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Isaiah 9:2
‘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.
‘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.
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...
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...
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...
THAT WALKED IN DARKNESS. the walkers in darkness. HAVE MEN. saw. Quoted in Matthew 4:14....
_have seen_ the perfects throughout are those of prophetic certainty; the writer is transported into the future. _the shadow of death_ Heb. _çal-mâveth_, usually held by scholars to be a corruption o...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
(CONTINUED) 8. Jacob.. Israel] Both names here stand for the northern kingdom, as is made clear by what follows in the next v....
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...
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...
_[Isaiah 9:1]_ הָ עָם֙ הַ הֹלְכִ֣ים בַּ...
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...
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...
_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)_...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
THE PROMISE OF THE MESSIAH IN THE MIDST OF SPIRITUAL DARKNESS. The Birth of the God-Man Promised....
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...
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...
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...
Isaiah 9:2 people H5971 walked H1980 (H8802) darkness H2822 seen H7200 (H8804) great H1419 light H216 dwelt...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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 John 1:5; 1 Peter 2:9; Amos 5:8; Ephesians 5:13; Ephesians 5:14;...
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...