Isaiah 41:22 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may considerh them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come. ”

Isaiah 41:22 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let them bring them forth - Let the idols, or the worshippers of idols, bring forth the evidences of their divine nature and power. Or more probably it means, ‘let them draw near or approach.’...
Isaiah 41:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Yahweh's Challenge to the Gods of the Nations. The nations are bidden to produce their case and bring forward their champions their idols (so emend strong reasons). Let the idols show that in days...
Isaiah 41:22 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

22. Let them bring them forth. Not only does he attack idolaters, but he bids them bring forward the gods themselves along with them; as if he had said, “Whatever may be their ingenuity, the...
Isaiah 41:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be , that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to co...
Isaiah 41:22 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Let them bring them forth— God, teaching his people the right method of disputing against idolaters, draws an argument, and urges it strongly, from the certain prediction of future contingencies of...
Isaiah 41:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to co...
Isaiah 41:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Cyrus God's Agent 1-7. Jehovah and the gods of the heathen compared as in a court of judgment. Jehovah has raised up Cyrus and given him victory, in order to carry out His good purposes, while the...
Isaiah 41:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The former things. — Not, as the Authorised Version suggests, the things of the remote past, but those that lie at the head, or beginning of things to come — the near future. Can the false gods pre...
Isaiah 41:22 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1-31 ; Isaiah 41:1-29 ; Isaiah 42:1-25 ; Isaiah 43:1-28 ; Isaiah 44:1-28 ; Isaiah 45:1-25 ; Isaiah 46:1-13 ; Isaiah 47:1-15 ; Isaiah 48:1-22 ; Isaiah 49:1...
Isaiah 41:22 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

What the Lord's Hand Does for the Needy Isaiah 41:17-29 Life is not easy for any of us, if we regard external conditions only; but directly we learn the divine secret, rivers flow from bare hei...
Isaiah 41:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Having thus announced the majesty of Jehovah, the prophet proceeds to utter his general manifesto. This occupies Chapter s forty-one and forty-two. In chapter forty-one Jehovah challenges the island...
Isaiah 41:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Here is a solemn and unanswerable appeal to the despisers of God and his Christ, to show cause wherefore such mercy; as is in the covenant of redemption, is slighted? What the Apostle closeth one of...
Isaiah 41:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Let them bring them forth ,.... Not their reasons, as before, but their gods; let them cause them to come nigh, let them appear in court, and speak for themselves, when their worshippers have said a...
Isaiah 41:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Let them bring [them] forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they [be], that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to co...
Isaiah 41:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Produce your cause He renews his challenge to the idolaters to plead the cause of their idols, and give convincing proof of their divinity: see on Isaiah 41:1 . Bring forth your strong reasons H...
Isaiah 41:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Idolatry Exposed. B. C. 708. 21 Produce your cause, saith the L ORD ; bring forth your...
Isaiah 41:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Let them; either the idols; or, which is all one, the idolaters in the name and by the help of their idols. What shall happen; all future events; which he divides into two sorts in the following...
Isaiah 41:22 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Yahweh's Challenge To The Gods of the Nations ( Isaiah 41:21-24 ). Isaiah 41:21-23 “Produce your cause,” says Yahweh. “Bring forth your strong reasons,” says the King of Jacob. “Let them brin...
Isaiah 41:22 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 41:1 . Keep silence before me, oh islands. Commentators here refer us to the time of our Saviour's birth, for the isles of Chittim designate the Roman power. In the Augustan age, the temple...
Isaiah 41:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

SECTION II .— RECOVERY OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD FROM THEIR SIN , AND FROM THEIR BONDAGE IN BABYLON ( CH . 41-48.). EXPOSITION Isaiah 41:1-23 ANNOUNCEMENT OF...
Isaiah 41:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Coming of the Deliverer
Isaiah 41:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 42:9 ; Isaiah 43:9-12 ; Isaiah 45:21 ; Isaiah 48:14 ; John 13:19 ; John 16:14
Isaiah 41:22 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Them — The idols. Former things — Such things as should shortly come to pass. The latter end — Whether the events answer to their predictions.

Isaiah 41:22 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 41:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 41:22 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 41:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 41:22 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 41:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 41:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 41:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 41:22 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 41:22 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 41:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 41:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 41:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 41:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 41:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 41:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 41:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 41:22 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 41:22 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 41:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 41:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 41:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 41:22 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes