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Isaiah 9:6 KJV
Isaiah · chapter 9 · verse 6
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.Isaiah 9:6 · King James Version
What Isaiah 9:6 means
Born and given both, which is the whole mystery in two words. Then the names pile up on a child: Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Isaiah wrote it seven centuries early, to people living under an occupying army in the dark.
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Isaiah 9:6 in context
4For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
5For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
6For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
7Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
8The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.
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Key words (Strong's)
- governmentmisrâhempireH4951 →
- Counselloryâʻatsto adviseH3289 →
- Wonderfulpeleʼa miracleH6382 →
- shouldershᵉkemthe neck as the place of burdensH7926 →
- calledqârâʼto call out toH7121 →
- childyeledsomething bornH3206 →
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The first words of this chapter plainly refer to the close of the foregoing chapter, where every thing looked black and melancholy: Behold, trouble, and darkness, and dimness - very bad, yet not so bad but that to the upright there shall arise light in the darkness (Psa 112:4) and at evening time it shall be light,…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-7