Marginal Notes in the KJV (1611)
Isaiah 41:7
goldsmith:
Or, founder
him that smote:
Or, the smiting
saying:
, It is ready for the sodering: Or, saying of the soder, it is good
goldsmith:
Or, founder
him that smote:
Or, the smiting
saying:
, It is ready for the sodering: Or, saying of the soder, it is good
Verse Isaiah 41:7. _THAT IT SHOULD NOT BE MOVED _- "That it shall not move."] Five MSS., (two ancient,) and the ancient Versions, add the conjunction ו _vau_, "and," reading ולא _velo_, "and not," whi...
SO THE CARPENTER - (See the note at Isaiah 40:19). ENCOURAGED THE GOLDSMITH - Margin, ‘The founder’ (see the note at Isaiah 40:19). The word properly means one who melts or smelts metals of any kind;...
CHAPTER 41 Jehovah's Challenge 1. _The address to the islands and the peoples (Isaiah 41:1)_ 2. _Jehovah's question, Cyrus and his ways predicted (Isaiah 41:2)_ 3. Nations troubled on account of Cyru...
THE CONQUERING CAREER OF CYRUS CLAIMED BY YAHWEH AS EVIDENCE OF HIS POWER. Isaiah 41:5 is probably an insertion made to connect Isaiah 41:4 with Isaiah 41:6 f. after...
The alarm of the nations leads to the production of fresh images. The view that Isaiah 41:6 form part of ch. Isaiah 40:18-20 has already been mentioned. With regard to the suitability of the verses in...
_the carpenter_ stands here for the same word as WORKMAN in Isaiah 40:19: it denotes an "artificer" either in metal or wood or stone. _he that smootheth_with _the hammer_ probably the man who fits on...
THE ISLES SAW IT, &C.— Bishop Lowth renders the 7th verse, _The carver encouraged the smith; he that smootheth with the hammer, him that smiteth on the anvil; saying of the solder, it is good: and he...
2. CONQUEST, CHAPTER 41 a. GENTILES SILENCED TEXT: Isaiah 41:1-7 1 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the peoples renew their strength; let them come near; then let them speak; let us come...
So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be m...
CYRUS GOD'S AGENT 1-7. Jehovah and the gods of the heathen compared as in a court of judgment. Jehovah has raised up Cyrus and given him victory, in order to carry out His good purposes, while the he...
SAYING, etc.] RV 'saying of the soldering, It is good.' 8-10. Israel, on the other hand, descended from the patriarchs, God's chosen people, need have no fear....
Isaiah mentions the reaction of other nations to the crisis. The *idols that the nations had were clearly without any power whatever. The nations’ only solution was to make new *idols! • Isaiah wants...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 41 KNOW WHO REALLY CONTROLS EVENTS V1 God speaks: ‘You people in distant...
SO THE CARPENTER. — The process is described even more vividly than in Isaiah 40:19. For “the carpenter,” read _the caster,_ the idol being a metal one. The image of lead or copper is then covered wit...
וַ יְחַזֵּ֤ק חָרָשׁ֙ אֶת ־צֹרֵ֔ף מַחֲלִ֥יק פּ
CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...
THE LORD UPHOLDETH HIS SERVANT Isaiah 41:1-16 The conception of this passage is superb. Jehovah is represented as summoning the earth to determine whether He or some idol of the heathen is the true G...
Having thus announced the majesty of Jehovah, the prophet proceeds to utter his general manifesto. This occupies Chapter s forty-one and forty-two. In chapter forty-one Jehovah challenges the island a...
_Moved. Thus the nations conspire against Cyrus (Calmet) and the Messias. (Haydock)_...
It is enough to read the account which the Lord here gives of idolatry, to behold the folly of it to the full. One sinner encouraging another, is among the devices of Satan, to blind the eyes of all....
7._The workmen encouraged the founder. _This verse is explained in various ways, and indeed is somewhat obscure; and even the Jewish writers are not agreed as to the meaning of the words. I see no rea...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 41, 42, AND 43. Chapter 41 begins the historical details which prove this. Who raised up Cyrus to overthrow idolatry? But in the midst of the havoc he made of...
SO THE CARPENTER ENCOURAGED THE GOLDSMITH,.... The carpenter, when he had made a wooden image, encouraged and hastened the goldsmith, or the "finer", as some render it, to do his part, in covering it...
_So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, [and] he that smootheth [with] the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It [is] ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, [that] it should...
THE GLORY OF THE LORD AND THE VANITY OF THE HEATHEN...
So the carpenter, the craftsman in wood and metal, ENCOURAGED THE GOLDSMITH, the man who cast the idols, AND HE THAT SMOOTHETH WITH THE HAMMER HIM THAT SMOTE THE ANVIL, SAYING, IT IS READY FOR THE SOL...
1-9 Can any heathen god raise up one in righteousness, make what use of him he pleases, and make him victorious over the nations? The Lord did so with Abraham, or rather, he would do so with Cyrus. S...
THE CARPENTER, who brought wood to compose the body of the idol. THE GOLDSMITH, who was to prepare golden plates for covering and adorning of the image, which some of them beat out upon the anvil, and...
Isaiah 41:7 craftsman H2796 encouraged H2388 (H8762) goldsmith H6884 (H8802) smooths H2505 (H8688) hammer H6360 strike
GOD'S APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD (ISAIAH 41:1). Isaiah 41:1 “Keep silence before me, O coastlands, And let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. Let us...
Isaiah 41:6 I. Encouragement must be lived as well as spoken. II. Encouragement must begin at the nearest point. III. Encouragement must not be merely seasonal. IV. Encouragement must not be withd...
God enters into a controversy with those who had fallen into the worship of idols. Isaiah 41:1. _Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then l...
Isaiah 41:1. _Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment._ God invites people to argue...
CONTENTS: Greatness of God and weakness of man. Admonition to shun idols and encouragement to trust in God. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Jacob. CONCLUSION: Jehovah is infinite, eternal and unchangeable....
Isaiah 41:1. _Keep silence before me, oh islands._ Commentators here refer us to the time of our Saviour's birth, for the isles of Chittim designate the Roman power. In the Augustan age, the temple of...
_So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith_ THE HARDSHIPS OF WORKING MEN If men in bad work can encourage each other, should not men engaged in honest artisanship and mechanism speak words of good c...
_They helped every one his neighbour._ IDOLATRY THE SUBJECT OF SARCASM: The sarcasm consists in making the idolaters dependent upon idols which are themselves dependent upon common workmen and the mo...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 41:1 God alone guides history, for his glory and for the benefit of his people. ⇐ ⇔
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 41:5 The nations respond to the upheavals of history by nervously constructing more gods to believe in. But how can “created creators” save? ⇐...
LESSONS FROM THE HEATHEN WORKERS Isaiah 41:5. _The isles saw it, and feared. &c._ These verses indicate the state of feeling which was created among the heathen nations by the rapid and victorious c...
TWO KINDS OF HELP Isaiah 41:6. _They helped every one his neighbour, &c._ Isaiah 41:10. _Fear not; I will help thee, &c._ It is manifestly the intention of the prophet to exhibit the contrast betwee...
SECTION II.—RECOVERY OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD FROM THEIR SIN, AND FROM THEIR BONDAGE IN BABYLON (CH. 41-48.). EXPOSITION...
In the forty-first chapter of Isaiah in the first part of the chapter, God begins His predictions concerning Cyrus who was not yet born. A man who was not to be born for a hundred and fifty years. But...
Daniel 3:1; Isaiah 40:19; Isaiah 40:20; Isaiah 44:12; Isaiah 46:6;...
Fastened it — To the wall or pillar....