Isaiah 9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness - This commences the third part of the prophecy, which continues to the end of the chapter. It is a description of prevailing impiety. The effects and prevalence of it are described by the image of a raging, burning flame, that spreads everywhere: first among the humble shrubbery - the briers and thorns, then in the vast forests, until it spreads over the land, and sends a mighty column of flame and smoke up to heaven.Burneth as the fire - Spreads, rages. extends as fire does in... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 9:19

Through the wrath - By the anger, or indignation. This spreading desolation is the proof of his anger.Is the land darkened - The word used here - עתם ‛âtham - occurs nowhere else. According to Gesenius, it is the same as תמם tâmam to be or make complete; and hence means, “in this place, to be consumed, or laid waste.” Kimchi and Aben Ezra render it, ‘The land is darkened.’ Septuagint, Συγκέκαυται Sungkekautai. Chaldee, צרוכת chărôkat - ‘Is scorched.’ Jerome renders it, Conturbata est terra... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 9:20

And he shall snatch - Hebrew, ‘He shall cut off.’ Many have supposed that this refers to a state of famine; but others regard it as descriptive of a state of faction extending throughout the whole community, dissolving the most tender ties, arid producing a dissolution of all the bonds of life. The context Isaiah 9:19, Isaiah 9:21 shows, that the latter is meant; though it is not improbable that it would be attended with famine. When it is said that he ‘would cut off his right hand,’ it denotes... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 9:21

Manasseh, Ephraim - This verse is a continuation of the statement in regard to the extent and fearfulness of the faction. Those who were hitherto most tenderly and intimately allied to each other, would now be engaged in furious strife. Manasseh and Ephraim were the two sons of Joseph Genesis 46:20, and their names are used as expressive of tender union and friendship; compare Genesis 48:20. The tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh were near each other, and they always were allied together. The... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 9

A.M. 3264. B.C. 740. Joy in the midst of affliction, Isaiah 9:1-5 . The birth, person, office, and kingdom of Christ, Isaiah 9:6 , Isaiah 9:7 . Judgments for their pride, Isaiah 9:8-12 . For their impenitency and hypocrisy, Isaiah 9:13-21 . read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 9:1

Isaiah 9:1. Nevertheless, &c. In the Hebrew, this verse is joined to the preceding chapter, as it is also in Bishop Lowth’s translation; and if it be considered as connected therewith, and the connecting particle, כי , be translated for, (which is its usual meaning,) instead of nevertheless, the words may be understood to express an aggravation of the darkness, or misery, threatened in the two former verses, as the punishment of those who should reject the Messiah: thus, For the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 9:2

Isaiah 9:2. The people Israel and Judah; that walked Or sat, as it is in Matthew 4:16; in darkness Both in the darkness of ignorance, and in the darkness of calamity; have seen a great light The prophet speaks of what was future, and would not take place till after seven hundred years, as though it were already arrived. Though “there would be very many among the Jews, to whom the Messiah, arising with his new light, would be an offence; who would resist his salutary doctrine, and... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 9:3

Isaiah 9:3. Thou hast multiplied the nation Thou hast made good thy promise to Abraham, concerning the multiplication of his seed, by adding his spiritual seed unto the carnal, by gathering in the Gentiles to the Jews, and making them both one people in Christ, John 10:16; Ephesians 2:14. For, in the Scriptures, the believing Gentiles are accounted the seed of Abraham as well as the Jews, Galatians 3:7-9. Or, as the Hebrew may be rendered, Thou hast magnified the nation, honoured it with... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 9:4

Isaiah 9:4. For thou hast broken, &c. Bishop Lowth translates this verse, For the yoke of his burden, the staff laid on his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor hast thou broken, as in the day of Midian. The Jews had been under the yoke repeatedly, to one hostile people or another, and had been sorely oppressed by them; formerly by the Philistines, Moabites, Ammonites, and Midianites, and, in after times, by the Assyrians, Chaldeans, Persians, and Macedonians; and many and successive... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 9:5

Isaiah 9:5. For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, &c. With the triumphant exclamations of the conqueror, and the bitter lamentations of the conquered, and the different cries of the same persons, sometimes conquering and sometimes conquered; and garments rolled in blood With great difficulty and slaughter. But this shall be with burning, &c. But this victory, which God’s people shall have over all their enemies, shall be more terrible to their adversaries,... read more

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 9:18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 9:19

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 9:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 9:21

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 9

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 9:1

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 9:2

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 9:3

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 9:4

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 9:5

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