Isaiah 6:10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.

The heart

Fat

Deuteronomy 32:15

Psalm 17:10

Ears heavy

Jeremiah 6:10

Zechariah 7:11

Convert

Isaiah 19:22

Matthew 13:15

General references

Exodus 10:20

Deuteronomy 28:28

Deuteronomy 29:4

Bible References

The heart

For the LORD shall give you a hard-sleeping spirit, and close your eyes. Your Prophets also, and heads which should see; them shall he cover.

O LORD wherefore hast thou led us out of thy way? Wherefore hast thou hardened our hearts, that we fear thee not? Be at one with us again, for thy servants' sake that are of the generation of thine heritage.

But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that I may multiply my miracles and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let them go.

And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh. But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his land.

And behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians that they may follow you. And I will get me honour upon Pharaoh and upon all his host, upon his chariots and upon his horsemen.

But Sihon, the king of Heshbon, would not let us pass by him; for the LORD thy God had hardened his spirit and made his heart tough because he would deliver him into thy hands as it is come to pass this day.

Not to many nations which have divers speeches and hard languages, whose words thou understandest not. Nevertheless, if I sent thee to those people, they would follow thee:

to the one part are we the savor of death unto death; and unto the other part are we the savor of life unto life. And who is mete unto these things?

Fat

"And Israel waxed fat, and kicked. Thou wast fat, thick and smooth. And he let God go, that made him; and despised the rock that saved him.

They are enclosed in their own fat, and their mouth speaketh proud things.

Ears heavy

But unto whom shall I speak, whom shall I warn, that he may take heed? Their ears are so uncircumcised, that they may not hear. Behold, they take the word of God but for a scorn, and have no lust thereto.

Nevertheless, they would not take heed, but turned their backs and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

Convert

Thus the LORD shall smite Egypt, and heal it again: and so shall they turn to the LORD, and he also shall have mercy upon them, and save them.

For this people's hearts are waxed gross. And their ears were dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their hearts, and should turn, that I might heal them.

General references

But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go.

And the LORD shall smite thee with madness, blindness and dazing of heart.

And yet the LORD hath not given you a heart to perceive, nor eyes to see, nor ears to hear unto this day.