Isaiah 26:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.

Isaiah 26:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Revelation 5:9
And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
Psalms 118:20
This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.
1 Peter 2:9
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
Isaiah 60:11
Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.
Isaiah 62:10
Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.

Topics

Cities Gates Godliness Holiness Israel, Prophecies Concerning Market Perfection Sanctification

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-4)

To the prophecies of gospel grace very fitly is a song annexed, in which we may give God the glory and take to ourselves the comfort of that grace: In that day, the gospel day, which the day of the victories and enlargements of the Old-Testament church was typical of (to some of which perhaps this has a primary reference), in that day this song shall be sung; there shall be persons to sing it, and…

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

(vv. 2)

2. Address of the returning people to the gates of Jerusalem (type of the heavenly city, He 12:22); (Psa 24:7, 9; 118:19). Antitypically (Re 22:14; 21:25, 27). righteous nation--that had not apostatized during the captivity. Horsley translates, “The nation of the Just One,” namely, the Jews.