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Isaiah 9:8 KJV
Isaiah · chapter 9 · verse 8
The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.Isaiah 9:8 · King James Version
Isaiah 9:8 in context
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.
9And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
10The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- lightednâphalto fall, in a great variety of applicationsH5307 →
- JacobYaʻăqôbJaakob, the Israelitish patriarchH3290 →
- LordʼĂdônâythe LordH136 →
- sentshâlachto send away, for, or outH7971 →
- worddâbâra wordH1697 →
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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