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Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Isaiah 11:1-16

CHAPTER 11 The Coming King and His Kingdom 1. The King: Who He is and what He will do (Isaiah 11:1-5 ) 2. The peace and blessing He brings (Isaiah 11:6-10 ) 3. The gathering of scattered Israel (Isaiah 11:11-16 ) It is a great vision of the future which this chapter unfolds. The critics deny that the blessed Person mentioned in the opening verses is our Lord Jesus. They think Hezekiah or Josiah is meant. 2 Thessalonians 2:8 shows that it is our Lord. Link Isaiah 11:1-5 with Isaiah 9:6-7... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Isaiah 11:1-16

JUDGMENT ON ASSYRIA The verses intervening since the last lesson apply to Israel, and are comparatively unimportant; but at Isaiah 10:5 a discourse begins concerning Assyria, running continuously to the close of chapter twelve. Assyria, an ally of Judah, is to become her enemy, but the chastisement she is to inflict on Judah is in the divine purpose, up to a certain point (Isaiah 10:5-6 ). Assyria’s motive is not the divine glory, however, but her own aggrandizement, which leads her to go... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Isaiah 11:1-16

Prophecy and History Isaiah 11:0 We should connect the opening of the eleventh chapter with the close of the tenth in order to feel the full force of the contrast. There we read: "And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one." Then comes the prophecy that "there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots" ( Isa 11:1 ). The cedar of Lebanon was the symbol of Assyrian power. It was a poor symbol.... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Isaiah 11:2

What a blessed confirmation of the truth of this prophecy, and of the person of Christ, was the descent of the Holy Ghost, at the river Jordan! John the Baptist was before instructed by this very thing how he should know Christ. See Matthew 3:16 ; John 1:29-34 . And, Reader, do remark farther, how delightful the Prophet's expression is, that the Spirit of Jehovah should rest upon him. For the Spirit was not given to our Christ by measure, as to his servants. Do not overlook this, but consult... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Isaiah 11:3-4

In the Hebrew the quick understanding seems more particularly to apply to the sense of smelling; intimating that the perception of Christ should be peculiarly so, and totally different from all others. Let the Reader look into the gospel, and mark the numberless instances in the ministry of Jesus, in his discerning the thoughts of the heart: John 2:24-25 ; Revelation 2:23 . And what a lovely testimony the Prophet adds of this, when saying, that he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes: to... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Isaiah 11:2

Him. In the form of a dove, John i. 32. (Haydock) --- "The whole fountain of the Holy Ghost descending." (Ev. Nazar.) (St. Jerome) --- Christ was filled with his seven gifts, and of his fullness his servants receive. (Worthington) --- Yet all virtues are the gifts of the holy Spirit, and the number seven is not specified in Hebrew, as the same word (Calmet) yirath, is rendered godliness, which (ver. 3.) means, the fear of the Lord. (Haydock) --- God enables us to penetrate the difficulties... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Isaiah 11:3

Filled. Hebrew, "breath or smell." So St. Paul says, (2 Corinthians ii. 15.) we are the good odour of Christ. (Calmet) --- Protestants, "he shall make him of quick understanding (marginal note, smell) in the fear," &c. (Haydock) --- Ears. Which are often deceived. (Menochius) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 11:1-9

1-9 The Messiah is called a Rod, and a Branch. The words signify a small, tender product; a shoot, such as is easily broken off. He comes forth out of the stem of Jesse; when the royal family was cut down and almost levelled with the ground, it would sprout again. The house of David was brought very low at the time of Christ's birth. The Messiah thus gave early notice that his kingdom was not of this world. But the Holy Spirit, in all his gifts and graces, shall rest and abide upon him; he... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Isaiah 11:1-9

The Messiah, The Branch out of the Stem Of Jesse v. 1. And there shall come forth a Rod, a fresh shoot or twig, out of the stem of Jesse, out of the dead stock, the stump, of the former proud tree of the house of David, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots, Zechariah 3:8; Zechariah 4:12; Jeremiah 23:5; Jeremiah 33:15, the root-stock being all that was left of the former grandeur of David's house, the renewal of his family by this singular Scion would indeed be a miracle; v. 2. and the... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Isaiah 11:1-9

III. ISRAEL’S REDEMPTION IN RELATION TO THE MESSIAHIsaiah 11:1 to Isaiah 12:61. FROM THE APPARENTLY DRIED UP ROOT OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID SHALL GO FORTH A SPROUT THAT SHALL FOUND A KINGDOM OF MOST GLORIOUS PEACEIsaiah 11:1-91 And there shall come forth a rod out of the 1stem of Jesse,And a 2Branch 3shall grow out of his roots:2 And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him,The spirit of wisdom and understanding,The spirit of counsel and might,The spirit of knowledge and of the fear... read more