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                        Verse Isaiah 44:10. Isaiah 44:9.... 
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                        WHO HATH FORMED A GOD - The Septuagint reads this verse in connection
with the close of the previous verse, ‘But they shall be ashamed who
make a god, and all who sculpture unprofitable things.’ This... 
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                        CHAPTER 44
Jehovah Continues to Speak
1. _Spiritual blessings promised by the gift of the Spirit (Isaiah
44:1)_ 2. _Jehovah the First and the Last (Isaiah 44:6)_ 3. _Idolatry
rebuked (Isaiah 44:9)_ 4... 
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                        ISAIAH 44:6; ISAIAH 44:21. THE INCOMPARABLENESS OF YAHWEH, WHO REDEEMS
ISRAEL. Yahweh of (the heavenly) Hosts (Genesis 2:1 *, 1 Samuel 1:3 *)
asserts His uniqueness, challenging any who claim to have... 
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                        Isaiah 44:6-23. The Reality of Jehovah's Godhead, evinced by His
Predictions, and contrasted with the manifold absurdities of Idolatry
The passage, which is merely a restatement of ideas already expr... 
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                        b. SHOWS THE FRAUDULENCE OF FALSE GODS
TEXT: Isaiah 44:9-20
9
They that fashion a graven image are all of them vanity; and the
things that they delight in shall not profit; and their own witnesses... 
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                        Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable
for nothing? 
 WHO HATH FORMED A GOD? - sarcastic question: 'How debased the man
must be who forms a god!' It is a contradiction in... 
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                        THE IMPOTENCE OF IDOLS
1-23. The reproach of God's people shall be entirely removed. Jehovah
the Eternal, who rules the events of history, contrasted with the
futile gods of the heathen.
24-28. This... 
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                        ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE
 ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 44
 The connection between Chapter s 43 and 44 is similar to the
connection... 
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                        מִֽי ־יָצַ֥ר אֵ֖ל וּ פֶ֣סֶל נָסָ֑ךְ לְ
בִלְתִּ֖י הֹועִֽיל׃... 
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                        Isaiah 44:1; Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 46:1; Isaiah 47:1; Isaiah 48:1
 CHAPTER IX
FOUR POINTS OF A TRUE RELIGION
Isaiah 43:1 - Isaiah 48:1
WE have now surveyed the governing truths of Isaiah 40:1; Isaia 
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                        “BESIDES ME THERE IS NO GOD”
Isaiah 44:1-11
What gracious promises are given throughout Scripture, not only to
God's children, but to their seed! Here the thirsty soul, longing for
love, sympathy, G... 
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                        The beginning of this chapter (verses Isa 44:1-5) contains the
gracious promise of the outpouring of the Spirit of God, and a
description of the blessing of refreshment and renewal which will come
to... 
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                        Who hath formed a (o) god, or cast a graven image [that] is (p)
profitable for nothing?
(o) Meaning that whatever is made by the hand of man, if it is valued
as a god, is most detestable.
(p) By whi... 
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                        What a fine contrast does this view of the dung-hill god of a man's
own creating, form with what went before, in which the glory of
Jehovah is so sublimely set forth! If there were not facts existing... 
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                        10._Who is the maker of God? _He pours ridicule on the madness of men
who dare to frame gods; for it is a shocking and detestable thing that
men should take so much upon them as to create God. Every p... 
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                        THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 44 AND 45.
Jehovah now reasons with His people whom He had formed from the womb,
encourages them, promises them His Spirit. Their children shall spring
up as... 
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                        WHO HATH FORMED A GOD,.... Who ever made one? was such a thing ever
known? or can that be a god which is made or formed? who so mad,
foolish and sottish, as to imagine he has made a god? or is it
poss... 
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                        Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image [that] is profitable
for nothing?
Ver. 10. _Who hath formed a god that is profitable for nothing?_]
_q.d,_ Who but a madman? ειδωλομανης, such as was J... 
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                        _They that make a graven image are vanity_ Hereby discover themselves
to be vain, empty, and foolish men. _And their delectable things shall
not profit_ Their idols, in which they take so much pleasur... 
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                        THE VANITY OF IDOLATRY OVER AGAINST JEHOVAH... 
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                        9-20 Image-making is described, to expose the folly of idolaters.
Though a man had used part of a log for fuel, he fell down before an
image made of the remainder, praying it to deliver him. Man grea... 
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                        What man in his wits can esteem that a god which his own hands have
formed, or melt a graven image (understand out of the former clause,
_to be his god_) which is profitable for nothing? He speaks of... 
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                        Isaiah 44:10 form H3335 (H8804) god H410 mold H5258 (H8804) image
H6459 profits H3276 (H8687) nothing H1115
1 Kings 12:28; Jeremiah 10:5; Daniel 3:1, Daniel 3:14;... 
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                        ISAIAH REVEALS THE FOLLY OF IDOLATRY (ISAIAH 44:10).
Note the contrast of this passage with what precedes it. Isaiah brings
out that while it is Yahweh Who formed Israel, the idol is merely
fashioned... 
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                        Isaiah 44:1. _Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I
have chosen: Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from
the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my Servant;... 
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                        CONTENTS: The promise of the Spirit and the coming restoration. The
folly of idolatry.
CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Cyrus.
CONCLUSION: There is no God besides Jehovah. He is infinite and
therefore... 
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                        Isaiah 44:5. _Another shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord._
This phrase is somewhat obscure; it is not said whether they signed a
covenant, or imprinted some mark on their hand. The latter sen... 
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                        _They that make a graven image_
THE VANITY OF GRAVEN IMAGES
Substituting homely prose for glowing poetry we may, after a fashion,
reduce the prophet’s thought to propositions like the following--
1... 
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                        ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 44:9 THEIR WITNESSES are the worshipers of
idols, in contrast with “my witnesses” in v. Isaiah 44:8. PUT TO
SHAME... PUT TO SHAME... PUT TO SHAME. The nothingness of idols dooms... 
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                        IDOL-MAKERS
Isaiah 44:9. _They that make a graven image, &c._
What have we in this section of this chapter? An effective exposure of
the folly of a practice that was almost universal! A fact in itsel... 
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                        EXPOSITION
ISAIAH 44:1
A PROPHECY OF ISRAEL'S SPIRITUAL RECOVERY AND REGENERATION. This
section is closely connected with Isaiah 43:1; of which it ought to
form the conclusion. The prophet cannot be... 
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                        Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen: Thus
saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which
will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesh... 
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                        1 Corinthians 8:4; 1 Kings 12:28; Acts 19:26; Daniel 3:1; Daniel 3:14;
Habakkuk 2:18; Jeremiah 10:5...