So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.
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Gill's Exposition
So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith,.... The carpenter, when he had made a wooden image, encouraged and hastened the goldsmith, or the "finer", as some render it, to do his part, in covering it…
Barnes' Notes
So the carpenter - (See the note at Isa 40:19). Encouraged the goldsmith - Margin, ‘The founder’ (see the note at Isa 40:19). The word properly means one who melts or smelts metals of any kind; and…
That particular instance of God's care for his people Israel in raising up Cyrus to be their deliverer is here insisted upon as a great proof both of his sovereignty above all idols and of his power…
Cambridge Bible
the carpenter stands here for the same word as workman in Isa 40:19: it denotes an "artificer" either in metal or wood or stone.
he that smoothethwith the hammer probably the man who fits on the…
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