John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 9:10
The bricks are fallen down ,.... Houses made of bricks, which were without the cities besieged and destroyed by the Assyrians; of which the haughty Israelites made no account, looking upon such a desolation as little, or no loss at all: but we will build with hewn stone , so that the houses will be better and stronger, more beautiful, and more durable: the sycamores are cut down ; which grew in the fields, and outer parts of the cities, and were but a mean sort of wood, and which the... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 9:9
And all the people shall know ,.... The word of the Lord, and that it is his; and by sad experience shall feel the weight of it; or, "the people shall know the whole of it" F25 כלו "totum ejus". ; shall find that the whole of it will be accomplished, every punctilio in it; whatever is said is done, everything predicted by it, the substance of it, and every circumstance relating to it: or they shall be punished, they shall bear, know, and feel the punishment of their sins; in which... read more