Isa 60:13, Eze 34:25-26, Amo 9:13-15, Mic 7:14-15, Zep 3:19-20 | TSK | STEP | The glory.That is, the cedar; and as the choice timber of Lebanon beautified Solomon's temple, that footstool of Jehovah; so shall the peculiar advantages of every nation, and of every description of men, concur to beautify the church of Christ, which He has determined to make glorious. The language then becomes more energetic, and the images employed more grand and magnificent; and nothing can answer to the glorious description but some future exalted state of the church on earth, or the church triumphant in heaven; though several expressions seem to limit it to the church below. to beautify. the place.

Isaiah 60:13

The glory.That is, the cedar; and as the choice timber of Lebanon beautified Solomon's temple, that footstool of Jehovah; so shall the peculiar advantages of every nation, and of every description of men, concur to beautify the church of Christ, which He has determined to make glorious. The language then becomes more energetic, and the images employed more grand and magnificent; and nothing can answer to the glorious description but some future exalted state of the church on earth, or the church triumphant in heaven; though several expressions seem to limit it to the church below.

35:2; 41:19,20; 55:13; Ho 14:6,7

to beautify.

Ezr 7:27

the place.

66:1; 1Ch 28:2; Ps 96:6; 132:7

Ezekiel 34:25-26

I will make.

37:26; Isa 55:3; Jer 31:31-33; Zec 6:13; Heb 13:20

and will.

Le 26:6; Job 5:22; Isa 11:6-9; 35:9; Ho 2:18-23

and they.

28; Ps 4:8; Jer 23:6; 33:16

make them.

Ge 12:2; Isa 19:24; Zec 8:13,23

my hill.

20:40; Ps 2:6; 68:16; 132:14-16; 133:3; Isa 2:2-4; 56:7; Mic 4:1,2

I will cause.

Le 26:4

showers.

De 28:12; Ps 68:9; Isa 32:15,20; 44:3; Mal 3:10

Amos 9:13-15

plowman.

Le 26:5; Eze 36:35; Ho 2:21-23; Joh 4:35

soweth. Heb. draweth forth. the mountains.

Isa 35:1,2; 55:13; Joe 3:18,20

sweet wine. or, new wine. the hills.

5; Jud 5:5; Ps 97:5

I will bring.

Ps 53:6; Jer 30:3,18; 31:23; Eze 16:53; 39:25; Joe 3:1,2

build.

Isa 61:4; 65:21; Jer 30:18; 31:38-40; Eze 36:33-36; 37:25-28

plant.

5:11; Isa 62:8,9; Eze 28:26; Zep 1:13

they shall.As the Jews, after their return from Babylon, were driven from their land by the Romans, this can only refer to their future conversion and restoration, and to the security and peace of the church.

Isa 60:21; Jer 24:6; 32:41; Eze 34:28; 37:25; Joe 3:20; Mic 4:4