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Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 6:8

voice. See the Structure (p. 980). This is the voice from the Temple concerning the "scattering", corresponding with Isaiah 40:3; Isaiah 40:6, which is the voice from the wilderness concerning the "gathering".

Whom shall. send? This was not Isaiah's original commission to prophesy, but his special commission for this great dispensational prophecy. Chs. 1-5 form. general introduction to the whole book (see p. 930).

Us. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 1:26; Genesis 3:22; Genesis 11:7). App-92.

said I. In edition 1611 this was "I said".

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See also Isaiah 6:8 in other biblical comments:

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    THE VOICE OF THE LORD - Hebrew: “The voice of Yahweh.” He had before been addressed by one of the seraphim. WHOM SHALL I SEND, AND WHO WILL GO FOR US? - The change of number here, from the singular to...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Now for the first time Isaiah hears the voice of God, the purification of his lips having fitted him for personal converse with Jehovah and spiritual sympathy with His purposes. _who will go for us?_...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וָ אֶשְׁמַ֞ע אֶת ־קֹ֤ול אֲדֹנָי֙ אֹמֵ֔ר אֶת

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • 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

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    HERE AM I: _ Heb._ behold me...

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Sermon Bible Commentary

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  • Sermon Bible Commentary

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  • Sermon Bible Commentary

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  • Sermon Bible Commentary

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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