Isaiah 56:3-5

Salvation for Foreigners

³ Let not _y the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord say,
"The Lord will surely separate me from his people";
and let not the eunuch say,
"Behold, I am _z a dry tree."
⁴ For thus says the Lord:
"To the eunuchs _x who keep my Sabbaths,
who choose the things that please me
and hold fast my covenant,
⁵ _a I will give in my house and within my walls
a _b monument and a name
better than sons and daughters;
_c I will give them an everlasting name
that shall not be cut off.

1. Cross References
   Isaiah 14:1
   For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and will set them in their own land, and sojourners will join them and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob.
   Deuteronomy 23:7 - 8
   You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you were a sojourner in his land.
   
2. Cross References
   Ezekiel 17:24
   And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the Lord ; I bring low the high tree, and make high the low tree, dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree flourish. I am the Lord ; I have spoken, and I will do it.
   Ezekiel 20:47
   Say to the forest of the Negeb, Hear the word of the Lord : Thus says the Lord God, Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you and every dry tree. The blazing flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from south to north shall be scorched by it.
   
3. Cross References
   Isaiah 56:2
   Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath, not profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.
   
4. Cross References
   1 Timothy 3:15
   If I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.
   Revelation 3:12
   The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.
   
5. Cross References
   2 Samuel 18:18
   Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself the pillar that is in the King's Valley, for he said, "I have no son to keep my name in remembrance." He called the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absalom's monument to this day.
   John 1:12
   But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.
   
6. Cross References
   2 Timothy 2:19
   But God's firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: "The Lord knows those who are his," and, "Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.