Thus saith the LORD, The (a) heaven [is] my throne, and the earth [is] my footstool: where [is] the house that ye build to me? and where [is] the place of my rest?
(a) My majesty is so great, that it fills both heaven and earth, and therefore cannot be included in a temple like an idol, condemning by this their main confidence which trusted in the temple and sacrifices.
CHAPTER LXVI _This chapter treats of the same subject with the foregoing._ _God, by his prophet, tells the Jews, who valued themselves much_ _on their temple and pompous worship, that the Most High...
THE HEAVEN IS MY THRONE - (See the notes at Isaiah 57:15). Here he is represented as having his seat or throne there. He speaks as a king. heaven is the place where he holds his court; from where he d...
CHAPTER 66 The Finale: The Two Classes and the Prophecy of Isaiah in a Retrospect 1. _The apostates and their wicked worship (Isaiah 66:1) _ 2. _The remnant suffering and encouraged (Isaiah 66:5) _ 3...
ISAIAH 66. Here divisions are hard to define. The theme the coming punishment of the apostates and the coming glory of the pious is pursued now on one side, now on the other. ISAIAH 66:1. AN ATTACK O...
THUS SAITH THE LORD. See App-82. THE HEAVEN, &C _._ Quoted in Acts 7:49. Compare 1 Kings 8:27; 2 Chronicles 6:18. THE. this. Hebrew. _zeh_. YE: i.e. the future builders of the ho
Jehovah, who fills and has created heaven and earth, "dwelleth not in temples made with hands." Comp. the citation in Acts 7:48 ff., also 1 Kings 8:27; Jeremiah 23:24. _The heaven_is _my throne_...
THUS SAITH THE LORD, &C.— God here makes use of a sublime discourse, suitable to his Majesty, to reach the genuine sense whereof we must consider it as directed to the hypocrites, who supposed the car...
F. EPILOGUE, CHAPTER 66 1. BURIAL OF OLD ZION TEXT: Isaiah 66:1-6 1 Thus saith Jehovah, Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what manner of house will ye build unto me? and what plac...
Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? This closing chapter is the summary Isaiah's...
1. WHERE, etc.] RV 'what manner of house.. what place shall be my rest.' The v. is a strong rebuke of such as, without a really religious spirit, idly trusted in the inviolability of Zion, and the pro...
The *Lord uses picture language to teach an important lesson. Solomon made a great *Temple for God. But even Solomon realised that nobody could ever force God to stay inside man-made limits. Even a be...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 66 The *Lord divides the ‘people of God’ into two types. There are those...
LXVI. (1) THE HEAVEN IS MY THRONE... — We are left to conjecture the historical starting-point of this utterance of a Divine truth. Was the prophet condemning in advance the restoration of the temple...
כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה הַ שָּׁמַ֣יִם כִּסְאִ֔י...
CHAPTER XXV A LAST INTERCESSION AND THE JUDGMENT Isaiah 63:7 through Isaiah 66:1 WE might well have thought, that with the section we have been considering the prophecy of Israel's Redemption had re...
GOD'S PEOPLE MADE A BLESSING Isaiah 66:1-14 The prophet forecasts the advent of a new day, when places and rites would be comparatively unimportant compared with the condition of the heart, Isaiah 66...
This last chapter is confessedly difficult of interpretation. In it the prophet seems to look beyond all that he has previously described, and to deal with destiny. He first announces anew the fact of...
House. This is a prophecy that the temple should be cast off. (Challoner) --- Isaias alludes to the return of the captives, as to a figure of the Church. They had flattered themselves with the idea of...
Stephen, in his address to the Jewish Council, made a quotation from hence, and in direct application, to their characters. But what a very blessed and condescending way was this, of Jehovah's speakin...
CONTENTS The Prophet is here come to the close of his Prophetical writings, and a blessed close he makes. The Chapter seems to be but the continuation of the same subject as the former; full of conso...
1._This saith Jehovah. _This discourse is different from the preceding one; for here the Prophet exclaims against the Jews, who, puffed up with vain confidence in the sacrifices and the temple, indulg...
Chapter 66 speaks of the judgment that introduces it, and consequently gives us more historical details. The temple is rebuilt in Jerusalem (Isaiah 66:6), but Jehovah does not own it, man alone being...
THUS SAITH THE LORD, THE HEAVEN IS MY THRONE,.... The third heaven, the heaven of heavens, where angels and glorified saints are, and some in bodies, as Enoch and Elijah, and where now Christ is in hu...
_Thus saith the LORD, The heaven [is] my throne, and the earth [is] my footstool: where [is] the house that ye build unto me? and where [is] the place of my rest?_ Ver. 1. _Thus saith the Lard._] The...
Isa. 66:1. "The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool." The mercy-seat in the Temple is no longer God's throne; but heaven and the ark and temple are no longer God's footstool, as they us...
_Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne_ That is, the throne of my glory and government; the place where I most manifest my power, and show myself in my majesty. Hence we are taught to pray, _Ou...
THE ABOMINATIONS OF A DEAD WORSHIP AND THE BIRTH OF THE NEW CHURCH...
Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool, a majestic declaration of His almighty power and rule; WHERE IS THE HOUSE THAT YE BUILD UNTO ME, AND WHERE IS THE PLACE OF...
1-4 The Jews gloried much in their temple. But what satisfaction can the Eternal Mind take in a house made with men's hands? God has a heaven and an earth of his own making, and temples of man's maki...
ISAIAH CHAPTER 66 God is served with the Spirit, and not by ceremonies, ISAIAH 66:1, the wonderful birth and benefits of the gospel church, ISAIAH 66:5. Severe judgments against the wicked, ISAIAH 66:...
Isaiah 66:1 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 Heaven H8064 throne H3678 earth H776 footstool H7272 H1916 house...
THE EXCEEDING GREATNESS OF GOD (ISAIAH 66:1 A). Isaiah 66:1 ‘Thus says Yahweh, “The heaven is my throne, And the earth is my footstool, What manner of house will you build for me? And what place...
CONTENTS: Blessings of the coming universal Kingdom. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Following the day of Christ's vengeance the sorrows of Israel will be turned into abundant joys. All the Gen...
Isaiah 66:1. _The heaven is my throne._ This chapter applies to Isaiah's time, as well as to future times; and though the Lord rejected the impure worship of the temple, yet he would dwell with the co...
_Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is My throne_ THE ETERNAL BLESSEDNESS OF THE TRUE ISRAEL; THE DOOM OF THE APOSTATES This chapter continues the antithesis that runs through chap. 65., carrying it o...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 66:1 Though the worship of God is violated now, in the future falsehood will be judged, true worship will spread, and God will be honored forever. ⇐...
THE OBJECTS OF THE DIVINE FAVOUR Isaiah 66:1. _Thus saith the_ LORD, _the heaven is My throne, &c._ In opposition to their formality, &c., a great truth is here asserted; viz.: That the special objec...
SECTION XII.—FINAL THREATENINGS AND PROMISES (Isaiah 66:1.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 66:1 THE UNGODLY EXILES REBUKED
Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that you build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? (Isaiah 66:1) They're going to build a new te...
1 Chronicles 28:2; 1 Kings 8:27; 2 Chronicles 6:18; 2 Samuel 7:5;...
The heaven — The highest heaven, is the place where I shew myself in my majesty. So Psalms 11:4, Psalms 103:19; Matthew 5:34. Hence we are taught to pray; our father which art in heaven. And the earth...