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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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3. BUILDING OF ZION
TEXT: Isaiah 66:15-24
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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...
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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....
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66:17 one (a-12) Possibly an idol....
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1. WHERE, etc.] RV 'what manner of house.. what place shall be my
rest.' The v. is a strong rebuke of such as, without a really
religious spirit, idly trusted in the inviolability of Zion, and the
pro...
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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. Is...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 66
The *Lord divides the ‘people of God’ into two types. There are
those...
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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)...
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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...
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הַ מִּתְקַדְּשִׁ֨ים וְ הַ
מִּֽטַּהֲרִ֜ים אֶל...
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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...
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ALL FLESH SHALL WORSHIP THE LORD
Isaiah 66:15-24
The prophet makes it clear that, whatever blessings accrue in the
golden future, they will be apportioned to those alone, who are the
Israel of God, n...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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THE HAPPINESS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH...
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BEHIND ONE TREE:
Or, one after another...
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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...
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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...
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Isaiah 66:17 sanctify H6942 (H8693) purify H2891 (H8693) gardens H1593
After H310 an H259 midst H8432 Eating...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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SECTION XII.—FINAL THREATENINGS AND PROMISES (Isaiah 66:1.).
EXPOSITION
ISAIAH 66:1
THE UNGODLY EXILES REBUKED
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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...
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Deuteronomy 14:3; Isaiah 1:29; Isaiah 65:3; Isaiah 65:4; Leviticus 1
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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...