Isaiah 1:11-17 NIV,NKJV

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:12

When ye come to appear - Instead of לראות leraoth , to appear, one MS. has לראות liroth , to see. See De Rossi. The appearing before God here refers chiefly to the three solemn annual festivals. See Exodus 23:14 . Tread my courts (no more) - So the Septuagint divide the sentence, joining the end of this verse to the beginning of the next: Πατειν την αυλην μου, ου προσθησεσθε ; "To tread my court ye shall not add - ye shall not be again accepted in worship." read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:13

The new moons and Sabbaths "The fast and the day of restraint" - ועצרה און aven vaatsarah . These words are rendered in many different manners by different interpreters, to a good and probable sense by all; but I think by none in such a sense as can arise from the phrase itself, agreeably to the idiom of the Hebrew language. Instead of און aven , the Septuagint manifestly read צום tsom , νηστειαν , "the fast." This Houbigant has adopted. The prophet could not well have omitted... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:15

When ye spread - The Syriac, Septuagint, and a MS., read בפרשכם beparshecem , without the conjunction ו vau . Your hands "For your hands" - Αἱ γαρ χειρες - Sept. Manus enim vestrae -Vulg. They seem to have read ידיכם כי ki yedeychem . read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:16

Wash you - Referring to the preceding verse, "your hands are full of blood;" and alluding to the legal washing commanded on several occasions. See Leviticus 14:8 , Leviticus 14:9 , Leviticus 14:47 . read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:17

Relieve the oppressed "Amend that which is corrupted" - חמוץ אשרו asheru chamots . In rendering this obscure phrase I follow Bochart, (Hieroz. Part i., lib. ii., cap. 7), though I am not perfectly satisfied with this explication of it. read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:1-31

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:10-15

THE PEOPLE 'S PLEA NO EXCUSE , BUT AN AGGRAVATION OF THEIR GUILT . The prophet supposes the people, by the mouth of their rulers, to meet the charge of rebellion with an appeal to the fact that they maintain all the outward ordinances of religion, as required by the Lawn and are therefore blameless. This draws from him a burst of indignant eloquence, which the Holy Spirit directs him to put, mainly, into the mouth of God ( Isaiah 1:11-15 ), denouncing such a pretence of... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:10-17

The people's plea considered. The leading men of Jerusalem are supposed to reply to the charge of Jehovah, pointing to the elaborate manner in which his worship is kept up. And Jehovah rejects their plea with scorn. I. THE DIVINE INDIGNATION AGAINST WICKEDNESS . No more scathing denunciation could there be than to term the rulers of the holy city "chiefs of Sodom," and the people in general "people of Gomorrah." Those were names of horror and shame. Christ used them in the same... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:10-20

The prophetic strain. Isaiah had gone only a very little way in his testimony when he broke into the true prophetic strain. The prophets were God's witnesses against the mere shows and semblances of piety, and for the reality of godliness and virtue; they lived to expose the false and to expound the true, to pierce with keen edged sword that which was hollow and rotten, and to commend with glowing zeal that which was sound and good. Here we have a deliverance which evidently came hot from a... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:11

To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? Cui bono? What good end do they serve? "Thinkest thou that I will eat the flesh of bulls, and drink the blood of goats? "( Psalms 1:1-6 :13). God "delights not in burnt offerings." From the time of Samuel he had declared, "Behold, to obey is better then sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams" ( 1 Samuel 15:22 ). David had said of him, "Sacrifice and meat offering thou wouldest not; burnt offerings and sacrifice for... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:12

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:13

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:15

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:16

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 1:17

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:1-31

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:10-15

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:10-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:10-20

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:11

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