Albert Barnes Commentary Isaiah 31:7

Albert Barnes Commentary

Isaiah 31:7

1798–1870
Presbyterian
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes Commentary

Isaiah 31:7

1798–1870
Presbyterian
SCRIPTURE

"For in that day they shall cast away every man his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin." — Isaiah 31:7 (ASV)

For in that day - That is, in the invasion of Sennacherib, and the events that will follow from it.

Every man will cast away his idols - (see the note at Isaiah 30:22; compare the note at Isaiah 2:20).

For a sin - Or rather, the sin which your own hands have made. The sense is, that the making of those idols had been a sin, or sin itself. It had been the sin, preeminently, for which they were accountable.