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

John 12:38

Weaned

1 Peter 2:2

General references

Jeremiah 5:4

Matthew 15:16

Mark 7:18

Bible References

Shall he teach

They say to the visionaries, "See no more visions!" and to the seers, "Don't relate messages to us about what is right! Tell us nice things, relate deceptive messages.

For you hate instruction and reject my words.

Because they hated moral knowledge, and did not choose to fear the Lord,

The prophets prophesy lies. The priests exercise power by their own authority. And my people love to have it this way. But they will not be able to help you when the time of judgment comes!

I answered, "Who would listen if I spoke to them and warned them? Their ears are so closed that they cannot hear! Indeed, what the Lord says is offensive to them. They do not like it at all.

Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

so that the word of Isaiah the prophet would be fulfilled. He said, "Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"

Weaned

Indeed I am composed and quiet, like a young child carried by its mother; I am content like the young child I carry.

At that time Jesus said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and revealed them to little children.

But when the chief priests and the experts in the law saw the wonderful things he did and heard the children crying out in the temple courts, "Hosanna to the Son of David," they became indignant

I tell you the truth, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will never enter it."

And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,

General references

I thought, "Surely it is only the ignorant poor who act this way. They act like fools because they do not know what the Lord demands. They do not know what their God requires of them.

Jesus said, "Even after all this, are you still so foolish?

He said to them, "Are you so foolish? Don't you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?