To whom will ye liken me? — The argument against idolatry is renewed in nearly its old form (Isaiah 40:18; Isaiah 44:9). The fate of Bel and Nebo is urged against those who thought that they might worship Jehovah as those deities had been worshipped. Such had been the sin of the calves at Bethel and at Dan. Like it had been the act of Israel when it had carried the ark into battle against the Philistines (1 Samuel 4:5).
TO WHOM WILL YE LIKEN ME - (see the notes at Isaiah 40:18, Isaiah 40:25). The design of this and the following verses is to show the folly of idolatry, and the vanity of trusting in idols. This is a s...
CHAPTER 46 1. _Babylon Is to Fall The Babylonian idols carried by the beasts (Isaiah 46:1)_ 2. _How Jehovah carries His people (Isaiah 46:3)_ 3. _The divine reproach (Isaiah 46:5)_ 4. A ravenous bird...
THE HELPLESS PLIGHT OF BABYLON'S GODS CONTRASTED WITH THE SAVING MIGHT OF YAHWEH. Isaiah 46:1 f. In vision the prophet sees the images of Babylon's gods (two of the most prominent are named), taken fr...
DISCOURSE: 945 GOD’S CARE FOR HIS PEOPLE Isaiah 46:3. _Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the...
TO WHOM WILL YE LIKEN ME— We have in these verses the conviction itself, exhibiting the vanity of idolatry. The argument is similar to that in chap. Isaiah 40:18, &c. and Isaiah 44:12, &c. except that...
3. SOVEREIGN OVER NATIONS, Chapter S 46 - 47 a. CONDEMNING THEIR GODS TEXT: Isaiah 46:1-13 1 Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth; their idols are upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: the things that ye...
To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like? TO WHOM WILL YE LIKEN ME - (; .)...
THE CONTRAST BETWEEN JEHOVAH AND THE DEITIES OF BABYLON 1, 2. The idols of Babylon will be borne away by the conquerors amongst the spoil, the gods being powerless to save their images. I. Bel] the c...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 46 THE END FOR BABYLON’S GODS V1 The chief gods of Babylon were called Be...
An *idol can be very expensive to make. But its maker has completely wasted his money. No *idol can ever do anything to help its owner. GOD’S PLANS NEVER FAIL V8 ‘Remember this, you people who do n...
לְ מִ֥י תְדַמְי֖וּנִי וְ תַשְׁו֑וּ וְ תַמְשִׁ
Isaiah 44:1; Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 46:1; Isaiah 47:1; Isaiah 48:1...
GOD'S SALVATION SHALL NOT TARRY Isaiah 46:1-13 Here is a startling contrast! Babylon is broken up. An invading army of stern monotheists have slain the idolatrous priests at their altars and are enga...
This chapter and the next contain the prophecy of the fall of Babylon. This one describes the failure of the gods. It opens with a graphic picture of the idols being hurried away for safety, carried o...
To whom will ye liken me, and make [me] equal, and (g) compare me, that we may be like? (g) The people of God setting their own calamity, and the flourishing estate of the Babylonians, would be tempt...
Amidst all the folly of idolatry, there is one feature, in which the worshippers become a reproach to us: I mean, in that they spared no expense in their religious rites. This scripture saith they lav...
5._To whom will ye liken and compare me? _Here the Prophet introduces the Lord as remonstrating with the Jews, because they distrusted and doubted his power, and, in a word, because they put him on a...
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...
TO WHOM WILL YE LIKEN ME?.... Was it lawful that any likeness might be made, which yet is forbidden, Exodus 20:4 what likeness could be thought of? is there any creature in heaven or earth, among all...
To whom will ye liken me, and make [me] equal, and compare me, that we may be like? Ver. 5. To whom, _a_ then, will ye liken me? _b_ &c.,] _q.d., _ To which of your paramours? for here the Lord retur...
Isa. 46:1-7. Bel and Nebo, the gods of Babylon, were first carried by men on their shoulders, verse 7, and then afterwards when Babylon was destroyed they were carried by the beasts. When the Medes an...
_To whom will you liken me_, &c. If you be tempted at any time to exchange me for an idol, do me and yourselves the right seriously to consider, whether you can find another god, who will be more able...
To whom will ye liken Me, and make Me equal, and compare Me, that we may be like? Cf. Isaiah 40:18. The heaping of expressions again stresses the uniqueness of the true God, the fact that He alone mer...
THE FALL OF BABYLON'S IDOLS...
5-13 Here the folly of those who made idols, and then prayed to them, is exposed. How does the profuseness of idolaters shame the niggardliness of many who call themselves God's servants, but are for...
If you are tempted or inclined at any time to exchange me for an _idol_, do me and yourselves this right, seriously to consider, whether you can find another God who will be more able and more ready t...
Isaiah 46:5 liken H1819 (H8762) equal H7737 (H8686) compare H4911 (H8686) alike H1819 (H8799)...
WHILE THE GODS OF THE NATIONS HAVE TO BE BORNE BY MAN AND BEAST, YAHWEH HIMSELF IN CONTRAST BEARS HIS PEOPLE (ISAIAH 46:3). Isaiah 46:3 “Listen to me, O house of Jacob, And all the remnant of the h...
Isaiah 46:5 In these words, as in other and similar passages of Scripture, God asserts an immeasurable difference between Himself and all created beings. I. We distinguish the Creator from every crea...
CONTENTS: Israel exhorted to remember the power of God and powerlessness of idols. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: False gods will certainly fail the worshippers when they have most need of them. It is...
Isaiah 46:1. _Bel_ or Baal. See on Numbers 32:38. It is understood that the name is derived from Belus; the history is involved in obscurity. The priests every night prepared him a voluptuous supper,...
_To whom will ye liken Me?_ IDOLS CANNOT REPRESENT GOD The Jews might have alleged that they served not the false gods of the Gentiles, but the God of Israel; and that they used images when they wors...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 46:1 The Lord will humiliate the idols of human self-worship and will demonstrate that he is the one true God. ⇐...
GOD INCOMPARABLE Isaiah 46:5. _To whom then will ye liken Me? &c._ I. THE DOCTRINE TAUGHT BY THE PROPHET. Evidently that God is incomparable. He is so— 1. _In the splendour of His perfections_. He i...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 46:1, ISAIAH 46:2 THE FALL OF THE GODS OF BABYLON. Among the direct consequences of the victories of Cyrus will be
Isaiah chapter 46. Now in Isaiah 46:1-13 we get a short contrast between God, the true and the living eternal God that created the heavens and the earth, and the false gods that these people were wors...
Colossians 1:15; Exodus 15:11; Hebrews 1:3; Isaiah 40:18; Isaiah 40:25