Isaiah 56:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; ”

Isaiah 56:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs - Even the eunuchs, who have hitherto been excluded from the privileges of the people of God, and who have been regarded as a separated and degraded peopl...
Isaiah 56:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 56:1-8 . A Gracious Promise to Proselytes and Eunuchs. We find ourselves conscious in this oracle of a change of atmosphere and setting. The Temple is built, and the centre of an elabor...
Isaiah 56:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

choose. See note on Isaiah 1:29 .
Isaiah 56:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

4. For thus saith Jehovah. Now follows a confirmation; for the sincere worshippers of God, who keep the sabbaths and follow the righteousness of the Law, though they be “eunuchs,” (97) or l...
Isaiah 56:4 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 988 ACCEPTANCE FOR ALL SINCERE WORSHIPPERS Isaiah 56:4-7 . Thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covena...
Isaiah 56:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
Isaiah 56:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Neither let the son of the stranger, &c.— The strangers and eunuchs were excluded from the privileges of native Jews. In this period they are informed that the time is coming when those dis...
Isaiah 56:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; For thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that ... please me...
Isaiah 56:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1, 2. Further conditions to be observed that men may share in the approaching deliverance.
Isaiah 56:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

BOOK 4 THE RESTORATION WE have now reached the summit of our prophecy. It has been a long, steep ascent, and we have had very much to seek out on the way, and to extricate and solve and load our...
Isaiah 56:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Blessedness of Sabbath-Keeping Isaiah 56:1-12 The bright array of Messianic promises, which occupied the preceding Chapter s, is now followed by a portion of less interest, seeing that our...
Isaiah 56:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This division ends with two Chapter s (56 and 57) which set forth certain aspects of the administration of the Kingdom. The first is intended to comfort those who by recent promises of restoration ma...
Isaiah 56:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The sorrow of Israel was great, if any family or tribe went childless; Jeremiah 22:30 . And the reason, over and above the common affliction of barrenness in a house, was, because the prospect Israe...
Isaiah 56:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths ,.... That fear and serve the Lord; religiously observe all times of divine worship, and walk in all the commandments and ordinances of...
Isaiah 56:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose [the things] that please me, and take hold of my covenant; Ver. 4. For thus saith the Lord. ] Who "comforteth those that...
Isaiah 56:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Neither let the son of the stranger The Gentile, who by birth is a stranger to God, and to the commonwealth of Israel. That hath joined himself to the Lord That hath turned from dumb idols to the...
Isaiah 56:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Encouragement to the Sincere; Encouragement to the Gentiles. B. C. 706. 3 Neither let...
Isaiah 56:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Choose the things that please me; that observe my commands, not by custom, or force, or fear, but by free choice, and full consent, with love to them and delight in them. Take hold of my covenant;...
Isaiah 56:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Welcome Given To Eunuchs and Strangers To Enter Fully Into the House of Yahweh ( Isaiah 56:1-8 ). God's true people are to live in readiness for the day of deliverance ( Isaiah 56:1 b), and o...
Isaiah 56:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

JOINED TO THE LORD Isaiah 56:3 ; Isaiah 56:6 . The sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord . The end of all worship is union with God. To this most glorious issue all the revelati...
Isaiah 56:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 56:1 . Keep ye judgment, as a preparation for the Messiah's advent, who is here called, Salvation; and whose righteousness and mercy are the only ground of a sinner's justification, adoptio...
Isaiah 56:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

Neither let the son of the stranger “The son of the stranger” “The son of the stranger” means simply the individual foreigner (R.., “the stranger”), not one whose father was a foreigner. ( Prof...
Isaiah 56:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Isaiah 56:1-23 AN EXHORTATION TO OBSERVE THE LAW , ESPECIALLY THE LAW OF THE SABBATH , COMBINED WITH PROMISES . There was much of the Law which it was...
Isaiah 56:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Admonition And Comfort to the Afflicted
Isaiah 56:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 23:5 ; Hebrews 6:17 ; Isaiah 27:5 ; Isaiah 55:3 ; Jeremiah 50:5 ; Joshua 24:15 ; Luke 10:42 ; Psalms 119:111
Isaiah 56:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Take hold — That stedfastly keep the conditions of my covenant.

Isaiah 56:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 56:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 56:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 56:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 56:4 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Isaiah 56:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 56:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 56:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 56:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 56:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 56:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 56:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 56:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 56:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 56:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 56:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 56:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 56:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 56:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 56:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Isaiah 56:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 56:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 56:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 56:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 56:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 56:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes