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Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 53:1-12

By Chuck SmithWhen men made chapter and verse divisions, they did make mistakes. The Word of God is divinely inspired; it's inerrant. But men, for the sake of helping us to find scriptures and to memorize passages, divided the Bible into chapter and verses. And it's a very convenient way to reference. However, many times they made the divisions in the wrong place, and in our reading we are prone to read to an end of a chapter and then quit until the next reading. And sometimes the thought... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 53:1-12

Isaiah 53:1 . Who hath believed our report; and to whom is (the Messiah) the mighty arm of the Lord revealed? This complaint of the servants is but the plaintive echo of their Master’s voice. He had said in the Spirit, “I have laboured in vain, and spent my strength for nought; yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work is with my God.” But he spake not in despair; his righteousness sustained him. “Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 53:1-12

Isaiah 53:1-12Who hath believed our report?--The Messiah referred to in Isaiah 53:1-12By some it has been supposed, in ancient times and in modern, that the prophet was referring to the sufferings of the nation of Israel--either of Israel as a whole or of the righteous section of the nation--and to the benefits that would accrue from those sufferings to the surrounding peoples, some of whom were contemptuous of Israel, all of whom may be described as ignorant of God. But to defend that opinion... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 53:12

Isaiah 53:12Therefore will I divide Him a portion with the greatChrist’s conflict and conquestI.CHRIST’S CONFLICT. II. CHRIST’S CONQUEST. The conflict is last in the order of the words, but first in order of nature and time. (T. Manton, D.D.)The greatness of the Sin-bearerIt is the voice of God Himself; and it is befitting that, as He introduced His Servant in the opening verses of this marvellous portraiture, so, in these closing words, He should pronounce His verdict on His career. Two things... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 53:12

Isa 53:12 Therefore will I divide him [a portion] with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. Ver. 12. Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great. ] Or, I will give many to him. Psa 2:8 Some sense it thus: I will give him to conquer, plunder, and spoil the evil spirits; as Col 2:15 and this he... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Isaiah 53:12

will I: Isaiah 49:24, Isaiah 49:25, Isaiah 52:15, Genesis 3:15, Psalms 2:8, Daniel 2:45, Matthew 12:28, Matthew 12:29, Acts 26:18, Philippians 2:8-1 Kings :, Colossians 1:13, Colossians 1:14, Colossians 2:15, Hebrews 2:14, Hebrews 2:15 poured: Psalms 22:14, Philippians 2:17, *marg. Hebrews 12:2 and he was: Mark 15:28, Luke 22:37, Luke 23:25, Luke 23:32, Luke 23:33 he bare: Isaiah 53:11, 1 Timothy 2:5, 1 Timothy 2:6, Titus 2:14, Hebrews 9:26, Hebrews 9:28 made: Luke 23:34, Romans 8:34,... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 53:12

Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.I — God the father.A portion — Which is very commodiously supplied out of the next clause.With the strong — God will give him happy success in his glorious undertaking: he shall conquer all his enemies, and set up his universal and... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 53:1-12

Sec. 3. MESSIAH AND THE GOSPEL, Isaiah 52:11 to Isaiah 55:13. Thus far in this chapter is treated the case of an exalted Church passing, step by step, through suffering and deliverances into the purity of the typical holy Zion; from this point the view is turned again to the “Servant” of Jehovah, through whom the prophet has seen the Church to be redeemed. The portrait of a suffering servant is here filled out in detail, as a side-piece (Delitzsch) to the liberation and deliverance of... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 53:12

12. Therefore That is, for all this mediatorial suffering and work; for this whole victorious combat with the powers of sin. Will I divide him Hebrew, to him. With the great Or, among the great. The figure is, of spoils from great conquests, and its meaning as applied to a suffering Messiah is, that his victories shall be very great. The language is mixed with ellipses, and is therefore obscure. To arrange it into orderly thought is difficult. A fair theory of the course of thought in... read more

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