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Text -- Isaiah 31:7 (NET)

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31:7 For at that time everyone will get rid of the silver and gold idols your hands sinfully made.
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JFB: Isa 31:7 - -- 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 ...

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, Zec 12:9-14; Zec 13:1-2.

JFB: Isa 31:7 - -- That is, whereby especially you contracted guilt (1Ki 12:30).

That is, whereby especially you contracted guilt (1Ki 12:30).

Clarke: Isa 31:7 - -- 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 t...

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 1. D. 2 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. Hebrews 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.

Calvin: Isa 31:7 - -- 7.For in that day He continues the subject which he began in the former verse. Yet there is this difference, that in the former verse he exhorted to ...

7.For in that day He continues the subject which he began in the former verse. Yet there is this difference, that in the former verse he exhorted to repentance, but now he points out the fruits of repentance, which, we know, is the customary way of teaching in Scripture; for, since repentance is concealed within us, and has its root in the heart, it must be made known by the practical result, and by works, as “a tree shews by its fruits” (Mat 7:17) its inherent goodness; and therefore he points out repentance by works which are the fruit of it. 322

Shall cast away the idols When he speaks of “idols” only, it is by a figure of speech frequently employed in Scripture, in which a part is taken for the whole; for the Prophet undoubtedly intended to speak of the whole of man’s conversion, but, as it would have been tedious to enumerate all the kinds, under one of them he includes all the rest. Now, the beginning of repentance is the change of the heart; and next we must come to outward fruits, that is, to works. Above all, we must observe the object which the Prophet had in view in discoursing about repentance. It was because the Lord had promised salvation near at hand; and, that they might be capable of it, he exhorts them to repentance. Hence it ought to be observed that, when we persevere in being wicked, we resist God by our wickedness, and thus restrain his grace from assisting us; and, therefore, that the way may be open for God’s assistance, he demands that we shall repent.

He calls them The idols of his silver and the idols of his gold, because, as we have formerly seen, 323 they who sincerely repent are affected by deep grief for their sin, so that the traces of their superstitions, which are stamped with the highest dishonor of God, cannot be beheld by them without the greatest horror. On this account they abhor them, and do not dread the loss of “gold or silver,” to testify their conversion and their faith; for he who has sincerely renounced superstitions does not spare any expense in order to possess the pure worship of God. This is what the Prophet intended to express by calling them “gold and silver” rather than wood and stone. However excellent anything may be, the loss of it is a happy event when we are cleansed from such base and abominable pollutions. Those who retain them, though they profess to be Christians, shew that they are still involved in the remains of superstition; and hence it is evident that their hearts are not truly or completely reformed. In this matter we must listen to none of the excuses which we frequently hear from the lips of hypocrites, who cannot absolutely renounce idolatry, “What could I do? How could I live? I am aware that this revenue, this ‘gold,’ is detestable in the sight of God, because it arises from idolatry; but in some way or other my life must be supported.” Away with such fooleries! say I; for where the conversion of the heart is real, that which cannot be retained without insulting or dishonoring God is instantly thrown away.

Which your own hands have made The Prophet urges them to make a more full acknowledgment of their sin; for, when men are accused, they generally throw the blame on some other person, and do not willingly allow it to fall on themselves, or acknowledge that it is chargeable upon them; in like manner as the common people willingly accuse the priests, but no man is willing to acknowledge his own guilt. The Prophet therefore bids them look to “their own hands,” that they may know that they have committed so great a crime. He reminds them, at the same time, how grossly they have been deceived by their unbelief in making gods to themselves; and hence we ought to conclude that God rejects everything that is of our contrivance, and that he cannot accept as good that worship which has originated with ourselves.

I consider חאט , ( chēt,) sin, to be a noun; 324 as if he had said, “Whenever you behold idols, behold your guilt; acknowledge the proofs of your treachery and revolt; and if you are truly converted to God, shew it practically, that is, by throwing away idols and bidding adieu to superstitions; for this is the true fruit of conversion.”

TSK: Isa 31:7 - -- in that : Isa 2:20, Isa 30:22; Deu 7:25; Eze 36:25; Hos 14:8 his idols of gold : Heb. the idols of his gold for a sin : 1Ki 12:28-30; Hos 8:11

in that : Isa 2:20, Isa 30:22; Deu 7:25; Eze 36:25; Hos 14:8

his idols of gold : Heb. the idols of his gold

for a sin : 1Ki 12:28-30; Hos 8:11

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Isa 31:7 - -- 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 ...

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).

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.

Poole: Isa 31:7 - -- 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...

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.

Haydock: Isa 31:7 - -- Idols. Their worship was afterwards more severely prohibited, chap. xxx. 21.

Idols. Their worship was afterwards more severely prohibited, chap. xxx. 21.

