Prayer. So the temple is justly styled. (Haydock) --- This shall be open to all nations. After the captivity, the Jews condescended to let the Gentiles have a court, and they even suffered some princes to go into the court of the priests, 2 Machabees iii. 33. Physcon wished to penetrate into the inner sanctuary, (3 Machabees; Ecclesiasticus l.) which could not be granted.
Verse Isaiah 56:7. SHALL BE _ACCEPTED_] A word is here lost out of the text: it is supplied from the _Septuagint_, יהיו yihyu, εσονται, "they shall be." - _Houbigant_....
EVEN THEM WILL I BRING TO MY HOLY MOUNTAIN - (See the notes at Isaiah 2:3). That is, they should be admitted to the fellowship and privileges of his people. AND MAKE THEM JOYFUL - In the participatio...
CHAPTER 56 Salvation Enjoyed by the Strangers and Eunuchs 1. _Strangers and servants joined unto the Lord to serve Him and to love the Name of the Lord (Isaiah 56:1) _ The first eight verses of this...
ISAIAH 56:1_._ A GRACIOUS PROMISE TO PROSELYTES AND EUNUCHS. We find ourselves conscious in this oracle of a change of atmosphere and setting. The Temple is built, and the centre of an elaborate ritua...
TO. into. Some codices read "upon". HOLY. See note on Exodus 3:5. HOUSE OF PRAYER. See quotation below. shall be accepted. for acceptance. MINE HOUSE, &C. Quoted in Matthew 21:13.Mark 11:17;...
The answer to the misgivings of proselytes (Isaiah 56:3). _to serve him_ Better as R.V. TO MINISTER UNTO HIM. The verb is used of honourable personal service (Genesis 39:4; Genesis 40:4), and especial...
Foreigners who fulfil these conditions have full access to the sanctuary. _make them joyful_ "cause them to rejoice." THE PHRASE IS FORMED from a common Deuteronomic expression for taking part in the...
DISCOURSE: 988 ACCEPTANCE FOR ALL SINCERE WORSHIPPERS Isaiah 56:4. Thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant: Even...
NEITHER LET THE SON OF THE STRANGER, &C.— The _strangers_ and _eunuchs_ were excluded from the privileges of native Jews. In this period they are informed that the time is coming when those distinctio...
2. DOERS ARE DISCIPLES TEXT: Isaiah 56:6-8 6 Also the foreigners that join themselves to Jehovah, to minister unto him, and to love the name of Jehovah, to be his servants, everyone that keepeth th...
Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an...
1, 2. Further conditions to be observed that men may share in the approaching deliverance....
PEOPLE] RV 'peoples.' The passage is referred to by our Lord at the cleansing of the Temple (Matthew 21:13)....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S SPECIAL SERVANT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 49 TO 57 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 56 GOD’S PEOPLE WILL INCLUDE ALL NATIONS V1 (This is what the *Lord says to his people...
Jesus refers to the *Temple as the ‘House for Prayer for all nations’ (see Mark 11:17). ISRAEL’S LEADERS ARE GUILTY V9 Some other people are also coming from foreign countries. And they are coming...
EVEN THEM WILL I BRING... — The words foreshadow the breaking down of the “middle wall of partition” (Ephesians 2:14). Every privilege of the Israelite worshipper is to belong also to the proselyte. I...
וַ הֲבִיאֹותִ֞ים אֶל ־הַ֣ר קָדְשִׁ֗י וְ שִׂמּ
Isaiah 55:1, Isaiah 56:1 CHAPTER XXII ON THE EVE OF RETURN Isaiah 54:1, Isaiah 55:1,...
THE BLESSEDNESS OF SABBATH-KEEPING Isaiah 56:1-12 The bright array of Messianic promises, which occupied the preceding Chapter s, is now followed by a portion of less interest, seeing that our attent...
This division ends with two Chapter s (56 and 57) which set forth certain aspects of the administration of the Kingdom. The first is intended to comfort those who by recent promises of restoration mad...
Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt (g) offerings and their sacrifices [shall be] accepted upon my altar; for my house shall be called a...
