Though the people of God have unfaithful sinners mixed among them now, he is eager to bring them into their glorious eternal home. His eagerness is rejected by Jews but welc...
SECTION XI.—GOD'S ANSWER TO THE EXILES' PRAYER (Isaiah 65:1.) EXPOSITION ISAIAH 65:1 ISRAEL'S SUFFERINGS
Now God answers the prayer offered by the remnant of the people and He said, I am sought of them that asked not for me (Isaiah 65:1); Here's the remnant of the Jewish people calling to God. "If You'...
1 Chronicles 28:9; 1 Corinthians 10:20; 1 Corinthians 10:21; Deuteronomy 29:25;...
Forget — To forget God's holy mountains, signifies not to regard the true worship of God. God calls Zion his holy mountain. That troop — The idols of the ten tribes, and of the Assyrians, were a troop...