Gill: Isa 31:7 - -- 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 o...

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:

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.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Isa 31:7 Heb “the idols of their idols of silver and their idols of gold which your hands made for yourselves [in] sin.” חָט’...

Geneva Bible: Isa 31:7 For in that day every man shall ( g ) cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made to you [for] a sin. ( g ) ...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Isa 31:1-9 - --1 The prophet shews the folly and danger of trusting to Egypt, and forsaking God.6 He exhorts to conversion.8 He shews the fall of Assyria.

MHCC: Isa 31:6-9 - --They have been backsliding children, yet children; let them return, and their backslidings shall be healed, though they have sunk deep into misery, an...

Matthew Henry: Isa 31:6-9 - -- This explains the foregoing promise of the deliverance of Jerusalem; she shall be fitted for deliverance, and then it shall be wrought for her; for ...

Keil-Delitzsch: Isa 31:7 - -- The first is, that idolatry would one day be recognised in all its abomination, and put away. "For in that day they will abhor every one their silv...

Constable: Isa 7:1--39:8 - --III. Israel's crisis of faith chs. 7--39 This long section of the book deals with Israel's major decision in Isa...

Constable: Isa 13:1--35:10 - --B. God's sovereignty over the nations chs. 13-35 This major section of the book emphasizes the folly of ...

Constable: Isa 28:1--33:24 - --3. The folly of trusting the nations chs. 28-33 Chapters 28-35 are somewhat similar to chapters ...

Constable: Isa 31:1--32:20 - --The woe against rejecters of God's help chs. 31-32 Like the third "woe" (ch. 30), this fourth one deals with the folly of trusting in Egypt for securi...

Guzik: Isa 31:1-9 - --Isaiah 31 - The LORD Will Give Victory, Not Egypt A. The folly of trusting in Egypt. 1. (1) Woe to those who look to Egypt, not the LORD. Woe to t...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Isaiah (Book Introduction) ISAIAH, son of Amoz (not Amos); contemporary of Jonah, Amos, Hosea, in Israel, but younger than they; and of Micah, in Judah. His call to a higher deg...

JFB: Isaiah (Outline) PARABLE OF JEHOVAH'S VINEYARD. (Isa. 5:1-30) SIX DISTINCT WOES AGAINST CRIMES. (Isa. 5:8-23) (Lev 25:13; Mic 2:2). The jubilee restoration of posses...

TSK: Isaiah (Book Introduction) Isaiah has, with singular propriety, been denominated the Evangelical Prophet, on account of the number and variety of his prophecies concerning the a...

TSK: Isaiah 31 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Isa 31:1, The prophet shews the folly and danger of trusting to Egypt, and forsaking God; Isa 31:6, He exhorts to conversion; Isa 31:8, H...

Poole: Isaiah (Book Introduction) THE ARGUMENT THE teachers of the ancient church were of two sorts: 1. Ordinary, the priests and Levites. 2. Extraordinary, the prophets. These we...

Poole: Isaiah 31 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 31 The folly and punishment of trust in Egypt, Isa 31:1-3 . God will fight for Jerusalem, Isa 31:4,5 , if they will turn unto him, Isa 31:6...

MHCC: Isaiah (Book Introduction) Isaiah prophesied in the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. He has been well called the evangelical prophet, on account of his numerous and...

MHCC: Isaiah 31 (Chapter Introduction) (Isa 31:1-5) The sin and folly of seeking help from Egypt. (Isa 31:6-9) God's care for Jerusalem.

Matthew Henry: Isaiah (Book Introduction) An Exposition, With Practical Observations, of The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Prophet is a title that sounds very great to those that understand it, t...

Matthew Henry: Isaiah 31 (Chapter Introduction) This chapter is an abridgment of the foregoing chapter; the heads of it are much the same. Here is, I. A woe to those who, when the Assyrian army ...

Constable: Isaiah (Book Introduction) Introduction Title and writer The title of this book of the Bible, as is true of the o...

Constable: Isaiah (Outline) Outline I. Introduction chs. 1-5 A. Israel's condition and God's solution ch. 1 ...

Constable: Isaiah Isaiah Bibliography Alexander, Joseph Addison. Commentary on the Prophecies of Isaiah. 1846, 1847. Revised ed. ...

Haydock: Isaiah (Book Introduction) THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAS. INTRODUCTION. This inspired writer is called by the Holy Ghost, (Ecclesiasticus xlviii. 25.) the great prophet; from t...

Gill: Isaiah (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH This book is called, in the New Testament, sometimes "the Book of the Words of the Prophet Esaias", Luk 3:4 sometimes only t...

Gill: Isaiah 31 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 31 This chapter denounces woe to those that trusted in the Egyptians; assures the Jews of God's care and protection of them;...

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