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Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 58:7

to deal. to break. The technical term for giving or partaking of food, as in Luke 24:30; Luke 24:35.Acts 2:42; Acts 2:46; Acts 20:7; Acts 20:11. Act 27:36. 1 Corinthians 10:16; 1 Corinthians 11:24. Compare Job 42:11.Lamentations 4:4.Ezekiel 18:7; Ezekiel 24:17; Hosea 9:4.

bread. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Species), for all kinds of food.

poor. Hebrew. 'anah. See note on Proverbs 6:11.

hide not. Some codices, with two early printed editions, read "do not thou hide".

thine own flesh. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 29:14).

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See also Isaiah 58:7 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 58:7. _DEAL THY BREAD TO THE HUNGRY_] But this thou canst not do, if thou eat it _thyself_. When a man fasts, suppose he do it through a religious motive, he should give the food of that...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    IS IT NOT TO DEAL THY BREAD TO THE HUNGRY? - The word renderd ‘deal’ (פרס _pâras_), means to divide, to distribute. The idea is, that we are to apportion among the poor that which will be needful for...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    3. JEWISH HISTORY IN THE END TIME: THEIR FUTURE GLORY AND THE GLORY OF THE COMING AGE (58-59) This third and last section of the vision of Isaiah can only be understood and appreciated if it is studie...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    FASTING, FALSE AND TRUE. Yahweh bids the prophet explain to His people wherein their sin lies. Daily they attend the Temple, seeking to know His will for all the world as though their one aim were to...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Comp. Ezekiel 18:7 f., Ezekiel 18:16 f.; Job 31:13 ff. _the poor that are cast out_ THE VAGRANT (homeless) POOR. The word rendered "vagrant" is peculiar, but is supposed to come from a verb meaning "w...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Description of the true fast in which Jehovah delights. The duties enjoined fall under two heads: (1) abstinence from every form of oppression (Isaiah 58:6), and (2) the exercise of positive beneficen...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 993 THE SERVICES WHICH GOD REQUIRES Isaiah 58:5. Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. HOLINESS TEXT: Isaiah 58:6-12 6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break ever...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own f...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    58:7 needy (e-19) Or 'afflicted.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    2. DID RIGHTEOUSNESS] i.e. kept the law. They are ready enough for the external requirements of religion....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    TO DEAL THY BREAD. — Literally, _to break bread,_ as in the familiar phrase of the New Testament (Matthew 26:26; Acts 20:11; Acts 27:34). The bread of the Jews seems to have been made always in the th...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֲ לֹ֨וא פָרֹ֤ס לָֽ † רָעֵב֙ לַחְמֶ֔ךָ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Observe how possible it is to have a fondness for ordinances, but to be void of a spirit of grace in them. Outward observances are easily followed; but heart-renewing, heart-felt sorrow for sin, consi...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    7._Is it not to break thy bread to the hungry? _He goes on to describe the duties of love of our neighbor, which he had described briefly in the preceding verse; for, having formerly said that we must...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 58 AND 59. But these moral considerations rouse the indignation of the Spirit at the condition of Israel in the days of the prophecy-their sin and their hypoc...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Is it not_ Namely, the fast that pleases me. Having shown the evil they were to abstain from in order to keep an acceptable fast, namely, every species of cruelty, he here proceeds to speak of the du...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A SHARP REPROOF OF HYPOCRISY...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    CAST OUT: Or, afflicted...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    3-12 A fast is a day to afflict the soul; if it does not express true sorrow for sin, and does not promote the putting away of sin, it is not a fast. These professors had shown sorrow on stated or oc...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    IS IT, viz. the fast that pleaseth me, supplied from the former verse. Having showed the evil they are to abstain from in order to an acceptable fast, viz. _cruelty_, he here speaks of the duty that i...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 58:7 share H6536 (H8800) bread H3899 hungry H7457 bring H935 (H8686) house H1004 poor H6041 out...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 58:6 This passage is one of those in which the purity and holiness peculiar to the Gospel seem to be foretokened in the morality of the prophetic canon. Isaiah has been termed the Evangelical P...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 58:1. _Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins._ See, friends, how stolid men are by nature. God's mess...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Hypocritical professions of religion. Instructions how to keep fasts aright. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: It is common for unhumbled hearts, while they perform the external services of rel...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 58:1. _Cry aloud, spare not; lift up thy voice like a trumpet._ It is not doubted by the Jews, nor by St. Jerome, that Isaiah lived to the beginning of Manasseh's idolatrous reign; nor that he...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 58:6 God defines the kind of spiritual faithfulness that brings his blessing (compare Isaiah 1:17; James

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    A PLEA FOR THE DISTRESSED Isaiah 58:6. _Is not this the fast that I have chosen? &c._ In the former verses of this chapter we have a description of the state of heart of the Jewish people in the cour...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION VI. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS AND WARNINGS, FOLLOWED BY A CONFESSION AND A PROMISE (Isaiah 58:1; Isaiah 59:1.). EXPOSIT

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 John 3:17; 1 John 3:18; 1 Timothy 5:10; 2 Chronicles 28:15;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Cast out — And thereby become wanderers, having no abiding place. To thy house — That thou be hospitable, and make thy house a shelter to them that have none of their own left. Hide not — That seek no...

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