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Selected Verse: Isaiah 36:20 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Isa 36:20 |
King James |
Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| (Compare Isa 10:11; Ch2 32:19). Here he contradicts his own assertion (Isa 36:10), that he had "come up against the land with the Lord." Liars need good memories. He classes Jehovah with the idols of the other lands; nay, thinks Him inferior in proportion as Judah, under His tutelage, was less than the lands under the tutelage of the idols. |
10 And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
19 And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man.
11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?