The figure is that of a woman trying to attract admirers. Judah had coquetted with foreign kings, especially with the king of Assyria (2 Kings 16:7; 2 Kings 16:10). Or perhaps for the king we should read 'Moloch'; the reference then is to idolatry, as in the preceding vv.
Messengers] RV 'ambassadors.' Unto hell] i.e. Hades, put for the lowest abasement.
Verse Isaiah 57:9. _AND THOU WENTEST TO THE KING WITH OINTMENT_ - "And thou hast visited the king with a present of oil"] That is, the king of Assyria, or Egypt. Hosea, Hosea 12:1, reproaches the Isra...
AND THOU WENTEST TO THE KING - Margin, ‘Respectedst.’ Jerome renders this, ‘Thou hast adorned thyself with royal ointment, and hast multiplied thy painting; and evidently understands it as a continuan...
Chapter s 56:9-57:14 must be read continuously. CHAPTER S 56:9-57:21 The Condition of the Apostate Nation and the two Classes 1. _The condition of the shepherds of Israel (Isaiah 56:9) _ 2. _Apostat...
AN INVECTIVE AGAINST THE PRO-SAMARITANS. Yahweh turns now bitterly to upbraid the pro-Samaritan party in the community, among whom flourished many of the primitive Palestinian religious practices. To...
THE KING. Or, the idol, as in Isaiah 30:33; 1 Kings 11:7. HELL. Hebrew. _Sheol._ App-35....
Isaiah 56:9 to Isaiah 57:21. A Protest against the Unworthy Shepherds of God's Flock, and the arrogant Heathenism by which it is threatened; followed by a Message of Consolation to True Israelites Th...
Invective against an idolatrous party. With regard to the reference of this obscure and difficult passage the following points have to be noticed: (1) The scenery of Isaiah 57:5 is unmistakeably Pales...
Pilgrimages and deputations to the shrines of foreign deities form a fitting conclusion to the enumeration of their idolatries. Another view taken of the verse is that it refers to political embassies...
AND THOU WENTEST TO THE KING WITH OINTMENT— According to the interpretation which we have heretofore given, the king of mystical Babylon, or the Pope, must be meant, to whom the particulars in this ve...
2. SENSUALITY TEXT: Isaiah 57:6-10 6 Among the smooth stones of the valley is thy portion; they, they are thy lot; even to them hast thou poured a drink-offering, thou hast offered an oblation. Sha...
And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell. AND THOU WENTEST TO THE KING - the idol...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S SPECIAL SERVANT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 49 TO 57 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 57 GOD’S LOYAL PEOPLE MAY SUFFER V1 Sometimes good people die young. So do some holy p...
THOU WENTEST TO THE KING... — The alteration of a single letter would give _to Molech;_ and this may be the meaning even of the text as it stands. Looking to the Manasseh-surroundings of the passage,...
וַ תָּשֻׁ֤רִי לַ † מֶּ֨לֶךְ֙ בַּ †...
CHAPTER XXIII THE REKINDLING OF THE CIVIC CONSCIENCE Isaiah 56:9; Isaiah 57:1; Isaiah 58:1; Isaiah 59:1 IT was inevitable, as so
NO PEACE TO THE WICKED Isaiah 57:1-21 A terrible portrayal is given here of the idolatries and impurities into which the Chosen People had fallen. These scenes under “the oaks” (r.v.) and in the vall...
Because of the failure of these blind watchmen and drunken leaders, righteous men perish, while none lay it to heart. Moreover, the people have yielded to the evil influences of such leaders; "sons of...
And thou wentest (k) to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase [thyself even] to hell. (k) You sought the favour of the Assyr...
_King. Moloc, or (Calmet) any foreign king, of whose alliance God did not approve. (Theodoret) --- To please them, the true religion was adulterated._...
What a change is here! Oh! the awfulness of an unawakened, unregenerated nature! What a sad thought is it, that from generation to generation, the deadly seeds of sin thus bring forth, and blossom, an...
9._And thou wentest to the king with ointment. _Here the Prophet censures another vice closely allied to the former; for ungodliness begets various errors, and leads into grievous and intricate distre...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 55, 56, AND 57. Chapter s 55, 56, 57 are exhortations given in view of these things. Chapter 55 is full free grace, which consequently embraces the Gentiles....
AND THOU WENTEST TO THE KING WITH OINTMENT,.... To the kings of the earth, the singular for the plural, with whom the whore of Rome has committed fornication or idolatry, in allusion to harlots, who,...
And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase [thyself even] unto hell. Ver. 9. _And thou wentest to the king._]...
_Thou wentest to the king_, &c. That is, the king of Assyria or Egypt, to whom the Israelites were very prone to seek, and trust, and send presents. Hosea reproaches the Israelites for the same practi...
And thou wentest to the king with ointment and didst increase thy perfumes, playing the coquette with the world-power because she doubts the ability of the Lord to help her, AND DIDST SEND THY MESSENG...
JEHOVAH REJECTS ALL IDOLATERS...
THOU WENTEST TO THE KING: Or, thou respectedst the King...
3-12 The Lord here calls apostates and hypocrites to appear before him. When reproved for their sins, and threatened with judgments, they ridiculed the word of God. The Jews were guilty of idolatry b...
THOU WENTEST, either by thyself, or by thy messengers, as it follows. Or, _thou didst look_, to wit, earnestly, with expectation and vehement affection. TO THE KING; either to Moloch, which was as it...
Isaiah 57:9 went H7788 (H8799) king H4428 ointment H8081 increased H7235 (H8686) perfumes H7547 sent H7971 ...
THE PRESENT BEHAVIOUR OF THE GODLESS; THE PEOPLE BECOME LIKE THE LEADERS THAT THEY SUPPORT (ISAIAH 57:3). There now follows a description of the backsliding of the people into idolatry and the occult....
HELL Hebrew, "Sheol," (_ See Scofield) - (Habakkuk 2:5). _...
A lament for the death of the righteous many of them put to death by persecution. Isaiah 57:1. _The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none consideri...
CONTENTS: Further ethical instructions. Sins of the people denounced. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: God is justly displeased when the voice of His rod is not heard, much more, when sin and idolatry a...
Isaiah 57:1. _The righteous perisheth._ This was written as a tribute, it would seem, to the memory of king Hezekiah, who was recently called from an earthly to a heavenly crown. He entered into peace...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 57:9 Idolatry also involved futile political alliances with foreign powers (see Isaiah 30:1; Isaiah 31:
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 57:1, ISAIAH 57:2 THE EARLY DEATH OF RIGHTEOUS MEN ACCOUNTED FOR. The Hebrews were given to expec
The righteous man perishes, and no man lays it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, and none is considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come (Isaiah 57:1). There are many w...
2 Kings 16:7; Colossians 2:18; Ezekiel 16:33; Ezekiel 23:16; Hose
The King — The king of Assyria, called the king by way of eminency, to whom the Israelites in the days of Isaiah were very prone to trust, and send presents. And so the prophet passes from their idola...