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THE ANCIENT - The elder; the old man.
AND HONORABLE - Hebrew, ‘The man of elevated countenance.’ The man
of rank and office.
THE PROPHET THAT TEACHETH LIES - The false prophet. Of those there
were m...
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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...
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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...
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HEAD. TAIL. Reference to Pentateuch. Only here and Deuteronomy 28:13;
Deuteronomy 28:44....
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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...
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Second strophe. It describes a "day" of terror (which may be either a
battle or a revolution) in which the leaders of the people suddenly
perished. What incident is referred to cannot be determined; r...
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FOR THE PEOPLE TURNETH NOT, &C.— We have here the second crime of
this refractory people, who, _impenitent_ and _stupid,_ regarded not
the chastisement of the Lord, nor turned to him at his reproof.
T...
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ISRAEL'S PRESUMPTION
TEXT: Isaiah 9:8-17
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The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
9
And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of
Samaria, that say...
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The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that
teacheth lies, he is the tail.
THE ANCIENT - the older.
HONOURABLE - the man of rank. THE PROPHET THAT TEACHETH LIES, HE (IS)
THE...
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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...
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Explanatory of the metaphorical language in Isaiah 9:14 : cp. Isaiah
9:20; Isaiah 9:21....
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(CONTINUED)
8. Jacob.. Israel] Both names here stand for the northern kingdom, as
is made clear by what follows in the next v....
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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...
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THE ANCIENT AND HONOURABLE... — Comp. Isaiah 3:2, for the meaning of
the words. These, the prophet seems to say, were the true leaders of
the people. The ideal work of the prophet was, indeed, that of...
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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...
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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...
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FALSE LEADERSHIP BRINGS RUIN
Isaiah 9:8-17
The grievous sins of the Chosen People are again enumerated. They
defied God, Isaiah 8:9-10. They refused to repent; they were blind and
deaf and profane, I...
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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...
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Here is the sad cause of the Prophet's lamentation, and a miserable
close he makes indeed of the sorrowful subject, at every termination:
for the thing explains itself. The Lord corrects in mercy; but...
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15._The ancient and honorable, he is the head. _What he had spoken
allegorically about _the head _and _the tail _he explains more plainly
and without a figure. He says that the _heads _are the princes...
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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...
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THE ANCIENT AND HONOURABLE, HE [IS] THE HEAD,.... The elder in office,
not in age; and who, on account of his office, dignity, and riches, is
honoured by men, is of a venerable countenance himself, an...
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The ancient and honourable, he [is] the head; and the prophet that
teacheth lies, he [is] the tail.
Ver. 15. _The ancient and honourable is the head._] Thus the Scripture
frequently expoundeth itself...
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_For the people turneth not_, &c. We have here the second crime of
this refractory people, who, impenitent and stupid, regarded not the
chastisement of the Lord, nor turned to him at his reproof. Ther...
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The ancient and honorable, the princes and nobles of the people, HE IS
THE HEAD; AND THE PROPHET THAT TEACHETH LIES, HE IS THE TAIL. The
false prophets considered themselves leaders among the people,...
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Jehovah's Hand Stretched our in Judgment...
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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...
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HE IS, i.e. signifies, as that word is commonly used in the Hebrew
tongue, as GENESIS 41:26,27, and every where. THE PROPHET THAT
TEACHETH LIES; whose destruction he mentions, not as if it were a
puni...
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Isaiah 9:15 elder H2205 honorable H6440 H5375 (H8803) he H1931 head
H7218 prophet H5030 teaches H3384 ...
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THE SECOND CHASTISEMENT. THE REMOVAL OF THE LEADERSHIP (ISAIAH 9:13).
Analysis.
a Yet the people have not turned to Him who smote them, nor have they
sought Yahweh of hosts (Isaiah 9:13).
b Therefor...
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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...
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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...
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EXPOSITION
ISAIAH 9:1
THE TROUBLES OF ISRAEL SHALL END THROUGH THE BIRTH OF A MARVELOUS
CHILD. The section of the prophecy commencing with...
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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...
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1 John 4:1; 1 Kings 13:18; 1 Kings 22:22; 1 Samuel 9:6;...
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The prophet — Whose destruction he mentions, not as if it were a
punishment to them to be deprived of such persons, but partly to shew
the extent of the calamity, that it should reach all sorts of per...