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, Jehovah 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 scoured out the blood of Jerusalem from its midst, by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

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

Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep thy word.

Wounding stripes purge away evil, and strokes purge the inner parts of the belly.

Eat honey, my son, for it is good; and a honeycomb is sweet to thy taste:

And some of the wise shall fall, to try them, and to purge and to make them white, to the time of the end: for it shall yet be for the time appointed.

But who shall endure the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? For he will be like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' lye.

But being judged, we are disciplined of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

for whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.

The groves

For they shall be ashamed of the terebinths that ye have desired, and ye shall blush for the gardens that ye have chosen.

For there shall be a day of Jehovah of hosts upon everything proud and lofty, and upon everything lifted up, and it shall be brought low;

And he will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, nor have regard to what his fingers have made, neither the Asherahs nor the sun-images.

Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? (I answer him, and I will observe him.) I am like a green fir-tree. From me is thy fruit found.

Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy statues out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more bow down to the work of thy hands.

And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah 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

And he removed out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun-images; and the kingdom was quiet before him.

And they broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and the sun-pillars that were on high above them he cut down; and the Asherahs and the graven images and the molten images he broke in pieces, and made dust of them and strewed it upon the graves of those that had sacrificed to them;

General references

And I will bring you out from the peoples, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with fury poured out;

And I will cut off sorceries out of thy hand; and thou shalt have no soothsayers.