Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 1:3
Know — Me their owner and master. Knowing is here taken practically, as it is usually in scripture, and includes reverence and obedience.
Know — Me their owner and master. Knowing is here taken practically, as it is usually in scripture, and includes reverence and obedience.
Verse Isaiah 1:3. _THE OX KNOWETH_] An amplification of the gross insensibility of the disobedient Jews, by comparing them with the most heavy and stupid of all animals, yet not so insensible as they...
THE OX ... - The design of this comparison is to show the great stupidity and ingratitude of the Jews. Even the least sagacious and most stupid of the animals, destitute as they are of reason and cons...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS The reader will find that every chapter has been analyzed as to its contents. We have not made copious annotations, because the three lectures on the book of Isaiah as found a...
Let heaven and earth hear with amazement Yahweh's complaint. He has reared His people with the kindliest care, and _they_ (pathetic emphasis) have repaid Him with unfilial ingratitude. Ox and ass find...
DISCOURSE: 856 GOD’S COMPLAINT AGAINST HIS PEOPLE Isaiah 1:2. _Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled again...
I. PERVERSITY AND PROPHET - Chapter S 1 - 6 CHAPTER ONE A. THE IMPEACHING ACCUSATION 1. CONTROVERSY DECLARED Isaiah 1:1-20 a. JEHOVAH'S COMPLAINT TEXT: Isaiah 1:1-9 1 The vision of Isaiah the so...
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. THE OX KNOWETH HIS OWNER ( ), AND THE DONKEY HIS MASTER'S CRIB - the stall where it i...
The unnaturalness of Israel's conduct is similarly contrasted with the behaviour of the animal creation, in Jeremiah 8:7....
JEHOVAH'S ARRAIGNMENT OF HIS PEOPLE This chapter is general in character, and much of it (e.g. Isaiah 1:10) might refer to almost any period. This general character of the prophecy renders it especial...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 1 WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT V1 Messages about Judah and *Jerus...
‘Heaven and earth’ (that is, everything that God created) are God’s witnesses. They know that God’s words are true. Nature obeys God’s instructions. Even a farmer’s animals are more intelligent than t...
THE OX KNOWETH HIS OWNER... — As in Exodus 20:17; 1 Samuel 12:3, the ox and the ass rather than, as with us, the horse and the dog, are the representative instances of the relation of domesticated ani...
יָדַ֥ע שֹׁור֙ קֹנֵ֔הוּ וַ חֲמֹ֖ור אֵב֣וּס בְּ
CHAPTER I THE ARGUMENT OF THE LORD AND ITS CONCLUSION Isaiah 1:1 -His General Preface THE first chapter of the Book of Isaiah owes its position not to its date, but to its character. It was publishe...
THE INGRATITUDE OF A FAVORED NATION Isaiah 1:1-9 This chapter forms the preface to the prophecies of Isaiah. It is a clear and concise statement of the points at issue between Jehovah and His people....
Isaiah was a prophet to Judah. He exercised his ministry wholly within her borders, and with a view to her correction and comfort. His burdens of the nations were uttered concerning those nations whic...
The (f) ox knoweth his owner, and the donkey his master's crib: [but] Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. (f) The most dull and brute beasts acknowledge their duty more toward their ma...
The prophet hath followed Moses, the man of God, in his sermon, in calling upon the several parts of the inanimate creation to listen to his discourse, Deuteronomy 32:1. There is a vast beauty, as wel...
3._The ox knoweth his owner _This comparison marks the more strongly the criminality of the _revolt_; for the Lord might have compared his people to the Gentiles; but he is still more severe when he c...
Isaiah 1 begins with a testimony to the sad condition of the people. They were all wounds and corruption. It was useless to chastise them any more. Their ceremonies were an abomination to Jehovah. He...
