Isaiah 8:20

Go and examine God's law and his instructions! If what they say doesn't correspond with God's word, there will be no dawn for them.

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In The King James Version

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

In Context

19When someone suggests to you, “Go and ask mediums and spiritists who whisper and mutter,” shouldn't people ask their God? Why should they ask the dead on behalf of the living?

21They will wander around the country, depressed and hungry. When they are starving they will become furious, and looking up they will curse their king and their God.

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Cross References

Ezra 10:3Let us make a solemn agreement right now before our God that we will send away all the foreign wives and their children. We will follow the directions given by you and those who respect the instructions of our God, carried out according to the Law.

Psalms 119:130Studying your words brings light so that even the uneducated can understand.

Isaiah 1:10Listen to what the Lord has to say, you rulers of Sodom! Pay attention to the instructions of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

Isaiah 30:8Now go and write all this down on a tablet and on a scroll so that it will last forever and ever.

Hosea 6:3Let's get to know the Lord, really strive to know him, and he will appear to us as surely as the sun will rise; he will come to us as certainly as the spring rains fall on the earth.”

Malachi 4:2But for those who have reverence for me, the sun of God's salvation will rise with healing in its wings, and you will be set free, leaping like calves released from their stalls.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 8:17-22

The Importance of the Scriptures. ( b. c. 740.) 16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. 17 And I will wait upon the Lord , that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. 18 Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion. 19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto… Read the whole commentary →

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