Isaiah 9:1-7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 9:7

Of the increase ... - The word rendered “government” here, משׂרה mis'râh, means properly his government as a prince - his principality, and is a continuation of the idea in the previous verse, ‘the Prince of Peace.’ It means that his reign as a prince of peace - in extending and promoting peace, shall be unlimited.And peace - This does not signify in the original, as our translation would seem to do, that there should be no end to the increase of his peace, but that there should be no limit to... 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

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 9:6

Isaiah 9:6. For, &c. Having spoken of the glorious light, and joy, and victory of God’s people, the prophet now proceeds to show the foundation and cause thereof. And, “though he is everywhere most excellent, he is peculiarly so in this passage, which contains an emphatical description of the person and kingdom of the Son of God; the kingdom of peace; the eternal and universal kingdom, in which the church should have the highest cause for joy; which should bring with it an abolition of... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 9:7

Isaiah 9:7. Of the increase of his government, &c. His peaceable and happy government shall be enlarged without end: either without end of duration, for ever, as is expressed in a following clause of this verse, or without limitation: his peaceable and happy government shall be extended to all the ends of the earth. Upon the throne of David The throne which was promised to David, and to his seed for ever; from henceforth, &c. From the beginning of it unto all eternity. The... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 9:1-7

Messiah, Prince of Peace (9:1-7)The southern kingdom under Ahaz was about to enter a time of increasing distress and darkness (see 8:21-22). The northern kingdom was about to be attacked by Assyria, and the tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali in the far north Galilean region were about to be taken into captivity (2 Kings 15:29). Yet out of this darkness and from this conquered northern area will come the great deliverer, the Messiah, to lead his people to victory and to introduce an era of light,... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 9:1

Nevertheless = For, This member (Isaiah 9:1-7 ) relates to Messiah, the Son, referring back to Isaiah 8:9 , Isaiah 8:10 ; and carries Isaiah 7:14 on to its future fulfilment, See App-102 . dimness. vexation. Almost the same two words as dimness. anguish (Isaiah 8:22 ). at the first. When Ben-hadad, in the reign of Baasha, "smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali" (1 Kings 15:20 ) the land, &c. Quoted in Luke 1:79 . afterward.... read more

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