Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 9:21
Manasseh — Though more near and dear to one another than any other tribe, being both sons of Joseph.
Manasseh — Though more near and dear to one another than any other tribe, being both sons of Joseph.
MANASSEH, EPHRAIM - This verse is a continuation of the statement in regard to the extent and fearfulness of the faction. Those who were hitherto most tenderly and intimately allied to each other, wou...
CHAPTER 9 The Message of Hope Concerning Israel's Future and the Impending Judgments 1. _The Messiah, His Name, His rule, His kingdom (Isaiah 9:1)_ 2. _Judgment upon Israel (Isaiah 9:8)_ 3. The impen...
ISAIAH 9:8 TO ISAIAH 10:4. YAHWEH SMITES EPHRAIM WITH STROKE AFTER STROKE. It is generally agreed that Isaiah 5:26 formed the closing strophe of this poem (p. 440). The date is probably before the coa...
Third strophe. As in ch. Isaiah 3:1-7, the removal of the pillars of the state is followed by wild confusion and civil war. The state of things alluded to can be partly realised from passages in the b...
Isaiah 9:8 to Isaiah 10:4 (+ Isaiah 5:25-30) Jehovah's hand stretched out in wrath over His people. An oracle against North Israel The key-note of the prophecy is given in the recurrent refrain...
_Manasseh, Ephraim … Manasseh_ Ancient tribal jealousies would naturally be revived in a period of anarchy and civil war. Something of this kind seems to be implied in the account of the accession of...
FOR WICKEDNESS, &C.— _For wickedness burneth as a fire,_ (_and it shall devour the briers and thorns_) _and it burns up the thickets of the forest, and they mount up curled, like,_ &c. We have here in...
ISRAEL'S PERVERSITY TEXT: Isaiah 9:18-21 18 For wickedness burneth as the fire; it devoureth the briers and thorns; yea it kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column o...
Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. MANASSEH, EPHRAIM; AND EPHRAIM,...
(CONTINUED) 8. Jacob.. Israel] Both names here stand for the northern kingdom, as is made clear by what follows in the next v....
DIVINE JUDGMENTS ON THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL This section relates throughout to the kingdom of Israel. It belongs to the same period as the Chapter s immediately preceding, and treats of the ruin which I...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 9 THE FUTURE KING V1 But soon, those who have suffered so gr...
Manasseh and Ephraim were the names of two sons of Joseph. Their later families formed *tribes and were called by the same names. LORD ~ God’s name in the Bible. In the original language, God’s names...
_[Isaiah 9:20]_ מְנַשֶּׁ֣ה אֶת ־אֶפְרַ֗יִם וְ אֶפְרַ֨יִם֙...
CHAPTER VII THE MESSIAH WE have now reached that point of Isaiah's prophesying at which the Messiah becomes the most conspicuous figure on his horizon. Let us take advantage of it to gather into one...
CHAPTER III THE VINEYARD OF THE LORD, OR TRUE PATRIOTISM THE CONSCIENCE OF OUR COUNTRY'S SINS 735 B.C. Isaiah 5:1; Isaiah 9:8 - Isaiah 10:4 THE prophecy contained in these Chapter s belongs, as we...
SOCIAL INJUSTICE CONDEMNED Isaiah 9:18-21; Isaiah 10:1-4 The terrible indictment of the preceding paragraphs is continued here. Notice the awful monotony of the refrain, Isaiah 9:12; Isaiah 9:17; Is...
Here we have the message of hope (verses Isa 9:1-7) in the glorious picture of the Coming Deliverer, with the equally glorious record of the results of His Coming. It is one of the greatest Messianic...
CHAPTER IX....
REFLECTIONS MY soul! behold in Israel's history, the real history of all men by nature; and the one universal cause of the Lord's controversy with the sons of men. All have sinned, and come short of G...
If the Reader will compare this chapter in the several parts of it, with Leviticus 26:1, he will find a solemn explanation given of what is here said, and mark the progression of divine visitations in...
21._Manasseh, Ephraim. _These tribes were closely related to each other; for besides their being descended from the same ancestor, Abraham, a close relationship arose out of their being descended from...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9:1-7. But this requires further development; and it is given in a remarkable manner in the next prophecy, comprised in Chapter s 7, 8, 9 to the end...
MANASSEH, EPHRAIM; AND EPHRAIM, MANASSEH,.... That is, "Manasseh" shall eat or devour "Ephraim"; and "Ephraim" shall eat or devour "Manasseh"; as the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions render it;...
Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: [and] they together [shall be] against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand [is] stretched out still. Ver. 21. _Manasseh, Ephraim;...
_He shall snatch on the right hand_ They shall plunder and devour one another, without ever being satisfied, or ceasing. _They shall eat every man the flesh_, &c. They shall destroy one another by the...
Manasseh, Ephraim; and Epraim, Manasseh, in a form of civil war in which every man's hand would be turned against his neighbor; AND THEY TOGETHER SHALL BE AGAINST JUDAH, for the hatred which obtained...
Jehovah's Hand Stretched our in Judgment...
8-21 Those are ripening apace for ruin, whose hearts are unhumbled under humbling providences. For that which God designs, in smiting us, is, to turn us to himself; and if this point be not gained by...
MANASSEH, EPHRAIM; though more near and dear to one another than any other tribe, being both sons of Joseph. THEY TOGETHER SHALL BE AGAINST JUDAH; which might be accomplished either before Shalmaneser...
Isaiah 9:21 Manasseh H4519 Ephraim H669 Ephraim H669 Manasseh H4519 Together H3162 Judah H3063 anger H639 away H7725 ...
THE THIRD CHASTISEMENT. THE DISINTEGRATION OF THEIR SOCIETY (ISAIAH 9:18). Analysis. a For wickedness burns like a fire, it devours the thorns and the thistles, yes, it kindles in the thickets of th...
CONTENTS: A divine child, the only hope of Israel. Vision of the outstretched hand. The unavailing chastisement. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Isaiah, Rezin. CONCLUSION: In the worst of times, God's peopl...
Isaiah 9:1. _The dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation._ Dr. Lightfoot infers from this, that there was much greater affliction in the first days of her vexation. All the Versions differ ve...
_For wickedness burneth as the fire_ WICKEDNESS AS FIRE Wickedness, _i._., the constant willing of evil, is a fire which man kindles in himself. And when the grace of God, which stifles and checks th...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 9:1 THE TROUBLES OF ISRAEL SHALL END THROUGH THE BIRTH OF A MARVELOUS CHILD. The section of the prophecy commencing with...
Now as we get into chapter 9, he said, Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afte...
1 Samuel 14:20; 2 Chronicles 28:6; 2 Kings 15:30; Galatians 5:15;...