THE OX KNOWETH HIS OWNER,.... Knows his voice, when he calls him, and follows him where he leads him, whether to plough in the field, or feed in the meadows; AND THE ASS HIS MASTERS CRIB, or "manger...
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: [but] Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. Ver. 3. _The ox knoweth his owner._] Yea, helpeth him; whence these creatures are cal...
_The ox knoweth his owner_, &c. In these words the prophet amplifies “the gross insensibility of the disobedient Jews, by comparing them with the most heavy and stupid of all animals, yet not so insen...
THE ADDRESS...
The ox knoweth his owner and the ass his master's crib, the very unthinking brutes acquiring a certain attachment for their master, so that they will not voluntarily leave him; BUT ISRAEL DOTH NOT KNO...
1-9 Isaiah signifies, "The salvation of the Lord;" a very suitable name for this prophet, who prophesies so much of Jesus the Saviour, and his salvation. God's professing people did not know or consi...
THE OX KNOWETH HIS OWNER, AND THE ASS HIS MASTER'S CRIB; the most stupid brute beasts acknowledge and obey their Lord and Benefactor, as experience showeth. ISRAEL DOTH NOT KNOW, to wit, me, their Own...
Isaiah 1:3 ox H7794 knows H3045 (H8804) owner H7069 (H8802) donkey H2543 masters H1167 crib H18 Israel...
HE CALLS ON CREATION TO BE AWARE OF GOD'S JUDGMENT ON HIS PEOPLE (ISAIAH 1:2). The book begins with a chiasmus, a pattern which had been commonly used in the Pentateuch, and which has also been depic...
ISAIAH OUTLINES THE MESSAGE HE IS BRINGING (ISAIAH 1:1). This introductory message is also presented in balanced chiastic form. a He calls on Creation to be aware of God's judgment on His people (Is...
Isaiah 1:1. _The vision of Isaiah the son of Amos, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth...
This is a chapter which, I think, teaches an important lesson to those of us who desire the salvation of men, for it shows us how God sets about that work. He begins by exhibiting the sinner's sin to...
Isaiah 1:1. _The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah._ During the time in which Isaiah prop...
Isaiah 1:2. _Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his ma...
May we be instructed of the Holy Ghost while we read this inspired Scripture! Isaiah 1:1. _The vision of Isaiah the son of Amos, which he saw_ Prophets were called seers, they saw what they were cal...
CONTENTS: Charge against Israel for their ingratitude and degeneration. Call to repentance and reformation. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: The backslidings of those who have professed relations...
Isaiah 1:1. _The vision._ What the prophet saw with the eyes of his mind, concerning the state of Judah and Jerusalem, his ministry being chiefly confined to the kingdom of Judea. _Isaiah, the son of...
_The ox knoweth his owner. .. but Israel doth not know_ ISAIAH’S MESSAGE What does Isaiah teach about God? A prophet of his times had much to do in clearing the minds of the people from the confusio...
_Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken_ GOD FINDS VINDICATION IN NATURE I well remember two funerals going out of my house within a few brief months during my residence in...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 1:1 Introduction: “Ah, Sinful Nation!” The prophet rebukes God’s people and calls them to obey God’s word. He promises miraculous grace beyond judgment....
THOUGHTLESSNESS Isaiah 1:3. _The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider_. It is clear from this chapter that the Lord views the sin...
AN APPEAL AND AN ARGUMENT Isaiah 1:2. _Hear, O heavens; and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth hi...
PART I.—EARLIER PROPHECIES OF ISAIAH (CH. 1-35.) SECTION I.—THE GREAT ARRAIGNMENT (Isaiah 1:1.). EXPOSITION Isaiah 1:1
The book of Isaiah is a marvelous book of prophecy. Of course, it is the longest book of prophecy in the Bible, and it would seem that God gave to Isaiah a clearer vision of the redemptive work of Jes...
2 Peter 3:5; Deuteronomy 32:28; Deuteronomy 32:29; Isaiah 27:11;...