Isaiah 9:11

Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together; THEREFORE THE LORD SHALL SET UP THE ADVERSARIES OF REZIN AGAINST HIM - the Assyrians, who shall first attack Damascus, shall next advance "against him" (Ephraim.) This is the punishment of Ephraim's pride in making light (Isaiah 9:10) of the judgment already inflicted by God through Tiglath-pileser (2 Kings 15:29). A second Assyrian invasion (note on the beginning of Isaiah 7:1) shall follow. The reading 'princes' (sarse) for "adversaries" (tzaree) is uncalled for. AND JOIN, [ yªcakceek ...

11._But the Lord will set up the adversaries of Rezin against him. _The Israelites having been proud of their alliance with the king of Syria, and hoping that everything would succeed to their wish, Isaiah threatens a new change which will take away all their hope and utterly frustrate their designs, for the Assyrians afterwards took arms and waged war with the Syrians. Accordingly, when _Rezin _had been slain, (2 Kings 16:9,) that country was entirely ruined. Still more does he heighten this, by adding, _he shall mingle_; (146) for he means that the Lord will gather together and _mingle _various enemies whom he will commission to destroy the king of Syria, as the soldiers who composed the army of that vast monarchy were collected out of various nations....

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 lesser judgments, greater may be expected. The leaders of the people misled them. We have reason to be afraid of those that speak well of us, when we do ill. Wickedness was universal, all were infected with it. They shall be in trouble, and see no way out; and when men's ways displease the Lord, he makes even their friends to be at war with them. God would take away those they thought to have help from. Their rulers were the head. Their false prophets were the tail and the rush, the most despicable. In these civil contests, men preyed on near relations who were as their own flesh. The people turn not to Him who smites them, therefore he continues to smite: for when God judges, he will overco...

Verse Isaiah 9:11. _THE ADVERSARIES OF REZIN AGAINST HIM_ - "The princes of Retsin against him"] For צרי _tsarey, enemies, Houbigant_, by conjecture, reads שרי _sarey, princes_; which is confirmed by _thirty_ of _Kennicott's_ and _De Rossi's_ MSS., (two ancient,) one of my own, ancient; and _nine_ more have צ _tsaddi_, upon a rasure, and therefore had probably at first שרי _sarey_. The princes of Retsin, the late ally of Israel, that is, the Syrians, expressly named in the next verse, shall now be excited against Israel. The _Septuagint_ in this place give us another variation; for רצין _Retsin_, they read הר ציון _har tsiyon_, ορος σιων, _Mount_ _Sion_, of which this may be the sense; but JEHOVAH shall set up the adversaries of Mount Sion against him, (i.e., against Israel,) and will _strengthen_ his

THEREFORE - This verse indicates the punishment that would come upon them for their pride. THE LORD SHALL SET UP - Hebrew, ‘Shall exalt.’ That is, they shall overcome and subdue him. THE ADVERSARIES OF REZIN - King of Syria, Isaiah 7:1. It should be observed here, that twenty-one manuscripts, instead of adversaries, read princes of Rezin. The sense seems to require this; as in the following verse, it is said that the Syrians will be excited against them. AGAINST HIM - Against Ephraim. AND JOIN HIS ENEMIES TOGETHER - Hebrew, ‘Mingle them together.’ They shall be excited into wild and agitated commotion, and shall pour down together on the land and devour it. In what way this would be done is spec

EXPOSITION ISAIAH 9:1 THE TROUBLES OF ISRAEL SHALL END THROUGH THE BIRTH OF A MARVELOUS CHILD. The section of the prophecy commencing with Isaiah 7:1 terminates in this glorious burst of glad and gracious promise. The gist of the whole section is: "Israel shall not suffer from Pekah and Rezin; her oppressors shall be Assyria and Egypt, more especially the former; Assyria shall overwhelm her, crush her, lay her low; she shall remain awhile in gloom and darkness; but at length the darkness shall be dispelled; a 'great light' shall shine forth, first in the north, then over all th

THEREFORE THE LORD SHALL SET UP THE ADVERSARIES OF REZIN AGAINST HIM,.... Set them up on high, as the word a signifies; exalt them above him, and make them superior to him, and conquerors of him, meaning the Assyrians; who, being sent for by Ahab, went up against Damascus, took it, and carried the people captive, and slew Rezin the king of Syria, the head of which was Damascus, 2 Kings 16:7 this is mentioned, because the Israelites put great trust and confidence in this prince, with whom they were in alliance; and this is said to abate their pride, arrogance, and haughtiness, before expressed: AND JOIN HIS ENEMIES TOGETHER; or mix them; the Assyrian army, consisting of a mixture of various nations; or "stir" them "up", as the Targum; instigate them against him. Some understand the whole of Israel, against whom the adversaries of Rezin, namely, the Assyrians, w

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 impenitent nation (Isaiah 9:13)_ 4. _The wrath of Jehovah (Isaiah 9:18)_ 5. _Unrighteous judges and three questions (Isaiah 10:1_ Matthew 4:12 quotes the opening verses of this chapter. This applies to His double advent. The first and second coming

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 coalition of Syria and Ephraim (Isaiah 9:11 f.), _i.e._ between 740 and 735. It is one of Isaiah's earliest prophecies. It is very uncertain whether the whole is a prediction of the future, or whether, with the exception of the conclusion, it describes calamities that have already overtaken the people. On the whole the former view is preferable. It is that adopted in RV, the tenses being taken as prophetic perfects, the alternative view being given in

ADVERSARIES. Some codices read "princes, or generals". HIM: i.e. Ephraim (not Rezin). JOIN, &C.. weave together, unite as allies....