Isaiah 52:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.

Depart ye

Touch

Be

General references

Exodus 30:19

Numbers 3:8

Colossians 2:21

Bible References

Depart ye

Get out of Babylon! Flee from the Babylonians! Shout for joy as you tell it and announce it. Shout it out to the ends of the earth. Say: Jehovah has reclaimed his servant Jacob.

Wander away from the midst of Babylon. Go forth from the land of the Chaldeans. Be also like male goats at the head of the flock.

Run away from Babylon! Run for your lives! Do not be killed because of Babylon's sin. I am now taking my revenge. I am punishing it as it deserves.

Flee from the land of the north, said Jehovah. I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heavens, continued Jehovah.

Therefore come out from among them and be separate (set off) (severed from them) (excluded from them), said Jehovah. Do not touch the unclean thing and I will receive you. (Isaiah 52:11) (Jeremiah 51:45)

I heard another voice from heaven, say: Come out of her, my people, that you do not partake of her sins, and that you do not receive her plagues!

Touch

If you touch anything unclean such as an unclean dead body of a wild or tame animal or the body of an unclean, swarming creature and then ignore what you did, you are unclean and will be guilty.

All animals whose hoofs are not completely divided or that do not chew their cud are unclean for you. Whoever touches them is unclean.

Those who touch his bed must wash their clothes and their bodies. They will be unclean until evening.

They must teach my people the difference between what is holy and what is unholy. They must show the people how to tell the difference between what is clean and what is unclean.

Then Haggai asked: This person is defiled because he has touched a dead body. If he then touches any of these foods, will that make them defiled too? The priests answered, Yes.

But Peter said: No Lord for I have never eaten any thing that is defiled or unclean.

I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean in itself. If someone thinks something is unclean it is unclean to him.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead reprove (expose) (convict) them.

Live as children of obedience. Do not fashion yourself according to your former lusts, for you were ignorant at that time.

You also as living stones are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Be

Moses said to Aaron: This is what Jehovah was speaking about when he said: 'All who serve me must respect my holiness. I will reveal my glory to my people.' But Aaron remained silent.

Tell Aaron and his sons that they must respect the holy offerings that the Israelites set apart for me. In this way they will not dishonor my holy name. I am Jehovah.

King Cyrus gave back the bowls and cups that King Nebuchadnezzar took from the Temple in Jerusalem and put in the temple of his god.

I gave to them by weight the silver and the gold and the vessels, all the offering for the house of our God that the king and his wise men and his captains and all Israel there present had given:

General references

Aaron and his sons will use it for washing their hands and feet.

They will take care of all the furnishings in the tent of meeting and work for the Israelites, doing what needs to be done for the inner tent.

Do not handle. Do not taste. Do not touch.