Scripture Spot Logo

Verse of the Day

WEB

Author Spotlight

Loading featured author...

Report Issue

See a formatting issue or error?

Let us know →

Neither let the foreigner, who has joined himself to Yahweh, speak, saying, Yahweh will surely separate me from his people; neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.

Verse Takeaways

1

All Are Welcome in God's Family

Commentators unanimously see this verse as a prophecy of radical inclusion. Foreigners and eunuchs, groups previously excluded from full participation in Israel's assembly under the Old Testament law (Deuteronomy 23), are now explicitly invited. Scholars explain this points to the New Covenant in Christ, where barriers of ethnicity, social status, or physical condition are broken down, and all who come to God are accepted on equal footing.

See 3 Verse Takeaways

Book Overview

Isaiah

Author

Audience

Composition

Teaching Highlights

Outline

+ 5 more

See Overview

Commentaries

5

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

On Isaiah 56:3

18th Century

Theologian

Neither let the son of the stranger - The foreigner who will become a proselyte to the true religion.

That has joined himself

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

On Isaiah 56:3

19th Century

Bishop

Neither let the son of the stranger ... — Two classes of persons were likely to suffer especially from M…

John Calvin

John Calvin

On Isaiah 56:3

16th Century

Theologian

And let not the son who is a foreigner say. The Prophet shows that this grace of God will be such that even those who were former…

Premium

Go Ad-Free

Go ad-free and create your own bookmark library

John Gill

John Gill

On Isaiah 56:3

17th Century

Pastor

Neither let the son of the stranger, a Gentile, that is so by birth, the son of one that is an alien from the commonwealt…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

On Isaiah 56:3–8

17th Century

Minister

Unbelief often suggests things to discourage believers, against which God has expressly guarded. Spiritual blessings are unspeakably better than ha…