Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 48:4
I knew — Therefore I gave thee clearer demonstrations of my nature and providence, because I knew thou wast an unbelieving nation. Thy neck — Will not bow down to receive my yoke. Thy brow — Thou wast impudent.
I knew — Therefore I gave thee clearer demonstrations of my nature and providence, because I knew thou wast an unbelieving nation. Thy neck — Will not bow down to receive my yoke. Thy brow — Thou wast impudent.
BECAUSE I KNEW THAT THOU ART OBSTINATE - I made these frequent predictions, and fulfilled them in this striking manner, because I knew that as a people, you were prone to unbelief, and in order that y...
CHAPTER 48 The Divine Restatement Concerning His People, Their Condition and Future 1. _Their condition and Jehovah's predictions (Isaiah 48:1)_ 2. _Jehovah acts for His Name's sake (Isaiah 48:9)_ 3....
A RECAPITULATION OF THE ARGUMENT FROM PROPHECY. To the original text a redactor has added a commentary (bracketed below) from a different standpoint. Whereas the prophet regarded Israel as having more...
THY NECK, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 32:9)....
I HAVE DECLARED THE FORMER THINGS— The proof is here again drawn from the prediction of casual future events; either because this argument is unanswerable, and adapted to every capacity, or because Is...
SOVEREIGN IN WISDOM, CHAPTER 48 a. PROOF TEXT: Isaiah 48:1-8 1 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah; who swear by th...
Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; BECAUSE I KNEW THAT THOU (ART) OBSTINATE - Hebrew, hard, (; , margin.) AND THY NECK IS AN IRON SINEW - i...
48:4 brass, (h-18) Or 'bronze.'...
LET THE EXILES TRUST IN JEHOVAH, AND COME OUT OF BABYLON 1-11. Jehovah's purpose will be executed, but not for Israel's merit. 12-22. Let Israel recognise His leading in the course of history, and l...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 48 ISRAEL’S EMPTY RELIGION V1 The *Lord says, ‘Listen to this, you family...
The *Lord uses a powerful picture in words. The people were totally unwilling to change their opinions. So the *Lord says that their heads and necks were like metal. It is very difficult to bend metal...
BECAUSE I KNEW THAT THOU ART OBSTINATE... — The point is that Jehovah foresees not only the conquests of Cyrus, but the obduracy of His own people. In Egypt (Jeremiah 44) and in Babylon, as of old, th...
מִ דַּעְתִּ֕י כִּ֥י קָשֶׁ֖ה אָ֑תָּה וְ גִ֤יד
Isaiah 44:1; Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 46:1; Isaiah 47:1; Isaiah 48:1...
THE OBSTINATE AND INSINCERE REBUKED Isaiah 48:1-16 We are meant to be for God's praise and glory; but we may delay the realization of His high purpose. Our neck iron, our brow brass, we trust in idol...
This chapter constitutes the last section of the division dealing with the purpose of peace. It is a great appeal to the people. It first describes Jehovah's methods (verses Isa 48:1-11). He has had t...
Because I knew that (e) thou [art] obstinate, and thy neck [is] an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; (e) I have done for you more than I promised, that your stubbornness and impudency might have been o...
_Brass; unblushing, Jeremias iii. 3. (Calmet) --- Os tuum ferreum. (Cicero, contra Pis.)_...
Reader! mark, I beseech you, what a gracious expostulation of the Lord is contained in these verses. The Lord retraces the subject from the beginning. He gives his people to see what they were, and wh...
4._For I knew that thou art obstinate. _Literally it is, “On account of my knowing,” or, “From nay knowing.” Here the Lord solemnly declares by the Prophet, that it was on account of the hard-heartedn...
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...
BECAUSE I KNEW THAT THOU ART OBSTINATE,.... Or "hard" a, hard hearted, an obdurate and rebellious people, contradicting and gainsaying: AND THY NECK IS AS AN IRON SINEW; stiffnecked, inflexible, not...
Because I knew that thou [art] obstinate, and thy neck [is] an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; Ver. 4. _Because I knew that thou art obstinate._] Heb., Hard, obdurate; therefore do I so inculcate the...
_I have declared_ That is, _predicted; the former things_ Those things which are already come to pass. These, opposed to _new things_, (Isaiah 48:6,) seem to intend the events foretold by Isaiah in th...
Because I knew that thou art obstinate, hard of head and of heart, AND THY NECK IS AN IRON SINEW, inflexible, AND THY BROW BRASS, insisting upon going forward on its own sinful way, refusing to be gui...
A TESTIMONY CONCERNING THE HOUSE OF JACOB...
OBSTINATE: _ Heb._ hard...
1-8 The Jews valued themselves on descent from Jacob, and used the name of Jehovah as their God. They prided themselves respecting Jerusalem and the temple, yet there was no holiness in their lives....
BECAUSE I KNEW: therefore I gave thee the more and clearer demonstrations of my Divine nature and providence, because I knew thou wast an unbelieving and perverse nation, that would not easily nor wil...
Isaiah 48:4 knew H1847 obstinate H7186 neck H6203 iron H1270 sinew H1517 brow H4696 bronze H5154 I knew -...
CHAPTER 48 THE UNPREPARED STATE OF ISRAEL/JUDAH. Babylon, and its final fate, has just been described, but the very idea has turned Isaiah's attention on Israel. It has put Israel under the microscop...
THE FAILURE OF ISRAEL/JUDAH AND HIS INTENTION FOR THEM (ISAIAH 48:1). Isaiah 48:1 “Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, And are come forth out of the waters of Judah....
Isaiah 48:1. _Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of...
CONTENTS: The dullness of Israel. Restoration under the Servant of Jehovah. Israel reminded of the promises. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit. CONCLUSION: God often finds His people obstinate and...
Isaiah 48:1. _Which swear by the name of the Lord,_ who resents all false swearing to his covenant. Isaiah 48:3. _I have declared the former things._ The Messiah continues here to be the speaker, and...
AN IRON NECK Thy neck is an iron sinew. Isaiah 48:4. How many of you have had a donkey-ride? I expect most of you, at some time or other, have enjoyed a trot on the back of a donkey. Perhaps it was...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 48:1 Despite Israel’s stubborn unbelief, God pursues his purpose of redemption. He will free them from Babylon for his own sake. ⇐...
THE PROBABILITY AND USE OF INSPIRED PREDICTIONS Isaiah 48:3. _I have declared the former things, &c._ I. Is it quite plain that any being that is distinguished above others must be exalted, either b...
EXPOSITION The present chapter, which terminates the second section of Isaiah's later prophecies, consists of a long address by God to his people, partly in the way of complaint, partly of combined p...
Now in chapter 48 God speaks about how that He is going to restore then under the Holy One, Jehovah's servant. And God is going to restore the house of Jacob. Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which ar...
2 Chronicles 30:8; 2 Chronicles 36:13; 2 Kings 17:14; Acts 7:51;...