Isaiah 41:23 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²³Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.

Isaiah 41:23 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 13:19
Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he.
Isaiah 42:9
Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
Jeremiah 10:5
They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
Isaiah 44:7-8
And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them. …
Isaiah 46:9-10
Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, …

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Commentary

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

(vv. 21-29)

The Lord, by the prophet, here repeats the challenge to idolaters to make out the pretentions of their idols: “ Produce your cause (Isa. 41:21) and make your best of it; bring forth the strongest reasons you have to prove that your idols are gods, and worthy of your adoration.” Note, There needs no more to show the absurdity of sin than to produce the reasons that are given in defence of it, for t…

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

(vv. 23)

23. do good ... evil--give any proof at all of your power, either to reward your friends or punish your enemies (Psa 115:2-8). that we may be dismayed, and behold it together--Maurer translates, “That we (Jehovah and the idols) may look one another in the face (that is, encounter one another, 2Ki 14:8, 11), and see” our respective powers by a trial. Horsley translates, “Then the moment we behold,…