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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 66:17

Sanctify themselves] referring (as in Isaiah 65:5) to the apostates who are initiated into some form of heathen mysteries. Behind one] i.e. (a) 'behind one Asherah,' i.e. idol tree-trunk (RM, cp. Isaiah 17:8); or, (b) 'behind one man,' as priest and leader of their worship. LXX omits the words. Eating, etc.] cp. Isaiah 65:4. The mouse] unclean by the Law (Leviticus 11:29).

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See also Isaiah 66:17 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 66:17. _BEHIND ONE_ TREE - "After the rites of Achad"] The Syrians worshipped a god called Adad, _Plin_. Nat. Hist. xxxvii. 11; Macrob. Sat. i. 23. They held him to be the highest and gr...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THEY THAT SANCTIFY THEMSELVES - That is, who attempt to purify themselves by idolatrous rites, by ablutions, and lustrations. The design here is, to describe those who will be exposed to the wrath of...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 66 The Finale: The Two Classes and the Prophecy of Isaiah in a Retrospect 1. _The apostates and their wicked worship (Isaiah 66:1) _ 2. _The remnant suffering and encouraged (Isaiah 66:5) _ 3...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH 66. Here divisions are hard to define. The theme the coming punishment of the apostates and the coming glory of the pious is pursued now on one side, now on the other. ISAIAH 66:1. AN ATTACK O...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    GARDENS. Compare Isaiah 1:29, and Isaiah 65:3. TREE: i.e. the _Asherah_. TREE, &C. See notes on next page. ABOMINATION. Hebrew. _shakaz._ Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 7:2). O

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A renewed description of the apostates, in terms similar to Isaiah 66:3; Isaiah 65:3-5; Isaiah 65:11. Although the judgement is "with all flesh" it has a special significance for these reprobates. The...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THEY THAT SANCTIFY THEMSELVES— These verses specify the cause of the extreme severity denounced in those preceding, and are to be understood figuratively, like the expressions used in Isaiah 66:3 and...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    3. BUILDING OF ZION TEXT: Isaiah 66:15-24 15 For, behold, Jehovah will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD....

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    66:17 one (a-12) Possibly an idol....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    God will punish evil behaviour wherever he finds it (see Isaiah 13:11; Isaiah 30:27-33). Verse 17b (the second part of verse 17) To eat such meat was against God’s law (see my notes on Isaiah 65:4b)...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEY THAT SANCTIFY THEMSELVES... — Better, _they that consecrate themselves ..._ As in Isaiah 65:3, the prophet has in his thoughts the apostates, who gloried in mingling heathen rites with the worshi...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הַ מִּתְקַדְּשִׁ֨ים וְ הַ מִּֽטַּהֲרִ֜ים אֶל...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

    This last chapter is confessedly difficult of interpretation. In it the prophet seems to look beyond all that he has previously described, and to deal with destiny. He first announces anew the fact of...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    They that sanctify (r) themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one [tree] in the midst, eating (s) swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Within the court, or gardens, where they purified themselves, foolishly supposing that this would remove their crimes, as the pagans did. (St. Jerome) (Tertullian, Bapt. v.) --- Instead of gate, St. J...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The Lord is here speaking of his judgment upon sinners, who despise his ordinances, and corrupt and pollute them. Mingling ought with them they become a pollution; Exodus 20:25....

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    17._They who sanctify themselves. _He now describes those enemies of whom he said, that God’s anger would be kindled against them; for it might have been doubtful whether he spoke of foreign and avowe...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 66 speaks of the judgment that introduces it, and consequently gives us more historical details. The temple is rebuilt in Jerusalem (Isaiah 66:6), but Jehovah does not own it, man alone being...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEY THAT SANCTIFY THEMSELVES,.... This is a description of the enemies of the Lord, and of his people, who shall be slain at this time; not who are sanctified by the Spirit and grace of God, but who...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one [tree] in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD...

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

    _They that sanctify themselves_, &c. “Behold,” says Vitringa, “the reason of the great severity above mentioned, namely, a base and abominable departure from God, represented under a certain kind of i...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    They that sanctify themselves and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, that is, the idol-worshipers who anxiously observe all the ceremonies of cleansing under the direction...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE HAPPINESS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    BEHIND ONE TREE: Or, one after another...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    15-24 A prophetic declaration is given of the Lord's vengeance on all enemies of his church, especially that of all antichristian opposers of the gospel in the latter days. Ver...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    That the Jews might not think that the judgments threatened concerned only the heathen, he tells them they concerned them, the idol worshippers amongst them; and not idolaters only, but such as broke...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 66:17 sanctify H6942 (H8693) purify H2891 (H8693) gardens H1593 After H310 an H259 midst H8432 Eating...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THOSE WHO FOLLOW FALSE RELIGION WILL COME TO AN END TOGETHER (ISAIAH 66:17 A). Isaiah 66:17 “Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves, To go to the gardens behind one in the midst, Eati...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Blessings of the coming universal Kingdom. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Following the day of Christ's vengeance the sorrows of Israel will be turned into abundant joys. All the Gen...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 66:1. _The heaven is my throne._ This chapter applies to Isaiah's time, as well as to future times; and though the Lord rejected the impure worship of the temple, yet he would dwell with the co...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 66:1 Though the worship of God is violated now, in the future falsehood will be judged, true worship will spread, and God will be honored forever. ⇐...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION XII.—FINAL THREATENINGS AND PROMISES (Isaiah 66:1.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 66:1 THE UNGODLY EXILES REBUKED

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that you build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? (Isaiah 66:1) They're going to build a new te...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 14:3; Isaiah 1:29; Isaiah 65:3; Isaiah 65:4; Leviticus 1

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Gardens — In which they worshipped idols. In the midst — Behind one of the trees, or one by one behind the trees. The abominations — All those beasts forbidden the Jews for meat. God will not only des...

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