Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 46:2
They — The Babylonians. Together — The Babylonians and their idols together, neither could help the other. Deliver — The Babylonians could not deliver their idols.
They — The Babylonians. Together — The Babylonians and their idols together, neither could help the other. Deliver — The Babylonians could not deliver their idols.
Verse Isaiah 46:2. _THEY COULD NOT DELIVER THE BURDEN_ - "They could not deliver their own charge"] That is, their worshippers, who ought to have been borne by them. See the two next verses. The _Cha...
THEY STOOP - Bel, and Nebo, and all the Babylonian gods (see Isaiah 46:1). THEY COULD NOT DELIVER THE BURDEN - The word ‘burden’ here, probably means the load of metal, wood, and stone, of which the i...
CHAPTER 46 1. _Babylon Is to Fall The Babylonian idols carried by the beasts (Isaiah 46:1)_ 2. _How Jehovah carries His people (Isaiah 46:3)_ 3. _The divine reproach (Isaiah 46:5)_ 4. A ravenous bird...
THE HELPLESS PLIGHT OF BABYLON'S GODS CONTRASTED WITH THE SAVING MIGHT OF YAHWEH. Isaiah 46:1 f. In vision the prophet sees the images of Babylon's gods (two of the most prominent are named), taken fr...
THEY. Aram, and Syriac, with five early printed editions, read "and they". But some codices, with two early printed editions, omit "and". THEMSELVES. their soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....
BE BOWED DOWN— The prophet, as he wrote this, saw the fall of Babylon before his eyes, the city plundered and spoiled, the temples ravaged and destroyed, and the idols of Babylon placed upon the beast...
3. SOVEREIGN OVER NATIONS, Chapter S 46 - 47 a. CONDEMNING THEIR GODS TEXT: Isaiah 46:1-13 1 Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth; their idols are upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: the things that ye...
They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity. THEY COULD NOT DELIVER - from the enemies' hands. BURDEN - their images laid on the...
THE CONTRAST BETWEEN JEHOVAH AND THE DEITIES OF BABYLON 1, 2. The idols of Babylon will be borne away by the conquerors amongst the spoil, the gods being powerless to save their images. I. Bel] the c...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 46 THE END FOR BABYLON’S GODS V1 The chief gods of Babylon were called Be...
THEY COULD NOT DELIVER THE BURDEN. — The deities are, for the moment, distinguished from their images. They are powerless to rescue them. So far as they have a soul or being at all, that very being is...
קָרְס֤וּ כָֽרְעוּ֙ יַחְדָּ֔ו לֹ֥א יָכְל֖וּ מַלֵּ֣ט...
Isaiah 44:1; Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 46:1; Isaiah 47:1; Isaiah 48:1...
GOD'S SALVATION SHALL NOT TARRY Isaiah 46:1-13 Here is a startling contrast! Babylon is broken up. An invading army of stern monotheists have slain the idolatrous priests at their altars and are enga...
This chapter and the next contain the prophecy of the fall of Babylon. This one describes the failure of the gods. It opens with a graphic picture of the idols being hurried away for safety, carried o...
(c) They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but (d) themselves have gone into captivity. (c) The beasts that carried the idols fell down under their burden. (d) He der...
_They. Literally, "their soul." (Haydock) --- The pagans must have supposed they had one. (Calmet) --- Captivity. "There are as many triumphs over the gods as over men." (Tertullian) --- The former sh...
Bel and Nebo were the names of two of the gods of Babylon. Probably from thence, one of the kings of Babylon took the name of Belshazzar, and another that of Nebuchadnezzar. But perhaps the former is...
2._They could not withdraw themselves from the burden. _He ridicules the vanity of such gods as these, which have neither strength nor motion, and cannot defend or support themselves, and, in a word,...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 46, 47, AND 48. In Chapter s 46, 47, the application is made to Babylon and to her idols, but still as pleading for Israel as beloved of God; for governmental...
THEY STOOP, THEY BOW TOGETHER,.... Either the beasts under their burdens, or other idols besides those mentioned; or rather the Babylonians themselves, who were obliged to submit to the conquerors: T...
They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity. Ver. 2. _They stoop._] The Babylonians, together with their idols; ridiculous gods, that...
Isa. 46:1-7. Bel and Nebo, the gods of Babylon, were first carried by men on their shoulders, verse 7, and then afterwards when Babylon was destroyed they were carried by the beasts. When the Medes an...
_Bel_ The chief idol of the Babylonians, called by profane historians Jupiter Belus; _boweth down_ As the Babylonians used to _bow down_ to him to worship him, so now he bows down, and submits himself...
THE FALL OF BABYLON'S IDOLS...
They, the idols, STOOP, they bow down together, they are entirely collapsed; THEY COULD NOT DELIVER THE BURDEN, they were unable to save the burden of their own statues, they could not bring them to a...
THEMSELVES: _ Heb._ their soul...
1-4 The heathen insulted the Jews, as if their idols Bel and Nebo were too hard for Jehovah. But their worshippers cannot help them; both the idols and the idolaters are gone into captivity. Let not...
THEY; either, 1. The idols, of whom these words are used, ISAIAH 46:1. Or, 2. The Babylonians, who are sufficiently implied in that expression, _their idols_, ISAIAH 46:1. THEY BOW DOWN TOGETHER; ei...
Isaiah 46:2 stoop H7164 (H8804) down H3766 (H8804) together H3162 could H3201 (H8804) deliver H4422 ...
THE GODS OF BABYLON ARE BORNE BY ASSES AND ARE WEARYING EVEN THE ANIMAL CREATION WHICH CARRIES THEM. THEIR END IS APPROACHING (ISAIAH 46:1). Isaiah 46:1 ‘Bel bows down, Nebo stoops. Their idols are...
CONTENTS: Israel exhorted to remember the power of God and powerlessness of idols. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: False gods will certainly fail the worshippers when they have most need of them. It is...
Isaiah 46:1. _Bel_ or Baal. See on Numbers 32:38. It is understood that the name is derived from Belus; the history is involved in obscurity. The priests every night prepared him a voluptuous supper,...
_Bel boweth down_ BEL AND NEBO Bel and Nebo are the Jupiter and Mercury of the Babylonian pantheon (they are represented by these planets), and were the supreme deities in Babylon at this time. Bel...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 46:1 The Lord will humiliate the idols of human self-worship and will demonstrate that he is the one true God. ⇐...
THE DIFFICULTY OF DELIVERING THE DELUDED FROM THEIR DELUSIONS Isaiah 46:1. _Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, &c._ I want to fix your attention on the point where this prophecy stops. In vision Isaiah...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 46:1, ISAIAH 46:2 THE FALL OF THE GODS OF BABYLON. Among the direct consequences of the victories of Cyrus will be
Isaiah chapter 46. Now in Isaiah 46:1-13 we get a short contrast between God, the true and the living eternal God that created the heavens and the earth, and the false gods that these people were wors...
2 Samuel 5:21; Isaiah 36:18; Isaiah 36:19; Isaiah 37:12; Isaiah 37:19