Isaiah 9:5

For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire. FOR EVERY BATTLE OF THE WARRIOR (IS) WITH CONFUSED NOISE, AND GARMENTS ROLLED IN BLOOD; BUT (THIS) SHALL BE WITH BURNING (AND) FUEL OF FIRE - or else, 'every greave [ cª'own (H5430)] of (the warrior who is) armed with greaves in [bª-] the din of battle, and the martial garment (or cloak, called "sagum" by the Latins) rolled in [bª-] blood, shall be for lª- burning, (and) fuel for fire' (Hengstenberg). All warlike accoutrements shall be destroyed, as no longer required in the new era of peace (Isaiah 2:4; Isaiah 11:6;...

5._For every battle. _Here commentators are nearly agreed that Isaiah intended to contrast the victory which God was about to give to his people with other victories. Others conquer by making a great slaughter of the enemies, but here the Lord will conquer by his own hand alone. He expresses more fully what he had said, _As in the day of Midian_. (Verse 4.) The Lord therefore, he says, will not employ the agency of a great multitude, but will achieve a victory for himself from heaven. When the Lord acts by himself, every covering is removed, and we perceive more clearly that he is the Author of our life and salvation. Now, since there is a contrast which expresses the difference between the ordinary mode of warfare and the miracle of redemption, the copulative ו, (_vau_,) in the middle of the verse, ought to be rendered _but_; as if he had said, that it is usually amidst the confusion of

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 utmost danger. But when the gospel comes to any place, to any soul, light comes. Let us earnestly pray that it may shine into our hearts, and make us wise unto salvation. The gospel brings joy with it. Those who would have joy, must expect to go through hard work, as the husbandman, before he has the joy of harvest; and hard conflict, as the soldier, before he divides the spoil. The Jews were delivered from the yoke of many oppressors; this was a shadow of the believer's deliverance from the yoke of Satan. The cleansing the souls of believers from the power and pollution of sin, would be by the influence of the Holy Spirit, as purifying fire. These great things for the church, shall be done by th...

Verse Isaiah 9:5. _EVERY BATTLE OF THE WARRIOR_ - "The greaves of the armed warrior"] שאון שאון _seon soen_. This word, occurring only in this place, is of very doubtful signification. _Schindler_ fairly tells us that we may guess at it by the context. The Jews have explained it, by guess I believe, as signifying _battle, conflict_: the _Vulgate_ renders it _violenta praedatio_. But it seems as if something was rather meant which was capable of becoming fuel for the fire, together with the garments mentioned in the same sentence. In _Syriac_ the word, as a noun, signifies a _shoe_, or a _sandal_, as a learned friend suggested to me some years ago. See Luke 15:22; Acts 12:8. I take it, therefor...

FOR EVERY BATTLE OF THE WARRIOR - The expression used here has caused great difficulty, from the fact that it occurs nowhere else in the Scriptures. The word סאון _s__e__'ôn_, rendered here battle, is supposed to mean rather greaves, or the armor of the warrior which covered the feet and the legs. It would be literally translated, ‘Every greave of those armed with greaves.’ - Gesenius. The Chaldee renders it, ‘Forevery gift of theirs is for evil.’ The Syriac, ‘Forevery tumult (of battle) is heard with terror.’ Hengstenberg renders it, ‘For all war-shoes put on at the noise of battle, all garments dipped in blood, shall be burnt, shall be the food of fire.’ The idea, according to him, is, that the great future redemption will be like the deliverance under Gideon; ‘because, far from being accomplished by force of arms, with it all contention and war shall cease.’ Gesenius regards the figu...

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

FOR EVERY BATTLE OF THE WARRIOR [IS] WITH CONFUSED NOISE,.... With the sound of the trumpet and as now with beating of drums, and the huzzas and shoutings of the soldiers, the stamping and neighing of horses, the rushing of chariots, and rumbling of wheels, and the clashing of swords, spears, and shields, and these sometimes striking one against another k: AND GARMENTS ROLLED IN BLOOD; of them that were slain in battle: BUT [THIS] SHALL BE WITH BURNING [AND] FUEL OF FIRE; which refers either to the sudden destruction of the Midianites, or rather to the quick and easy conquest that Christ obtained over sin, Satan, the world, and death; which was as soon over as any combustible matter is burnt with fire. Some interpret this of the destruction of the devil, his angels, of antichrist, and all wicked men by fire, at the last day; and others think that this last clause is to be read in conne...

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 be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward. And they shall look unto the earth, and behold trouble and darkness dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness. But see what a change awaits them! Isaiah 9:1. _Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vacation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations._ Read the fine translation of the Revised Version: «But there shall be no gloom to her that was in anguish.» What a marvelous light from the midst of a dread

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