Oak — Which afford the best and most durable timber. Strengtheneth — He plants, and with care and diligence improves those trees, that he or his posterity may thence have materials for their images, and those things which belong to them.
Verse Isaiah 44:14. _HE HEWETH HIM DOWN _- "He heweth down"] For לכרת _lichroth_, the _Septuagint_ and _Vulgate_ read כרת _carath_ or יכרת _yichroth_....
HE HEWETH HIM DOWN CEDARS - In the previous verses, the prophet had described the formation of an axe with which the work was to be done Isaiah 44:12, and the laying out, and carving of the idol Isaia...
CHAPTER 44 Jehovah Continues to Speak 1. _Spiritual blessings promised by the gift of the Spirit (Isaiah 44:1)_ 2. _Jehovah the First and the Last (Isaiah 44:6)_ 3. _Idolatry rebuked (Isaiah 44:9)_ 4...
ISAIAH 44:6; ISAIAH 44:21. THE INCOMPARABLENESS OF YAHWEH, WHO REDEEMS ISRAEL. Yahweh of (the heavenly) Hosts (Genesis 2:1 *, 1 Samuel 1:3 *) asserts Hi
Isaiah 44:6-23. The Reality of Jehovah's Godhead, evinced by His Predictions, and contrasted with the manifold absurdities of Idolatry The passage, which is merely a restatement of ideas already expr...
now meditated were actually taken....
b. SHOWS THE FRAUDULENCE OF FALSE GODS TEXT: Isaiah 44:9-20 9 They that fashion a graven image are all of them vanity; and the things that they delight in shall not profit; and their own witnesses...
He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it. Description of the...
44:14 terebinth (n-14) Or 'oak.' himself (o-19) Lit. 'and he maketh [it] strong for himself.' see Psalms 80:17 . Others explain it in the sense of allowing the tree to grow to its full size and streng...
The v. describes the choosing of the wood, and the planting of the tree, for making an idol. CYPRESS.. ASH] RV 'holm tree.. fir.' STRENGTHENED] i.e. carefully tends its growth, or chooses, selects. 1...
THE IMPOTENCE OF IDOLS 1-23. The reproach of God's people shall be entirely removed. Jehovah the Eternal, who rules the events of history, contrasted with the futile gods of the heathen. 24-28. This...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 44 The connection between Chapter s 43 and 44 is similar to the connection...
HE HEWETH HIM DOWN CEDARS. — The manufacture is traced further back, possibly by way of protest against the belief current in all nations that some archaic image had fallen from heaven (Acts 19:35). T...
לִ כְרָת ־לֹ֣ו אֲרָזִ֔ים וַ יִּקַּ֤ח תִּרְזָה
Isaiah 44:1; Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 46:1; Isaiah 47:1; Isaiah 48:1...
CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...
THE FOLLY OF IDOLATRY Isaiah 44:12-20 We are here conducted to a metal idol factory, Isaiah 44:12. As we enter, we are forewarned that we shall find the workmen vain, and their delectable things unpr...
The beginning of this chapter (verses Isa 44:1-5) contains the gracious promise of the outpouring of the Spirit of God, and a description of the blessing of refreshment and renewal which will come to...
What a fine contrast does this view of the dung-hill god of a man's own creating, form with what went before, in which the glory of Jehovah is so sublimely set forth! If there were not facts existing...
14._He shall cut down for himself: _The Prophet expresses not only the zeal and furious eagerness of idolaters, but also their rebellion and obstinacy; for when he says that they _cut down cedars _and...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 44 AND 45. Jehovah now reasons with His people whom He had formed from the womb, encourages them, promises them His Spirit. Their children shall spring up as...
HE HEWETH HIM DOWN CEDARS, AND TAKETH THE CYPRESS AND THE OAK,.... To make gods of, trees both pleasant and durable, but all unfruitful: WHICH HE STRENGTHENETH FOR HIMSELF AMONG THE TREES OF THE FORE...
He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish [it]. Ver. 14. _He hewet...
_The smith_, &c. “The sacred writers,” says Bishop Lowth, “are generally large and eloquent upon the subject of idolatry: they treat it with great severity, and set forth the absurdity of it in the st...
THE VANITY OF IDOLATRY OVER AGAINST JEHOVAH...
He heweth him down cedars and taketh the cypress and the oat, rather, "In order to have the finest wood, he chooseth the helm-oak and the common oak," both of them distinguished for the excellence of...
STRENGTHENETH: Or, taketh courage...
9-20 Image-making is described, to expose the folly of idolaters. Though a man had used part of a log for fuel, he fell down before an image made of the remainder, praying it to deliver him. Man grea...
THE CYPRESS AND THE OAK, which afford the best and most durable timber. WHICH HE STRENGTHENETH FOR HIMSELF AMONG THE TRESS OF THE FOREST: the sense of the words thus rendered is, that he planteth, and...
Isaiah 44:14 down H3772 (H8800) cedars H730 takes H3947 (H8799) cypress H8645 oak H437 secures H553 ...
ISAIAH REVEALS THE FOLLY OF IDOLATRY (ISAIAH 44:10). Note the contrast of this passage with what precedes it. Isaiah brings out that while it is Yahweh Who formed Israel, the idol is merely fashioned...
In this chapter, God encourages his Church by a promise of the visitation of his Spirit. Oh, that it may be fulfilled to us also! Isaiah 44:1. Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I hav...
This evening, we will read two Chapter s from Isaiah's prophecy, the forty-fourth and the fifty-fifth, and a few verses from the twenty-third chapter of the second Book of Samuel. May the Lord bless a...
Isaiah 44:1. _Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen: Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant;...
Isaiah 44:1. _Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen: Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my Servant;...
CONTENTS: The promise of the Spirit and the coming restoration. The folly of idolatry. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Cyrus. CONCLUSION: There is no God besides Jehovah. He is infinite and therefore...
Isaiah 44:5. _Another shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord._ This phrase is somewhat obscure; it is not said whether they signed a covenant, or imprinted some mark on their hand. The latter sen...
_They that make a graven image_ THE VANITY OF GRAVEN IMAGES Substituting homely prose for glowing poetry we may, after a fashion, reduce the prophet’s thought to propositions like the following-- 1...
_He planteth an ash_ THE PLANTER AND THE RAIN The civilised and cultivated tree is the joint product of human care and the earth’s fertility. Let us study the picture and see how true it is to what...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 44:14 The false gods depend on human purpose for their existence. ⇐ ⇔...
IDOL-MAKERS Isaiah 44:9. _They that make a graven image, &c._ What have we in this section of this chapter? An effective exposure of the folly of a practice that was almost universal! A fact in itsel...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 44:1 A PROPHECY OF ISRAEL'S SPIRITUAL RECOVERY AND REGENERATION. This section is closely connected with Isaiah 43:1; of which it ought to form
Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen: Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesh...
Habakkuk 2:19; Hosea 4:12; Isaiah 40:20; Jeremiah 10:3...