Isaiah 40:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

Isaiah 40:18 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 46:5
To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?
1 Samuel 2:2
There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.
Isaiah 40:25
To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
Exodus 15:11
Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
Acts 17:29
Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 18-26)

The prophet here reproves those, 1. Who represented God by creatures, and so changed his truth into a lie and his glory into shame, who made images and then said that they resembled God, and paid their homage to them accordingly. 2. Who put creatures in the place of God, who feared them more than God, as if they were a match for him, or loved them more than God, as if they were fit to be rivals wi…

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

(vv. 18)

18. Which of the heathen idols, then, is to be compared to this Almighty God? This passage, if not written (as Barnes thinks) so late as the idolatrous times of Manasseh, has at least a prospective warning reference to them and subsequent reigns; the result of the chastisement of Jewish idolatry in the Babylonish captivity was that thenceforth after the restoration the Jews never fell into it. Per…