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Isaiah 9:21 KJV
Isaiah · chapter 9 · verse 21
Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.Isaiah 9:21 · King James Version
Isaiah 9:21 in context
19Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
20And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
21Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- ManassehMᵉnashshehMenashsheh, a grandson of Jacob, also the tribe descended from him, and its territoryH4519 →
- togetheryachadproperly, a unitH3162 →
- EphraimʼEphrayimEphrajim, a son of JosephH669 →
- JudahYᵉhûwdâhJehudah , the name of five IsraelitesH3063 →
- angerʼaphproperly, the nose or nostrilH639 →
- awayshûwbto turn back transitively or intransitively, literally or figurativelyH7725 →
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Here are terrible threatenings, which are directed primarily against Israel, the kingdom of the ten tribes, Ephraim and Samaria, the ruin of which is here foretold, with all the woeful confusions that were the prefaces to that ruin, all which came to pass within a few years after;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 8-21