For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold—sin which your own hands have made for you.
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For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold—sin which your own hands have made for you.
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For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.
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For in that day they shall cast away every man his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.
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Passages linked to Isaiah 31:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Isaiah 30:22 You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, “Go away!”
- Isaiah 2:20 In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats,
- Ezekiel 36:25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, and from all your idols.
- Deuteronomy 7:25 You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
- Hosea 14:8 Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green cypress tree; from me your fruit is found.”
- 1 Kings 12:28-30 So the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look and behold your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!” He set the one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. This thing became a sin; for the people went even as far as Dan to worship before the one there.
- Hosea 8:11 Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they became for him altars for sinning.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain By these fruits your repentance shall be known, as…
By these fruits your repentance shall be known, as Isa. 2:20.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Isa 31:7 For in that day every man shall…
Isa 31:7 For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you [for] a sin.
Ver. 7. For in that day,] scil., Of your effectual conversion; {Isa 30:22} or, when the Assyrian shall assault you, then you shall see the vanity of your idols, and of all human helps. {Isa 2:20; Isa 2:22}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain For when the Assyrian shall invade your land, you…
For when the Assyrian shall invade your land, you shall find the vanity of those idols to which you have trusted; and therefore shall cast them away with indignation, and be forced to seek to me for help. So this is added as an argument to persuade them to practise his counsel of turning to God. Which your own hands have made unto you for a sin; which you have made as instruments of your sin of idolatry. Or, which your sinful hands (by a common Hebraism, called hands of sin) have made for you. Or, the sin (as an idol is called, Deu 9:21) which your hands have made for you. So there is only a transposition of one word, which is very usual in the Hebrew text.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain For in that day,.... When deliverance shall be wrought;…
For in that day,.... When deliverance shall be wrought; when men shall be convinced of the vanity and insufficiency of their idols to help them, and of their sin in worshipping them; when they shall be brought to repentance for it, and turn to the Lord as an evidence of it:
every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold; with contempt and abhorrence of them, as the word (w) signifies; every man "his" own idol, and even those that were of the greatest value, which were made of gold and silver:
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which your own hands have made unto you for a sin; their idols were the work of their own hands, and were made by them in order to commit sin with, the sin of idolatry; or sin may be put for the punishment of sin, which is the issue and consequence of such practices: or it may be rendered, "which your hands of sin", or "sinful hands, have made" (x); it was a sin to make such idols, especially with a view to worship them; it was a sin to worship them; and the fruit of it was deserved punishment.
(w) a "spernere, reprobare." (x) "manus vestrae flagitiosae", Bootius Animadv. Sacr. l. 4. c. 2. sect. 12.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 7. Which your own hands have made unto…
Verse 7. Which your own hands have made unto you for a sin - "The sin, which their own hands have made."] The construction of the word חטא chet, sin, in this place is not easy. The Septuagint have omitted it: MSS. Pachom. and I. D. II. and Cod. Marchal. in margine, supply the omission by the word ἁμαρτιαν, sin, or ἁμαρτημα, said to be from Aquila's Version, which I have followed. The learned Professor Schroeder, Institut. Ling. Heb. p. 298, makes it to be in regimine with ידיכם yedeychem, as an epithet, your sinful hands. The Septuagint render the pronoun in the third person, αἱ χειρες αυτων, their hands; and an ancient MS. has, agreeable to that rendering, להם lahem, to them, for לכם lachem, to you; which word they have likewise omitted, as not necessary to complete the sense.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain For in that day - That is, in the…
For in that day - That is, in the invasion of Sennacherib, and the events that shalt be consequent thereon.
Every man shall cast away his idols - (see the note at Isa 30:22; compare the note at Isa 2:20).
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For a sin - Or rather, the sin which your own hands have made. The sense is, that the making of those idols had been a sin, or sin itself. It had been “the” sin, by way of eminence, which was chargeable upon them.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Idols. Their worship was afterwards more severely prohibited, chap.…
Idols. Their worship was afterwards more severely prohibited, chap. xxx. 21.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain In the day of trial the idols will be…
In the day of trial the idols will be found to render no help and will therefore be cast away. Compare as to the future restoration and conversion of Israel simultaneously with the interposition of Jehovah in its defense, Zac 12:9-14; Zac 13:1-2.
for a sin--that is, whereby especially you contracted guilt (Kg1 12:30).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 7, 8. In that day — The day of…
7, 8. In that day — The day of the surrender of idolatry. Idols of silver…
of gold — By such means idolatry was raised to precious attractiveness.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 7. Comp. Isa_30:22, Isa_17:8, Isa_2:8 and esp. Isa_2:20.
7. Comp. Isa_30:22, Isa_17:8, Isa_2:8 and esp. Isa_2:20.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (7) In that day every man shall cast away…
(7) In that day every man shall cast away . . .—The act is the same as that of Isa_2:20, but with a marked difference of motive: there it springs from the terror of despair, here from the repentance which is the ground of hope.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain For in that day every man shall cast away…
For in that day every man shall cast away his idols. "In that day the day of Assyria"s discomfiture shall the vanity of idols be seen and recognized. They have not helped Assyria. How should they help Judah? (comp. Isa_30:22)
Vers. 7-9. The fire of Jehovah.
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I "OUR GOD IS A CONSUMING FINE." He burns from that sacred oracular center in Jerusalem. And his foes are seen melting away before him the Assyrian fleeing from and falling before the sword, the huge rock of his power disappearing, princes falling into panic terror as the rallying signal of Judah is raised. The briars and thorns of iniquity, all the weed-like growth of worldly ways are kindled and devoured.
II OUR GOD IS A LIGHT OF SALVATION. "Light of Israel" goes along with devouring fire". (Isa_10:17) To be enlightened is to know God and our relation to him. It is to know what is not Divine, and what is sinful, and what is worthless in reference to salvation. And so the people, having returned," will be seen respecting their "not-gods of silver and their not-gods of gold," the sinful manufacture of godless art.
III THERE MUST BE BOTH THE FIERY AND THE ILLUMINATING ELEMENT IS TRUE RELIGION. Enthusiasm is needed; without it we have no motive force. Evil will yield to nothing else than to the heart aflame with piety, the tongue of Heaven-kindled fire. Yet blind zeal is mischievous; and therefore the illuminated mind is needed, the discriminating intelligence. The union of intellect with piety, the white heat of zeal kindling all it touches into light-giving flame, what can resist it? J.
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