Isaiah 46:1

Bel boweth down, Nevo stoopeth low, 1 their atzabim (idols) were upon the beasts, and upon the behemah; 1 your litters were heavy laden; 1 they are a massa (burden) to the weary beast. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.

In Context

2They stoop, they bow down together; 1 they + 46:2 Bel and Nevo, g-ds of Babylon could not save the massa (burden), 1 but their own selves are gone into shevi (captivity, Golus). 1

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Cross References

Exodus 12:12For I will pass through Eretz Mitzrayim balailah hazeh, and will strike fatally kol bechor Eretz Mitzrayim, both adam and behemah; and against all the elohei Mitzrayim I will execute judgment; I am Hashem.

Job 39:11Wilt thou depend on him, because his ko'ach is great, 1 or wilt thou hand over thy heavy work to him? 1

Isaiah 21:9And, hinei, here cometh a merkavah with a man, 1 a pair of parashim. And he answered and said, 1 Bavel (Babylon) is fallen, is fallen; 1 and all the pesilim (images) of her elohim (g-ds) 1 hath been shattered on the ground. 1

Jeremiah 10:5They + 10:5 the idols are upright as the tomer (palm tree), 1 but speak not; 1 they must needs be carried, 1 because they cannot go. 1 Be not afraid of them; 1 for they cannot do rah, 1 neither also is it in them to do tov. 1

Jeremiah 48:7For because thou hast trusted 1 in thy ma'asim (works) and in thy otzarot, 1 thou shalt also be captured; 1 and Kemosh shall go forth into Golus 1 with his kohanim and his sarim together. 1

Jeremiah 51:44And I will punish Bel + 51:44 Marduk in Bavel, 1 and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath gulped down; 1 and the Goyim shall not stream together any more unto him; 1 indeed, the chomat Bavel shall fall. 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 46:1

God, by the prophet here, designing shortly to deliver them out of their captivity, prepared them for that deliverance by possessing them with a detestation of idols and with a believing confidence in God, even their own God. I. Let them not be afraid of the idols of Babylon, as if they could in any way obstruct their deliverance, for they should be defaced ( ver. 1, 2 ); but let them trust in that God who had often delivered them to do it still, to do it now, ver. 3, 4 . II. Let them not think to make idols of… Read the whole commentary →

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