The Meaning of Isaiah 66:21 Explained

Isaiah 66:21

KJV: And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the LORD.

YLT: And also of them I take for priests, For Levites, said Jehovah.

Darby: And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith Jehovah.

ASV: And of them also will I take for priests and for Levites, saith Jehovah.

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Isaiah 66:21?

MEANING: What does Isaiah 66:21 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Isaiah 66:21 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Isaiah 66:21?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And I will also take  of them for priests  [and] for Levites,  saith  the LORD. 

What does Isaiah 66:21 Mean?

Verse Meaning

Evidently the Lord will "take" some of these converted Gentiles and make them leaders in His worship (cf. Isaiah 56:5-6). He would accept Gentile believers as freely as Israelite believers, and would bless them with equal privilege in His service.
". . . all the nations will in fact be blessed through Israel (cf. Genesis 12:3)." [1]

Context Summary

Isaiah 66:15-24 - All Flesh Shall Worship The Lord
The prophet makes it clear that, whatever blessings accrue in the golden future, they will be apportioned to those alone, who are the Israel of God, not merely by descent but in heart and life. They must be what the Apostle describes in Philippians 3:3. Those who were bent on practicing idolatrous rites, such as passing in procession, with priests as teachers, through gardens and groves devoted to impurity; or who, by partaking of the flesh of animals forbidden in the Levitical law, had become as Gentiles, must suffer with the heathen.
Isaiah 66:19 suggests that the restored Jewish remnant are to become the future missionaries of the world; and the book closes with a vision of the Holy City as the focus and center of the religious life of mankind. It is as though, like John, Isaiah beheld her descending from God out of heaven, with wide-open gates, through which the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor, Isaiah 66:20. The lot of all enemies of goodness is depicted in the everburning fires of Tophet-the rubbish heaps of which are significant of uselessness, Isaiah 66:24.
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Chapter Summary: Isaiah 66

1  The glorious God will be served in humble sincerity
5  He comforts the humble by showing the confusion of their enemies
7  With the marvelous growth
10  And the gracious benefits of the church
15  God's severe judgments against the wicked
18  The Gentiles shall have an holy church
24  And see the damnation of the wicked

What do the individual words in Isaiah 66:21 mean?

And also some of them I will take for priests [and] Levites says Yahweh
וְגַם־ מֵהֶ֥ם אֶקַּ֛ח לַכֹּהֲנִ֥ים לַלְוִיִּ֖ם אָמַ֥ר יְהוָֽה

וְגַם־  And  also 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Conjunction
Root: גַּם  
Sense: also, even, indeed, moreover, yea.
מֵהֶ֥ם  some  of  them 
Parse: Preposition-m, Pronoun, third person masculine plural
Root: הֵם 
Sense: they, these, the same, who.
אֶקַּ֛ח  I  will  take 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, first person common singular
Root: יָקַח 
Sense: to take, get, fetch, lay hold of, seize, receive, acquire, buy, bring, marry, take a wife, snatch, take away.
לַכֹּהֲנִ֥ים  for  priests 
Parse: Preposition-l, Article, Noun, masculine plural
Root: כֹּהֵן  
Sense: priest, principal officer or chief ruler.
לַלְוִיִּ֖ם  [and]  Levites 
Parse: Preposition-l, Proper Noun, masculine plural
Root: לֵוִי  
Sense: the descendants of Levi, the 3rd son of Jacob by Leah.
אָמַ֥ר  says 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: אָמַר 
Sense: to say, speak, utter.
יְהוָֽה  Yahweh 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יהוה 
Sense: the proper name of the one true God.

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