Isa 46 | TSK | STEP | The idols of Babylon could not save themselves. God saves his people to the end. Idols are not comparable to God for power, or present salvation. Bel.Bel, called Belus by the Greek and Roman writers, is the same as Baal; and Nebo is interpreted by Castell and Norberg of Mercury; the two principal idols of Babylon. When that city was taken by the Persians, these images were carried in triumph. a burden.

Isaiah 46

1 The idols of Babylon could not save themselves.

3 God saves his people to the end.

5 Idols are not comparable to God for power,

12 or present salvation.

Bel.Bel, called Belus by the Greek and Roman writers, is the same as Baal; and Nebo is interpreted by Castell and Norberg of Mercury; the two principal idols of Babylon. When that city was taken by the Persians, these images were carried in triumph.

21:9; 41:6,7; Ex 12:12; 1Sa 5:3; Jer 48:1-25; 50:2; 51:44,47,52

a burden.

2:20; Jer 10:5

they could.

36:18,19; 37:12,19; 44:17; 45:20

but.

Jud 18:17,18,24; 2Sa 5:21; Jer 43:12,13; 48:7

themselves are. Heb. their soul is.

Hearken.

44:1,21; 48:1,17,18; 51:1,7; Ps 81:8-13

the remnant.

1:9; 10:22; 11:11; 37:4

borne.

44:1,2; 49:1,2; 63:9; Ex 19:4; De 1:31; 32:11,12; Ps 22:9,10; 71:6

Eze 16:6-16

even to your.

41:4; 43:13,25; Ps 92:14; 102:26,27; Mal 2:16; 3:6; Ro 11:29

Heb 1:12; 13:8; Jas 1:17

even to hoar.

Ps 48:14; 71:18

40:18,25; Ex 15:11; Ps 86:8; 89:6,8; 113:5; Jer 10:6,7,16; Php 2:6

Col 1:15; Heb 1:3

lavish.

40:19,20; 41:6,7; 44:12-19; 45:20; Ex 32:2-4; Jud 17:3,4

1Ki 12:28; Jer 10:3,4,9,14; Ho 8:4-6; Hab 2:18-20; Ac 17:29

they fall.

2:8; 44:17; Da 3:5-15

they carry him.

1Sa 5:3; Jer 10:5; Da 3:1

one shall cry.

37:38; 45:20; Jud 10:12-14; 1Ki 18:26,40; Jer 2:28; Jon 1:5,14-16

Remember.

44:18-21; De 32:29; Ps 115:8; 135:18; Jer 10:8; 1Co 14:20

bring.

47:7; Eze 18:28; Hag 1:5,7; Lu 15:17; Eph 5:14

the former.

42:9; 65:17; De 32:7; Ne 9:7-37; Ps 78:1-72; 105:1-106:48; 111:4

Jer 23:7,8; Da 9:6-15

I am God.

45:5,6,14,18,21,22

and there is none like.

5; De 33:26

the end.

41:22,23; 44:7; 45:21; Ge 3:15; 12:2,3; 49:10,22-26; Nu 24:17-24

De 4:24-31; 28:15-68; Ac 15:18

My counsel.

11; 43:13; Ps 33:11; 135:6; Pr 19:21; 21:30; Da 4:35; Ac 3:23

Ac 4:27,28; 5:39; Ro 11:33,34; Eph 1:9-11; Heb 6:17

Calling.

13:2-4; 21:7-9; 41:2,25; 45:1-6; Jer 50:29; 51:20-29

a ravenous bird.Or, "an eagle," a very proper emblem for Cyrus, says Bp. Lowth, as in other respects, so particularly because the ensign of Cyrus was a golden eagle, [aetos chrusous,] the very word {ayit,} which the prophet uses here, expressed as near as may be in Greek letters.

Eze 39:4

the man.

44:28; 45:13; 48:14,15; Ezr 1:2; Ps 76:10; Ac 4:28

that executeth my counsel. Heb. of my counsel.

Ps 119:24; *marg:

I have spoken.

14:24-27; 38:15; Nu 23:19; Job 23:13; Jer 50:45; Ac 5:39; Eph 1:11

Eph 3:11

Hearken.

3; 28:23; 45:20; Ps 49:1; Pr 1:22,23; 8:1-5; Eph 5:14; Re 3:17,18

ye stouthearted.

48:4; Ps 76:5; Zec 7:11,12; Mal 3:13-15; Ac 7:51