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 the Lord declares, the LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: "Ah, I will get relief from my enemies and avenge myself on my foes.

when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains of Jerusalem from its midst by a spirit of judgment and by a spirit of burning.

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

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

Blows that wound cleanse away evil; strokes make clean the innermost parts.

My son, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.

and some of the wise shall stumble, so that they may be refined, purified, and made white, until the time of the end, for it still awaits the appointed time.

But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap.

But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives."

The groves

For they shall be ashamed of the oaks that you desired; and you shall blush for the gardens that you have chosen.

For the LORD of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up--and it shall be brought low;

He will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, and he will not look on what his own fingers have made, either the Asherim or the altars of incense.

O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after you. I am like an evergreen cypress; from me comes your fruit.

and I will cut off your carved images and your pillars from among you, and you shall bow down no more to the work of your hands;

"And on that day, declares the LORD of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered no more. And also I will remove from the land the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness.

Images

He also took out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the incense altars. And the kingdom had rest under him.

And they chopped down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and he cut down the incense altars that stood above them. And he broke in pieces the Asherim and the carved and the metal images, and he made dust of them and scattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

General references

I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you are scattered, with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out.

and I will cut off sorceries from your hand, and you shall have no more tellers of fortunes;