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Darby's translation notes (1890)

Isaiah 7:9

7:9 established. (l-25) In the Hebrew for 'believe' and 'be established,' there is an assonance greater than in confide and abide .

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See also Isaiah 7:9 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 7:9. Isaiah 7:8....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND THE HEAD OF EPHRAIM - The capital city of Ephraim, or of Israel. IS SAMARIA - This was long the capital of the kingdom of Israel. For a description of this city, see the notes at Isaiah 28:1. The...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 7 The Prophet before King Ahaz 1. _The king in trouble (Isaiah 7:1)_ 2. _Isaiah sent and his message (Isaiah 7:3)_ 3. _A sign offered and refused (Isaiah 7:10)_ 4. The sign: The virgin birth...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH GIVES AHAZ THE ENCOURAGING SIGN OF IMMANUEL WHEN HE IS DISMAYED BY THE ALLIANCE OF SYRIA AND EPHRAIM AGAINST HIM. For the historical circumstances see pp. 59, 70f. Apart from Isaiah 7:1, which...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    IF YE WILL NOT BELIEVE, SURELY YE SHALL NOT BE ESTABLISHED. Note the Figure of speech _Paronomasia_ for emphasis and to attract attention to the importance of the sentence. Hebrew. _'im l'o tha'dminu,...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A confirmation of Isaiah 7:7; but the thought is difficult to grasp. The general meaning seems to be that the league is an attempt to obliterate the political distinctions which Jehovah has establishe...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    IF YE WILL NOT BELIEVE (_ta"ǎmînû_) YE SHALL NOT BE ESTABLISHED (_tç"âmçnû_, 2 Samuel 7:16). One of Isaiah's paronomasias; "_gläubet_ihr nicht, so _bleibet_ihr nicht" (Luther); "if ye will not have _...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD, &C.— We have in these verses the grounds of the consolation given to Ahaz, namely, the overthrow of this expedition; with an admonitory caution to the Jews. Vitringa renders t...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    II. CRISIS AND THE CHRIST (IMMANUEL) Chapter S 7 - 12 CHAPTER SEVEN A. PROMISE OF IMMANUEL 1. THE CRISIS Isaiah 7:1-9 TEXT: Isaiah 7:1-9 1 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz, the son of Joth...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established. IF YE WILL NOT BELIEVE, SURELY YE SHALL NOT BE ESTABLISHED...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-16. Isaiah assures Ahaz by a sign that Judah will be delivered from Syria and Israel....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The need of faith is emphasised; without it there is no security....

  • 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 7 From now on in the Book of Isaiah, the names Israel and Eph...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    IF YE WILL NOT BELIEVE... — The prophet reads the thoughts that were working in the king’s mind. He had no faith in these predictions terminating at a date which he was not likely to live to witness....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ רֹ֤אשׁ אֶפְרַ֨יִם֙ שֹׁמְרֹ֔ון וְ רֹ֥אשׁ שׁ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER V THE WORLD IN ISAIAH'S DAY AND ISRAEL'S GOD 735-730 B.C. UP to this point we have been acquainted with Isaiah as a prophet of general principles, preaching to his countrymen the elements of...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE SIGN OF IMMANUEL Isaiah 7:1-17 A new cycle of prophecy begins here, covering the reign of Ahaz. The complete history which illustrates these Chapter s is given in 2 Chronicles 28:5. The invasion...

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

    Immediately following this new call of the prophet, we have the account of his encounter with Ahaz. Rezin of Syria and Pekah of Israel had entered into a confederacy against Judah, and a great fear po...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Continue. Septuagint, "and will not understand, even the Lord," &c. (Haydock) --- Hebrew, "and since you do not believe," (Calmet) or "because you are not confirmed" by a miracle. (Grotius)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I beg the Reader to remark with me, the Lord's tender mercy to his people. Surely in this history, as in a thousand others, the Apostle's words are fulfilled: where sin abounded, grace did much more a...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    9._Meanwhile _(107) _the head of Ephraim is Samaria. _As it is a repetition by which he confirms what he formerly said, that God had set bounds to the kingdom of Israel for an appointed time, I have r...

