Isaiah 48:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name.

Isaiah 48:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Micah 3:11
The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
Isaiah 10:20
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
Isaiah 52:1
Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
Romans 2:17
Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
Matthew 27:53
And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 1-8)

We may observe here, I. The hypocritical profession which many of the Jews made of religion and relation to God. To those who made such a profession the prophet is here ordered to address himself, for their conviction and humiliation, that they might own God’s justice in what he had brought upon them. Now observe here, 1. How high their profession of religion soared, what a fair show they made in…

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

(vv. 2)

2. For--Ye deserve these reproofs; “for” ye call yourselves citizens of “the holy city” (Is 52:1), but not in truth (Is 48:1; Ne 11:1; Da 9:24); so the inscription on their coins of the time of the Maccabees. “Jerusalem the Holy.”