Isaiah 51:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

Isaiah 51:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 33:24
Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.
Galatians 3:9-14
So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. …
Romans 4:1-5
What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? …
Hebrews 11:8-12
By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. …
Genesis 24:1
And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.

Topics

Abraham Atheism Attributes of God Blessing Call Generals, Distinguished God Guidance

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-3)

Observe, 1. How the people of God are here described, to whom the word of this consolation is sent and who are called upon to hearken to it, Isa. 51:1. They are such as follow after righteousness, such as are very desirous and solicitous both to be justified and to be sanctified, are pressing hard after this, to have the favour of God restored to them and the image of God renewed on them. These ar…

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

(vv. 2)

2. alone--translate, “I called him when he was but one” (Eze 33:24). The argument is: the same God who had so blessed “one” individual, as to become a mighty nation (Ge 12:1; 22:7), can also increase and bless the small remnant of Israel, both that left in the Babylonish captivity, and that left in the present and latter days (Zec 14:2); “the residue” (Is 13:8, 9).