  • 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

    AND THE HEAD OF EPHRAIM [IS] SAMARIA,..... Samaria was the metropolis or chief city of Ephraim, or the ten tribes of Israel: AND THE HEAD OF SAMARIA [IS] REMALIAH'S SON; Pekah, son of Remaliah, was k...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the head of Ephraim [is] Samaria, and the head of Samaria [is] Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established. Ver 9. And the head of Samariah, Remaliah's son.] In con...

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

    _It shall not stand_ Namely, their evil counsel. _For the head of Syria is Damascus_ As if he had said, As Damascus is the head city of Syria, and Rezin is the head, or king, of Damascus, so shall the...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the head of Ephraim, its capital and stronghold, IS SAMARIA, AND THE HEAD OF SAMARIA IS REMALIAH'S SON. The meaning of this somewhat enigmatic saying is evidently this, that both Syria and the kin...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    GOD PROMISES HELP AGAINST SYRIA AND EPHRAIM...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    IF YE WILL NOT BELIEVE, SURELY YE SHALL NOT BE ESTABLISHED: Or, do ye not believe? it is because ye are not stable...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-9 Ungodly men are often punished by others as bad as themselves. Being in great distress and confusion, the Jews gave up all for lost. They had made God their enemy, and knew not how to make him th...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    IS SAMARIA; or rather, _shall be Samaria_; and the sense is the same as in the foregoing verse, Samaria shall continue to be the chief city of the kingdom of Israel, and Pekah shall not conquer Jerusa...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 7:9 head H7218 Ephraim H669 Samaria H8111 head H7218 Samaria H8111 Remaliahs H7425 son H1121 believe H539 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    GOD APPEALS TO AHAZ ASKING HIM TO TRUST HIM (ISAIAH 7:1). Syria and Israel, in seeking to join an alliance against Assyria, called on Judah to join them, and when Ahaz was reluctant, determined to bri...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 7:1. And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jer...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Evil confederacy of Rezin and Jekah. The sign of the Virgin's Son. Prediction of impending invasion of Judah. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Ahaz, Rezin, Pekah, Isaiah, Shear-jashub. CONCLUSION:...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 7:1. _In the days of Ahaz,_ the second or the third year of his reign. Chapter s 5. and 6. are therefore out of place. Isaiah 7:6. _Let us go up against Judah and set a king in the midst of it,...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established_ FAITH IN THE DIVINE WORD AND PROMISES THE ALONE GROUND OF THE BELIEVER’S ESTABLISHMENT AND HAPPINESS There are only two sources from whic...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Rezin. .. and Pekah. .. went up toward Jerusalem to war against it_ THE CONFEDERACY AGAINST JERUSALEM The reason of this war is not stated: but from the desire of those kings to dethrone Ahaz, and...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 7:7 Human threats are to be dismissed and divine promises firmly trusted, for THE LORD GOD rules all events. WITHIN SIXTY-FIVE YEARS. The northern kingdom fell to Assyr

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    FAITH, THE CONDITION OF FIRMNESS Isaiah 7:9. _If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established_. “Established” is what every man wishes to be—fixed in fact and in feeling; established like...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    ISAIAH’S INTERVIEW WITH AHAZ Isaiah 7:3. _Then said the Lord unto Isaiah, &c._ In this interview of Isaiah with Ahaz we have an instance— I. OF GOD’S EFFORTS TO TURN MEN FROM RUINOUS COURSES. God is...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    FEARS AND COMFORTS Isaiah 7:1. _And it came to pass, in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, &c._ The historical statements [778] in these verses afford illustrations of spiritual truths. [778] For...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION IV. PROPHECIES CONNECTED WITH THE SYRO-ISRAELITE WAR (Isaiah 7-10:4). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 7:1 THE PROPHECY GIVEN TO AHAZ

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now Uzziah is dead and his grandson Ahaz is reigning. It came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, the king of Judah, that Rezin was the king of Syria, and Pekah was the...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 John 5:10; 1 Kings 16:24; 2 Chronicles 20:20; 2 Kings 15:27;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE BIRTH OF CHRIST IN ISAIAH Isaiah 7:5; _Isaiah 9:6_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Book of Revelation opens thus: "The Revelation of Jesus Christ." "We see no reason why the whole Bible is not a "revelat...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Samaria — Samaria shall continue to be the chief city if the kingdom of Israel, and Pekah shall not conquer Jerusalem. If — If you do not believe this, but seek to the Assyrians for succour, ye shall...

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