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Isaiah 9:2-3

The sudden change of style is remarkable; all at once the prophecy breaks into a strain of rapturous and animated poetry, which is sustained to the close. In the Hebr. ch. 9 begins here.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE PEOPLE THAT WALKED IN DARKNESS - The inhabitants of the region of Galilee. They were represented as walking in darkness, because they were far from the capital, and from the temple; they had few r...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISRAEL'S DELIVERER. This famous passage on the Messianic King is now by several regarded as late. The question is too large to be discussed, but it seems more difficult to explain its origin in the po...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THAT WALKED IN DARKNESS. the walkers in darkness. HAVE MEN. saw. Quoted in Matthew 4:14....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 871 BLESSINGS IMPARTED BY THE GOSPEL Isaiah 9:2. The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shi...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    NEVERTHELESS THE DIMNESS, &C.— The prophet having said, in the 20th verse of the preceding chapter, that they who directed not themselves according to the canon of the divine law should have _no light...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CHAPTER NINE C. PEACE BY IMMANUEL 1. HIS PERSONALITY TEXT: Isaiah 9:1-7 1 But there shall be no gloom to her that was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. THE PEOPLE THAT WALKED IN DARKNESS HAVE SEEN A GREA...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1. RV 'But there shall be no gloom to her that was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time hath he made it glorious...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    (CONTINUED) 8. Jacob.. Israel] Both names here stand for the northern kingdom, as is made clear by what follows in the next v....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    WALKED IN DARKNESS] as described in Isaiah 8:21; Isaiah 8:22. HAVE SEEN] The light of the new age to which the prophet looked forward was of course in the future, but to his vision it is so assured th...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ‘In deep darkness’ is a powerful description. It describes the feelings of people who had long been prisoners in a foreign land. They could see no possible hope ever again....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE PEOPLE THAT WALKED IN DARKNESS... — The words throw us back upon Isaiah 8:21. The prophet sees in his vision a light shining on the forlorn and weary wanderers. They had been wandering in the “val...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Isaiah 9:1]_ הָ עָם֙ הַ הֹלְכִ֣ים בַּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER VI KING AND MESSIAH; PEOPLE AND CHURCH 735-732 B.C. Isaiah 7:8, 9:Isaiah 7:1 THIS section of the book of Isaiah (Chapter s 7-9:7) consists of a number of separate prophecies uttered during...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE PRINCE OF PEACE Isaiah 8:19-22; Isaiah 9:1-7 When men cease to trust in God and rely on the help of man, they often turn to necromancy and spirit-rapping. The medium takes the place of the Mediat...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    The people that (d) walked in darkness have seen a great (e) light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the (f) light shined. (d) Which were in captivity in Babylon and...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Risen. the kingdom of Juda hoped for redress, when they saw the people of Israel humbled, (Haydock) or rather after the defeat of Sennacherib. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    This blessed account was fulfilled, when the Lord Jesus, preceded by his herald, John the Baptist, manifested himself to Israel. The gospel is full of it. Matthew 4:12....

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    2._The people walking in darkness hath seen a great light. _He speaks of future events in the past tense, and thus brings them before the immediate view of the people, that in the destruction of the c...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THE PEOPLE THAT WALKED IN DARKNESS,.... Meaning not the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem, in the times of Hezekiah, when Sennacherib besieged them, as Jarchi and Kimchi interpret it; and much less t...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. Ver. 2. _The people that walked in darkness._] _Libera...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE PROMISE OF THE MESSIAH IN THE MIDST OF SPIRITUAL DARKNESS. The Birth of the God-Man Promised....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The people that walked in darkness, namely, these same inhabitants of Galilee of the Gentiles, those who had been oppressed with spiritual darkness, HAVE SEEN A GREAT LIGHT, the prophet, speaking as t...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-7 The Syrians and Assyrians first ravaged the countries here mentioned, and that region was first favoured by the preaching of Christ. Those that want the gospel, walk in darkness, and in the utmos...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE PEOPLE; the people of God, Israel and Judah, and especially those of them mentioned in the foregoing verse. WALKED; in MATTHEW 4:16, it is _sat_. It notes not their gesture, but their state or con...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 9:2 people H5971 walked H1980 (H8802) darkness H2822 seen H7200 (H8804) great H1419 light H216 dwelt...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE RISE OF THE GREAT KING IMMANUEL (ISAIAH 9:2). The rise of Immanuel is described in terms of great light and rejoicing, and is connected with the defeat of the enemies of God's people. As a result...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 9:2 I. One almost invariable sight revealed to us in the shadow of death is the imperishableness of the past. There is good in this revision of the past. (1) It is good to know that the past as...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    The last verses of the eighth chapter picture a horrible state of wretchedness and despair: «And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation_ THE PROPHECY EXPLAINED Let me venture to give what I conceive to be the true rendering of the prophecy--a rendering which at least...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light_ THE TRUE LIGHT The prophet’s vision has been fulfilled. The true light now shineth; Jesus Christ as the Word made flesh is the true Ligh...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 9:2 THE PEOPLE WHO WALKED IN DARKNESS. People like those who refused the appeal of Isaiah 2:5 (see also...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 9:1 THE TROUBLES OF ISRAEL SHALL END THROUGH THE BIRTH OF A MARVELOUS CHILD. The section of the prophecy commencing with...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 John 1:5; 1 Peter 2:9; Amos 5:8; Ephesians 5:13; Ephesians 5:14;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The people — Israel and Judah. Darkness — The expression is general and so may well comprehend both calamity and ignorance, idolatry and profaneness, in which those parts were eminently involved. Have...

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