Adam Clarke Commentary - Isaiah 51:16

Adam Clarke Commentary - Isaiah 51:16 - 51:16

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Adam Clarke Commentary - Isaiah 51:16 - 51:16

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This Chapter Verse Commentaries:

51:1 - 51:1
51:2 - 51:2
51:4 - 51:4
51:5 - 51:5
51:6 - 51:6
51:11 - 51:11
51:13 - 51:13
51:14 - 51:14
51:16 - 51:16
51:17 - 51:17
51:19 - 51:19
51:20 - 51:20
51:21 - 51:21
51:23 - 51:23

That I may plant the heavens “To stretch out the heavens” - In the present text it is לנתע lintoa, “to plant the heavens:” the phrase is certainly very obscure, and in all probability is a mistake for לנטות lintoth. This latter is the word used in Isa 51:13 just before, in the very same sentence; and this phrase occurs very frequently in Isaiah, Isa 40:22, Isa 42:5, Isa 44:24, Isa 45:12; the former in no other place. It is also very remarkable, that in the Samaritan text, Num 24:6, these two words are twice changed by mistake, one for the other, in the same verse.