Isaiah 1:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ When ye come to appearf before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? ”

Isaiah 1:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

When you come to appear before me - The temple was in Jerusalem, and was regarded as the habitation, or dwelling-place, of the God of Israel. Particularly, the most holy place of the temple was d...
Isaiah 1:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

This connects admirably with Isaiah 1:9 . By a fine transition Isaiah intimates that it is no merit in the rulers which has averted Sodom's fate. Let these lawless and shameless administrators liste...
Isaiah 1:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

to appear, &c. Reference to Pentateuch. See note ( Exodus 23:15 ). tread . trample, and thus profane. Hebrew. ramas. Ezekiel 26:11 ; Ezekiel 34:18 ; Daniel 8:7 ; Daniel 8:10 .
Isaiah 1:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

12. Who hath required this at your hand ? What an admirable confutation of false worship, when God declares that they will not come before him according to the appointed manner, and makes a...
Isaiah 1:12 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 858 THE SERVICE WHICH ALONE IS PLEASING TO GOD Isaiah 1:10-17 . Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha: To what purpose...
Isaiah 1:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? When ye come to appear - Instead of לראות leraoth, to appear, one MS. has לראות liroth, to see. See De Rossi...
Isaiah 1:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? When ye come to appear before me - in the temple, where the Shechinah, resting on the ark, was the s...
Isaiah 1:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jehovah's Arraignment of His People This chapter is general in character, and much of it (e.g. Isaiah 1:10-17 ) might refer to almost any period. This general character of the prophecy renders it...
Isaiah 1:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

When ye come to appear before me. — Literally, before my face. This is the meaning given by the present Hebrew text, and it is, of course, adequate. The Syriac version and some modern scholars (...
Isaiah 1:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER I THE ARGUMENT OF THE LORD AND ITS CONCLUSION Isaiah 1:1-31 -His General Preface THE first chapter of the Book of Isaiah owes its position not to its date, but to its character. It was...
Isaiah 1:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Religion without Righteousness Vain Isaiah 1:10-20 The prophet points out, first the misery that had overtaken the country, Isaiah 1:4-9 ; and then the sins of the ruling classes, Isaiah 1:10...
Isaiah 1:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah was a prophet to Judah. He exercised his ministry wholly within her borders, and with a view to her correction and comfort. His burdens of the nations were uttered concerning those nations whi...
Isaiah 1:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I make no break in this address of the prophet. The whole forms but one sermon, and a most striking one it is. I beg the reader to remark with me the very pointed terms made use of by the man of God....
Isaiah 1:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

When ye come to appear before me ,.... At the grand festivals of the passover, pentecost, and tabernacles, at which times all the males in Israel appeared before God, Exodus 23:17 who hath requi...
Isaiah 1:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? Ver. 12. When ye come to appear before me. ] Heb., To be seen; else all had been lost. Hypocrisy is very...
Isaiah 1:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

To what purpose, &c., your sacrifices unto me? Who am a Spirit, and therefore cannot be satisfied with such carnal oblations, but expect to be worshipped in spirit and in truth, and to have you...
Isaiah 1:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Vanity of Mere Ritual Obedience. B. C. 738. 10 Hear the word of the L ORD , ye rul...
Isaiah 1:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

When ye come to appear before me, upon the three solemn feasts, Exodus 23:17 , Exodus 34:23 , or upon other occasions. Who hath required this at your hands, to wit, in this manner, and upon t...
Isaiah 1:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah Outlines The Message He Is Bringing ( Isaiah 1:1-31 ). This introductory message is also presented in balanced chiastic form. a He calls on Creation to be aware of God's judgment on His pe...
Isaiah 1:12 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Isaiah 1:12-13 Such texts as this ought to terrify us. For they speak of religious people and of a religious nation, and of a fearful mistake which they were making, and a fearful danger into whic...
Isaiah 1:12 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

This is a chapter which, I think, teaches an important lesson to those of us who desire the salvation of men, for it shows us how God sets about that work. He begins by exhibiting the sinner's sin to...
Isaiah 1:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 1:1 . The vision. What the prophet saw with the eyes of his mind, concerning the state of Judah and Jerusalem, his ministry being chiefly confined to the kingdom of Judea. Isaiah, the son...
Isaiah 1:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken God finds vindication in nature I well remember two funerals going out of my house within a few brief months during my residence...
Isaiah 1:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

PART I.— EARLIER PROPHECIES OF ISAIAH ( CH . 1-35.) SECTION I.— THE GREAT ARRAIGNMENT ( Isaiah 1:1-23 .). EXPOSITION Isaiah 1:1 TITLE OF THE WORK . It is questioned...
Isaiah 1:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Rebuke of Hypocritical Worship
Isaiah 1:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 16:16 ; Ecclesiastes 5:1 ; Exodus 23:17 ; Exodus 34:23 ; Isaiah 58:1 ; Isaiah 58:2 ; Micah 6:8 ; Matthew 23:5 ; Psalms 40:6
Isaiah 1:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

To appear — Upon the three solemn feasts, or upon other occasions. Who required — The thing I commanded, was not only, nor chiefly, that you should offer external sacrifices, but that you should do...

Isaiah 1:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 1:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 1:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 1:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 1:12 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Isaiah 1:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 1:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 1:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 1:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 1:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 1:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 1:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 1:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 1:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 1:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 1:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 1:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 1:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 1:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 1:12 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Isaiah 1:12 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Isaiah 1:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 1:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 1:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 1:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 1:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 1:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes