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

For this reason the Lord, the Lord of armies, the Strong One of Israel, has said, I will put an end to my haters, and send punishment on those who are against me;

When Zion has been washed from her sin by the Lord, and Jerusalem made clean from her blood by a judging and a burning wind.

See, I have been testing you for myself like silver; I have put you through the fire of trouble.

Before I was in trouble I went out of the way; but now I keep your word.

By the wounds of the rod evil is taken away, and blows make clean the deepest parts of the body.

My son, take honey, for it is good; and the flowing honey, which is sweet to your taste:

And some of those who are wise will have wisdom in testing themselves and making themselves clean, till the time of the end: for it is still for the fixed time.

But by whom may the day of his coming be faced? and who may keep his place when he is seen? for he is like the metal-tester's fire and the cleaner's soap.

But if punishment does come, it is sent by the Lord, so that we may be safe when the world is judged.

For the Lord sends punishment on his loved ones; everyone whom he takes as his son has experience of his rod.

The groves

For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.

For the day of the Lord of armies is coming on all the pride of men, and on all who are high and lifted up;

He will not be looking to the altars, the work of his hands, or to the wood pillars or to the sun-images which his fingers have made.

As for Ephraim, what has he to do with false gods any longer? I have given an answer and I will keep watch over him; I am like a branching fir-tree, from me comes your fruit.

And I will have your images and your pillars cut off from you; and you will no longer give worship to the work of your hands.

And it will come about on that day, says the Lord of armies, that I will have the names of the images cut off out of the land, and there will be no more memory of them: and I will send all the prophets and the unclean spirit away from the land.

Images

And he took away the high places and the sun-images from all the towns of Judah; and the kingdom was quiet under his rule.

He had the altars of the Baals broken down, while he himself was present; and the sun-images which were placed on high over them he had cut down; and the pillars of wood and the metal images he had broken up and crushed to dust, dropping the dust over the resting-places of the dead who had made offerings to them.

General references

And I will take you out from the peoples and get you together out of the countries where you are wandering, with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with burning wrath let loose:

I will put an end to your use of secret arts, and you will have no more readers of signs: