Isaiah 8:13

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

⁹Huddle together, O peoples, and be shattered; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for battle, and be broken; prepare for battle, and be dismayed. ¹⁰Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us." ¹¹For this is what the LORD spoke to me with a strong hand, instructing me not to walk in the way of this people: ¹²"Do not call conspiracy everything these people regard as conspiracy. Do not fear what they fear; do not live in dread. ¹³The LORD of Hosts is the One to regard as holy. Only He should be feared; only He should be dreaded,¹⁴and He will be a sanctuary. But to both houses of Israel He will be a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, a trap and a snare to the dwellers of Jerusalem." ¹⁵Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be ensnared and captured.

Bible Verse Review
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Sanctify: Isaiah 26:3, Isaiah 26:4, Leviticus 10:3, Numbers 20:12, Numbers 20:13, Numbers 27:14, Romans 4:20

and let him: Genesis 31:53, Psalms 76:7, Malachi 2:5, Matthew 10:28, Luke 12:5, Revelation 15:4

Reciprocal: Genesis 28:16 - and I Genesis 31:42 - fear Exodus 14:10 - sore afraid Exodus 20:20 - his fear Deuteronomy 20:3 - be ye terrified Deuteronomy 32:51 - because ye 2 Kings 6:16 - Fear not Job 13:11 - his dread Psalms 34:9 - fear Psalms 119:165 - nothing shall offend them Proverbs 3:25 - Be Isaiah 5:16 - sanctified Isaiah 10:24 - be not afraid Isaiah 29:23 - sanctify Isaiah 37:16 - Lord Isaiah 51:13 - feared Hosea 14:9 - and the Romans 11:9 - their table 2 Thessalonians 2:2 - shaken Hebrews 11:23 - and they 1 Peter 3:14 - and be

Cross-References

Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself,.... Christ, Immanuel, God with us, the Lord of the armies above and below, of angels and of men, God over all, the true Jehovah, who is sanctified by his people, when they declare him to be so; as the Targum paraphrases it,

"the Lord of hosts, him shall ye say is holy;''

for they cannot make him so, nor can he receive any holiness from them, nor does he need any; but they celebrate the perfection of his holiness, and ascribe it to him; yea, they sanctify him, by ascribing their holiness to him; by looking to him as their sanctification, and by deriving and expecting every degree and measure of holiness from him, to complete theirs; by exercising faith upon him, and showing a regard to his commands and ordinances:

and [let] him [be] your fear, and [let] him [be] your dread; that is, the object of fear and dread; not of a servile fear and dread, but of a holy reverence and godly fear; such a fear as is the grace of the covenant, which flows from the goodness of God, and has that for its object, and is influenced by it; see Hosea 3:5 where the same Lord, Messiah, David the king, is meant, as here. See 1 Peter 3:15.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Sanctify ... - Regard Yahweh as holy; that is, worship and honor him with pious fear and reverence. Regard him as the source of safety, and the true defense. Ahaz and his people sought for aid from Assyria against the armies of Syria and Samaria. The direction here is rather to seek aid from God.

Let him be your fear - Do not be alarmed at what man can do Isaiah 8:12, but fear and honor God. Be afraid to provoke his wrath by looking to other sources of help when his aid only should be sought.