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Isaiah 66:21
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19 aI will set a sign among them; and those among them who escape I will send to the nations: to Tarshish and Pul and Lud, who draw the bow, and Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off who have not heard My fame nor seen My glory. bAnd they shall declare My glory among the Gentiles.  
20 Then they shall abring all your brethren bfor an offering to the Lord out of all nations, on horses and in chariots and in litters, on mules and on camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the Lord, “as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord.  
21 And I will also take some of them for apriests and Levites,” says the Lord. 
22 “For as athe new heavens and the new earth
Which I will make shall remain before Me,” says the Lord,
“So shall your descendants and your name remain. 
23 And ait shall come to pass
That from one New Moon to another,
And from one Sabbath to another,
bAll flesh shall come to worship before Me,” says the Lord. 
24 “And they shall go forth and look
Upon the corpses of the men
Who have transgressed against Me.
For their aworm does not die,
And their fire is not quenched.
They shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.” 
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Isaiah 66:21

And I will also take of them for priests - I will give to them an honorable place in my public service; that is, I will make them ministers of religion as if they were priests and Levites. This cannot be taken literally - because the priests and Levites among the Jews were determined by law, and by regular genealogical descent, and there was no provision for substituting any in their place. But it must mean that under the condition of things described here, those who should be brought from the distant pagan world would perform the same offices in the service of God which had been performed formerly by the priests and Levites that is, they would be ministers of religion. The services of God would no longer be performed by the descendants of Aaron, or be limited to them, but would be performed by others who should be called to this office from the pagan world.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Isaiah 66:21:

Isaiah 66:3
Jeremiah 33:17-18

 

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