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Isaiah 31:7

Isaiah 31:7
For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

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…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

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…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

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:…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Isaiah 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 in that method God delivers.

I. Jerusalem shall be…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Comp. Isa 30:22; Isa 17:8; Isa 2:8 and esp. Isa 2:20.