Bible Strands
Isaiah 56:5
I will give them, in My house and within My walls, a memorial and a name better than that of sons and daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The LORD addresses eunuchs who keep His Sabbath and hold fast to His covenant (v. 4), with foreigners who join themselves to Him (v. 6) in the same frame. This is a prophetic declaration that the new covenant community will include those outside the normal lineage.
The words — יָד (yad) is literally "hand" but here functions as "monument" or "memorial," a standing marker. The BSB renders it "memorial," yet the Hebrew is the same word used for physical hand and for power or authority.
The thread — Revelation 3:12 promises an everlasting name written on a pillar in God's temple that will never leave it; Revelation 3:5 promises a name never blotted out from the Book of Life. 1 John 3:1 grounds the identity "children of God" in the Father's love rather than in natural descent.
Why it lands — The verse does not offer a consolation prize but a status explicitly ranked above biological offspring. It asks the reader to reckon with what "better than sons and daughters" means when applied to one's own sense of belonging.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
Cross-references
- Revelation 3:12 The one who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never again leave it. Upon him I will write the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God (the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from My God), and My new name.
- Revelation 3:5 Like them, he who overcomes will be dressed in white. And I will never blot out his name from the Book of Life, but I will confess his name before My Father and His angels.
- 1 John 3:1 Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.
- Isaiah 55:13 Instead of the thornbush, the cypress will grow, and instead of the brier, the myrtle will spring up; this will make a name for the LORD, an everlasting sign, never to be destroyed.”
- John 1:12 But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—
- 1 Timothy 3:15 in case I am delayed, so that you will know how each one must conduct himself in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
- Isaiah 26:1 In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; salvation is established as its walls and ramparts.
- Isaiah 48:19 Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand, and your offspring as numerous as its grains; their name would never be cut off or eliminated from My presence.”
- Isaiah 60:18 No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders. But you will name your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.
- Isaiah 62:12 And they will be called the Holy People, the Redeemed of The LORD; and you will be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.