This is a repetition of the same promise, varying only in expression, under the gospel dispensation. Aliens and strangers shall be as fully instituted into the privileges of the Church, as the stock o...
7._These will I bring. _By these modes of expression he describes what he had formerly stated, that foreigners who were formerly excluded from the Church of God, are called to it; so that henceforth t...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 55, 56, AND 57. Chapter s 55, 56, 57 are exhortations given in view of these things. Chapter 55 is full free grace, which consequently embraces the Gentiles....
EVEN THEM WILL I BRING TO MY HOLY MOUNTAIN,.... The church, called a "mountain" for its height, visibility, and immovableness; see Isaiah 2:2, especially for the latter; the true members of it being s...
Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices [shall be] accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called a...
_The sons of the stranger that join themselves to the Lord_ That with purpose of heart cleave unto him, as is said Acts 11:23. _To love the Lord, to be his servants_ To serve him out of love to him an...
even them, no matter from what nation they come, WILL I BRING TO MY HOLY MOUNTAIN, to Zion with its Temple, as representing His holy Church, AND MAKE THEM JOYFUL IN MY HOUSE OF PRAYER, by refreshing t...
ADMONITION AND COMFORT TO THE AFFLICTED...
3-8 Unbelief often suggests things to discourage believers, against which God has expressly guarded. Spiritual blessings are unspeakably better than having sons and daughters; for children are a care...
TO MY HOLY MOUNTAIN; to my house, as it is explained in the following clause, which stood upon Mount Zion, largely so called, including Mount Moriah. Formerly the Gentiles neither had any desire to co...
Isaiah 56:7 bring H935 (H8689) holy H6944 mountain H2022 joyful H8055 (H8765) house H1004 prayer H8605 offerings...
THE WELCOME GIVEN TO EUNUCHS AND STRANGERS TO ENTER FULLY INTO THE HOUSE OF YAHWEH (ISAIAH 56:1). God's true people are to live in readiness for the day of deliverance (Isaiah 56:1 b), and one day whe...
CONTENTS: Solemn instruction given to all to make conscience of duty. Charge against the careless and unfaithful. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The more assurance God gives us of the performance of H...
Isaiah 56:1. _Keep ye judgment,_ as a preparation for the Messiah's advent, who is here called, Salvation; and whose righteousness and mercy are the only ground of a sinner's justification, adoption,...
_Even them will I bring to My holy mountain_ THE HOUSE OF PRAYER If we accept the interpretation that the second Isaiah has given us the prophecies of the restoration, we may regard this chapter as...
_Also the sons of the stranger_ GENTILES ENJOYING GOD’S FAVOUR This is a clear prophecy of the call of the Gentiles into the Church of Christ. Let us attend to this description of those who are obj...
_For thus saith the Lord_ CHARACTERISTICS AND PRIVILEGES OF GOD’S PEOPLE The pride of ancestry, and boast of ceremonial exclusiveness and glorying in the flesh, the Lord, by His prophet, looking for...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 56:1 How to Prepare for the Coming Glory: “Hold Fast My Covenant.” Isaiah helps readers know how to be God’s servants who will live with him forever....
CHARACTERISTICS AND PRIVILEGES OF GOD’S PEOPLE Isaiah 56:4. _For thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep My Sabbaths, &c._ The pride of ancestry, and boast of ceremonial exclusiveness, and glo...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 56:1 AN EXHORTATION TO OBSERVE THE LAW, ESPECIALLY THE LAW OF THE SABBATH, COMBINED WITH PROMISES
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Isaiah 56:1-12. In Isaiah 55:1-13 the Lord speaks of this glorious everlasting salvation and the glories of His greatness, His power. "As the heavens are higher than...
1 Peter 1:1; 1 Peter 1:2; 1 Peter 2:5; 1 Timothy 2:8; Ephesians 2:11;...
Mountain — To my house, which stood upon mount Zion. Joyful — By accepting their services, and comforting their hearts with the sense of my love. Accepted — They shall have as free access to mine hous...