Isaiah 9:8-10 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 9:8-21

Here are terrible threatenings, which are directed primarily against Israel, the kingdom of the ten tribes, Ephraim and Samaria, the ruin of which is here foretold, with all the woeful confusions that were the prefaces to that ruin, all which came to pass within a few years after; but they look further, to all the enemies of the throne and kingdom of Christ the Son of David, and read the doom of all the nations that forget God, and will not have Christ to reign over them. Observe, I. The... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 9:8

The Lord sent a word unto Jacob ,.... The prophet, having comforted Judah with the promise of the Messiah, returns to denounce the judgments of God upon the ten tribes, under the names of Jacob and Israel, which signify the same; for the "word" here is not the word of promise, the comfortable word concerning the Messiah before mentioned; but a word of threatening, ruin, and destruction, to the kingdom of Israel, after enlarged upon, which the Lord sent unto them by his prophets before hand,... read more

John Gill

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

John Gill

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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 9:8

Lord "Jehovah" - For אדני Adonai , thirty MSS. of Kennicott's, and many of De Rossi's, and three editions, read יהוה Yehovah . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 9:9

Pride and stoutness of heart "Carry themselves haughtily" - וידעו veyadeu , "and they shall know;" so ours and the Versions in general. But what is it that they shall know? The verb stands destitute of its object; and the sense is imperfect. The Chaldee is the only one, as far as I can find, that expresses it otherwise. He renders the verb in this place by ואתרברבו veithrabrabu , "they exalt themselves, or carry themselves haughtily; the same word by which he renders גבהו gabehu ... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 9:10

The bricks - "The eastern bricks," says Sir John Chardin, (see Harmer's Observ. I., p. 176), "are only clay well moistened with water, and mixed with straw, and dried in the sun." So that their walls are commonly no better than our mud walls; see Maundrell, p. 124. That straw was a necessary part in the composition of this sort of bricks, to make the parts of the clay adhere together, appears from Exodus 5. These bricks are properly opposed to hewn stone, so greatly superior in beauty and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 9:8

Jacob … Israel. These words do not show that the prophecy is directed against the kingdom of Israel only. "Jacob" designates Judah rather than Israel in Isaiah 2:3 , Isaiah 2:5 , Isaiah 2:6 ; and the expression, "both the houses of Israel," in Isaiah 8:14 , shows that the term "Israel" embraces both kingdoms. Tim distinctive names by which Isaiah ordinarily designates the northern kingdom are "Ephraim" and "Samaria." read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 9:8-12

The evil spirit of defiance. The spirit which is here rebuked is that of a guilty defiance of God. Jehovah had visited Israel with the signs of his displeasure—had humbled and impoverished her. What attitude should she now assume? That of humility and amendment? Nothing was further from her mind. She would contend in her own strength against her fate, against the Lord who had abased her; she would show to him the futility of his correction. The bricks might be fallen down; it was of no... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 9:8-21

THE PROPHET RETURNS TO THREATS AND WARNINGS , ADDRESSED CHIEFLY TO THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL . The remainder of this chapter, together with the first four verses of the next, seems to have formed originally a distinct and separate prophecy. The passage is a poem in four stanzas, with the same refrain at the end of each: "For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still." A somewhat early date has been assigned to the prophecy, as; for... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 9:8-21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 9:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 9:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 9:10

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 9:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 9:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 9:10

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 9:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 9:8-12

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 9:8-21

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