Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Isaiah 9:1-21
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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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8. Jacob.. Israel] Both names here stand for the northern kingdom, as is made clear by what follows in the next v.
CHAPTER IX _This chapter contains an illustrious prophecy of the Messiah._ _He is represented under the glorious figure of the sun, or_ _light, rising on a benighted world, and diffusing joy and_...
NEVERTHELESS - Notwithstanding what is said in the previous chapter of the calamities that are coming upon Israel. Hengstenberg renders this whole verse: ‘For darkness shall not be upon the land upon...
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 8:19 TO ISAIAH 9:1. SOME FRAGMENTARY UTTERANCES. These fragments are of uncertain date and authorship, corrupt in text and obscure in sense. The first, Isaiah 8:19 f., is a warning against necr...
NEVERTHELESS. For, This member (Isaiah 9:1) relates to Messiah, the Son, referring back to Isaiah 8:9; Isaiah 8:10. and carries Isaiah 7:14 on to its future fulfi
Isaiah 9:1. _Nevertheless … vexation_ Lit. FOR ( THERE IS) NO GLOOM TO HER THAT ( IS) IN STRAITNESS. The sentence is an enigma. Duhm translates it as a question and regards it as the gloss of a reader...
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...
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...
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 afterward did more grievously afflict her b...
9:1 nations. (i-47) _ Goim_ . see ch. 1.4....
Zebulun and Naphtali were two of the 12 *tribes of Israel. The territory of Zebulun was west of the Sea of Galilee (see Joshua 19:10-16). The territory of Naphtali was north of Zebulun (see Joshua 19:...
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...
IX. (1) NEVERTHELESS THE DIMNESS... — It is obvious, even in the English version, that the Chapter s are wrongly divided, and that what follows forms part of the same prophetic utterance as Isaiah 8....
_[Isaiah 8:23]_ כִּ֣י לֹ֣א מוּעָף֮ לַ אֲשֶׁ֣ר...
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...
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...
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...
Nevertheless (a) the dimness [shall] not [be] such as [was] in her distress, (b) when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously...
_Loaded. Theglathphalassar took away whole tribes, (2 Paralipomenon v. 26.) the year after this. Yet these people were the first enlightened with the rays of the gospel, (Matthew iv. 13.) though so mu...
CONTENTS Here is another blessed prophecy, full of the Lord Jesus, and of gospel mercies, folded up in him. The prophet speaks of the joy of God's people, when, in the midst of darkness, the light of...
1._Yet the darkness shall not be. _He begins to comfort the wretched by the hope of alleviation, that they may not be swallowed up by the huge mass of distresses. Many take these words in quite an opp...
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...
NEVERTHELESS, THE DIMNESS [SHALL] NOT [BE] SUCH AS [WAS] IN HER VEXATION,.... The words may be rendered, "for there shall be no weariness to him that straitens" or "afflicts" them f; so Jarchi, who in...
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 afterward did more grievously afflict...
_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 partic...
THE PROMISE OF THE MESSIAH IN THE MIDST OF SPIRITUAL DARKNESS. The Birth of the God-Man Promised....
Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, literally, "Not is darkness to him to whom is affliction," that is, the land now oppressed with darkness and afflictions will be deli...
OF THE NATIONS: Or, populous...
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...
ISAIAH CHAPTER 9 Joy in the midst of affliction, ISAIAH 9:1. The birth, person, office, and kingdom of Christ, ISAIAH 9:6,7. Judgments for their pride, ISAIAH 9:8; for their impenitency and hypocrisy,...
Isaiah 9:1 gloom H4155 distressed H4164 when H6256 first H7223 esteemed H7043 (H8689) land H776 Zebulun H2074 land...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 9:1 HER WHO WAS IN ANGUISH refers to Israel as the people of God under his discipline. IN THE FORMER TIME. Isaiah sees the tragic present as if it were already past. Brought into...
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 Chronicles 5:26; 1 Kings 15:19; 1 Kings 15:20; 2 Chronicles 16:4;...
Nevertheless — The calamity of this land and its inhabitants shall be great, yet not such as that which was brought upon it by the king of Assyria, who at first indeed dealt more gently with them, but...