Isaiah 2:3

People from many people-groups will say to each other, “Come, let’s go up to the hill, to the temple of Yahweh, to worship the God whom Jacob worshiped. There Yahweh will teach us what he desires us to know, in order that our behavior will please him. His teaching will be given to us in Jerusalem, and we will take his message from Jerusalem to other places/nations.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

In Context

2I saw that in the future, the hill on which Yahweh’s temple is built will be the most important place on the earth; it will be as though it is the highest mountain, as though it has been raised up above all other hills; and people from all over the world will come there.

4Yahweh will listen to the disputes between nations and he will settle their arguments. Then, instead of fighting against each other, they will hammer their swords into plow blades, and they will hammer their spears into pruning knives. The armies of nations will no longer fight against each other, and they will not even train men to fight in battles/wars.”

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 6:1“These are the commandments and rules and regulations that Yahweh our God commanded me to teach to you. He wants you to obey them in the land that you are about to enter and occupy.

Esther 9:27the Jews throughout the empire agreed to celebrate in that manner on those two days every year. They said that they would tell their descendants and those people who became Jews to be certain to celebrate this festival every year. They should celebrate just as Mordecai told them to do in the letter that he wrote.

Psalms 102:23But now you have caused me to become weak while I am still young; I think that I will ◄not live much longer/ very long/soon die►.

Isaiah 1:26After that happens, I will give you good judges like you had previously; you will have wise counselors like you had long ago. Then people will call your city “a city where people act righteously, a city where people are loyal to me.”'”

Isaiah 19:23At that time, there will be a highway between Egypt and Assyria. As a result, the people of Egypt will be able to travel easily to Assyria, and the people of Assyria will be able to travel easily to Egypt. And the people of both countries will worship Yahweh.

Isaiah 51:4My people of Judah, listen carefully [DOU] to me, because I want you to proclaim my laws; the just/right things that I do will be like [MET] a light for the people of the nations.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 2:2-6

Increase of the Church Predicted. ( b. c. 758.) 1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord 's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. 3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord , to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his… Read the whole commentary →

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