Isaiah 27:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.

This therefore

The groves

Images

2 Chronicles 14:5

2 Chronicles 34:4

General references

Ezekiel 20:34

Micah 5:12

Bible References

This therefore

Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:

When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.

My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:

And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.

But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:

But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

The groves

For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.

Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.

Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

Images

Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.

And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.

General references

And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.

And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers: