Isaiah 28:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

Shall he teach

Weaned

General references

Jeremiah 5:4

Matthew 15:16

Mark 7:18

Bible References

Shall he teach

Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not give us word of what is true, but say false things to give us pleasure:

For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:

The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?

To whom am I to give word, witnessing so that they may take note? see, their ears are stopped, and they are not able to give attention: see, the word of the Lord has been a cause of shame to them, they have no delight in it.

And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.

So that the words of the prophet Isaiah might come true, when he said, Lord, who has any belief in our preaching? and the arm of the Lord, to whom has it been unveiled?

Weaned

At that time Jesus made answer and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children.

But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the works of power which he did, and the children crying out in the Temple, Glory to the son of David, they were angry and said to him,

Truly I say to you, Whoever does not put himself under the kingdom of God like a little child, will not come into it at all.

Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;

General references

Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.

And he said, Are you, like them, still without wisdom?

And he said to them, Have even you so little wisdom? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside is not able to make him unclean,