Isaiah 66:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child. ”

Isaiah 66:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Before she travailed, she brought forth - That is, Zion. The idea here is, that there would be a great and sudden increase of her numbers. Zion is here represented, as it often is, as a female (s...
Isaiah 66:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Before (h) she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a male child. (h) Meaning, that the restoration of the church would be so sudden and contrary to all men's opi...
Isaiah 66:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 66. Here divisions are hard to define. The theme the coming punishment of the apostates and the coming glory of the pious is pursued now on one side, now on the other. Isaiah 66:1-4 . An...
Isaiah 66:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

she brought forth. This is the birth of the new nation. These are the "birth pangs" (or "sorrows") of Matthew 24:8 . In Revelation 12:1 ; Revelation 12:2 we have one part of the type in the per...
Isaiah 66:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

7. Before she travailed, she brought forth. Having formerly comforted believers, that they might not be discouraged by the insolence and contempt of brethren, whom he would at length punish,...
Isaiah 66:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.
Isaiah 66:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Before she travailed, &c.— Another consolatory argument is here urged, to those who reverence the word of Jehovah, who form the true Sion, taken from the sudden and wonderful increase of th...
Isaiah 66:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child. She - Zion. Before she travailed, she brought forth. The accession of numbers, and of prosperi...
Isaiah 66:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. Where , etc.] RV 'what manner of house.. what place shall be my rest.' The v. is a strong rebuke of such as, without a really religious spirit, idly trusted in the inviolability of Zion, and th...
Isaiah 66:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Before she travailed... — The mother, as the next verse shows, is Zion; the man-child, born at last without the travail-pangs of sorrow, is the new Israel, the true Israel of God. The same figure h...
Isaiah 66:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XXV A LAST INTERCESSION AND THE JUDGMENT Isaiah 63:7 through Isaiah 66:1-24 WE might well have thought, that with the section we have been considering the prophecy of Israel's Redemp...
Isaiah 66:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

God's People Made a Blessing Isaiah 66:1-14 The prophet forecasts the advent of a new day, when places and rites would be comparatively unimportant compared with the condition of the heart, Is...
Isaiah 66:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This last chapter is confessedly difficult of interpretation. In it the prophet seems to look beyond all that he has previously described, and to deal with destiny. He first announces anew the fact o...
Isaiah 66:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Perhaps the voice here spoken of, means the voice of the gospel: and the effects of it follow. Quick was the success, when the Holy Ghost came upon them that heard the voice. Jehovah inquireth whethe...
Isaiah 66:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Before she travailed, she brought forth ,.... That is, Zion, as appears from the following verse: lest it should be thought that the interest of Christ would be swallowed up and lost in the destruct...
Isaiah 66:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child. Ver. 7. Before she travailed, she brought forth. ] Quum nondum parturiret peperit; understand it...
Isaiah 66:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Here begins a new paragraph of the prophet's discourse, containing a description of the sudden and great increase of the Christian Church, upon God's rejecting the Jews, and destroying their temple a...
Isaiah 66:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Encouragement to the Persecuted; The Enlargement of the Church. B. C. 706. 5 Hear the...
Isaiah 66:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The whole verse is expressive of a great and sudden salvation, which God would work for his church, like the delivery of a woman, and that of a man child, before her travail, and without pain . Th...
Isaiah 66:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Yahweh Comforts Those Who Fear Him Truly In The Face Of Their Treatment By The Formalists. He Tells Them A New Day Is Coming, A Day Of Great Change ( Isaiah 66:5-9 ). Isaiah 66:5 “Hear the word...
Isaiah 66:7 - Scofield Reference Notes

travailed ( Isaiah 66:7 ); ( Isaiah 66:8 ). ( See Scofield) - ( Micah 5:1 ).
Isaiah 66:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 66:1 . The heaven is my throne. This chapter applies to Isaiah's time, as well as to future times; and though the Lord rejected the impure worship of the temple, yet he would dwell with the...
Isaiah 66:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

Before she travailed, she brought forth The new Israel The predictive message of our prophet is now so far advanced that the future promised is at the door; the Church of the future is already...
Isaiah 66:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

SECTION XII .— FINAL THREATENINGS AND PROMISES ( Isaiah 66:1-23 .). EXPOSITION Isaiah 66:1-23 THE UNGODLY EXILES REBUKED . Israel, being about to return from the Captivity...
Isaiah 66:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Abominations of a Dead Worship and The Birth of the New Church
Isaiah 66:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Galatians 4:26 ; Isaiah 54:1 ; Revelation 12:1-5
Isaiah 66:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Before — The whole verse is expressive of a great and sudden salvation, which God would work for his church, like the delivery of a woman, and that of a man — child, before her travail, and without...

Isaiah 66:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 66:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 66:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 66:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 66:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 66:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 66:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 66:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 66:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 66:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 66:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 66:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 66:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 66:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 66:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 66:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 66:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 66:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 66:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 66:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 66:7 - Scofield Reference Notes

Isaiah 66:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 66:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 66:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 66:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 66:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 66:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes