Isaiah 1:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?

Isaiah 1:12 —

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Exodus 34:23
Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
Exodus 23:17
Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.
Ecclesiastes 5:1
Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
Isaiah 58:1-2
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. …
Matthew 23:5
But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 10-15)

Here, I. God calls to them (but calls in vain) to hear his word, Isa. 1:10. 1. The title he gives them is very strange; You rulers of Sodom, and people of Gomorrah. This intimates what a righteous thing it would have been with God to make them like Sodom and Gomorrah in respect of ruin (Isa. 1:9), because that had made themselves like Sodom and Gomorrah in respect of sin. The men of Sodom were wic…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. appear before me--in the temple where the Shekinah, resting on the ark, was the symbol of God’s presence (Ex 23:15; Psa 42:2). who hath required this--as if you were doing God a service by such hypocritical offerings (Job 35:7). God did require it (Ex 23:17), but not in this spirit (Mi 6:6, 7). courts--areas, in which the worshippers were. None but priests entered the temple itself.