Isaiah 57:1
The tzaddik perisheth, 1 and no ish layeth it to lev; 1 and anshei chesed are taken away, 1 none considering that the tzaddik is taken away 1 from the ra'ah (evil, calamity) to come. 1
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1 Kings 14:13And kol Yisroel shall mourn for him, and bury him; for he only of Yarov'am shall come to the kever (grave), because in him there is found some davar tov (good thing) toward Hashem Elohei Yisroel in the Bais Yarov'am.
2 Chronicles 32:33And Chizkiyahu (Yechizkiyahu) slept with Avotav, and they buried him on the ascent in kivrei Bnei Dovid; and all Yehudah and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim did him kavod at his mot. And Menasheh bno reigned in his place.
2 Chronicles 35:24His avadim therefore took him out of that merkavah, and put him in the mishneh merkavah that he had; and they brought him to Yerushalayim, and he died, and was buried in the kivrot Avotav. And all Yehudah and Yerushalayim mourned for Yoshiyahu.
Isaiah 42:25Therefore He hath poured upon it 1 the chemah (burning heat) of His anger, 1 and the strength of the fury of milchamah; 1 and it hath set him on fire round about, 1 yet it knew not; 1 and it consumed it, 1 yet it laid it not to lev.
Isaiah 57:11And of whom hast thou dreaded or feared, 1 that thou hast lived a lie, 1 and hast not remembered Me, 1 nor laid it to thy lev (i.e., pondered it)? 1 Have not I held My peace me'olam (even from of old), 1 and thou fearest Me not? 1
Malachi 2:2If ye will not hear, 1 and if ye will not take it to lev, 1 to give kavod unto My name, 1 saith Hashem Tzva'os, 1 I will even send a me'erah (curse) upon you, 1 and I will curse your brakhot; yea, 1 I have cursed them already, 1 because ye do not take it to lev. 1
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 57:1
The prophet, in this chapter, makes his observations, I. Upon the deaths of good men, comforting those that were taken away in their integrity and reproving those that did not make a due improvement of such providences, ver. 1, 2 . II. Upon the gross idolatries and spiritual whoredoms which the Jews were guilty of, and the destroying judgments they were thereby bringing upon themselves, ver. 3-12 . III. Upon the gracious returns of God to his people to put an end to their captivity and re-establish their… Read the whole commentary →