PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Isaiah
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 475,677 words · 701 reading sections
Isaiah 6:5
Isaiah 6:5 Ver. 5. Then said I, woe [is] me,.... There's no woe to a good man, all woes are to the wicked; but a good man may think himself wretched and miserable, partly on account of his own corruptions, the body of sin and death he carries about with him; and partly on account of wicked men, among whom he dwells, R…
743 wordsSECTION 62Isaiah 6:6
Isaiah 6:6 Ver. 6. Then flew one of the seraphim unto me,.... When the prophet had confessed his sin; for upon that follows the application of pardon; and when the seraph, or minister of the Gospel, had an order from the Lord to publish the doctrine of it: it is God's act alone to forgive sin; it is the work of his mi…
302 wordsSECTION 63Isaiah 6:7
Isaiah 6:7 Ver. 7. And he laid [it] upon my mouth,.... Because he had complained of the impurity of his lips, and that his mouth might take in by faith this comfortable doctrine of pardon, and it might be filled with praise and thankfulness; it denotes the ministration of the Gospel, as a means of the application of p…
287 wordsSECTION 64Isaiah 6:8
Isaiah 6:8 Ver. 8. Also I heard the voice of the Lord,.... The Targum renders it, the voice of the Word of the Lord, as if it was the second Person, the Word, that was heard speaking; but it seems rather to be the voice of the first Person, the Father: saying, Whom shall I send? to the people of Israel, to reprove th…
358 wordsSECTION 65Isaiah 6:9
Isaiah 6:9 Ver. 9. And he said, go, and tell this people,.... What is and will be their case and condition, as follows: hear ye indeed; the words of the prophets sent unto them, yea, Christ himself incarnate preaching among them; the great Prophet Moses said should be raised up unto them: but understand not; neither…
136 wordsSECTION 66Isaiah 6:10
Isaiah 6:10 Ver. 10. Make the heart of this people fat,.... Gross and heavy, stupid and unteachable, hard and obdurate; which is sometimes done by the preaching of the Gospel, through the wickedness of man's heart, that being the savour of death unto death to some, just as the sun hardens the clay; or declare that the…
298 wordsSECTION 67Isaiah 6:11
Isaiah 6:11 Ver. 11. Then said I, Lord, how long?.... That is, how long will this blindness, hardness, stupidity, and impenitence, remain with this people, or they be under such a sore judgment of God upon them: and he answered, until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land b…
190 wordsSECTION 68Isaiah 6:12
Isaiah 6:12 Ver. 12. And the Lord have removed men far away,.... Not to Babylon, but to the ends of the earth, into the most distant countries, by means of the Romans; for they were but instruments of carrying the Jews captive out of their own land, and dispersing them among the several nations of the world; it was th…
832 wordsSECTION 69Isaiah 7:1
Isaiah 7:1 INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 7 This chapter contains a prophecy of the preservation of the kingdom of Judah, from its enemies; a confirmation of it by a sign; and a prediction of various calamities that should come upon it, antecedent to the accomplishment of that sign. The enemies of Judea are named, and the be…
812 wordsSECTION 70Isaiah 7:2
Isaiah 7:2 Ver. 2. And it was told the house of David,.... Ahaz, and his family, the princes of the blood, his court and counsellors; who had intelligence of the designs and preparations of the Syrians and Israelites against them: saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim; the ten tribes; or the kingdom and king of I…
296 wordsSECTION 71Isaiah 7:3
Isaiah 7:3 Ver. 3. Then said the Lord unto Isaiah,.... The prophet, the inspired penman of these prophecies, that go by his name; what follows, the Lord said unto him in vision, or by an articulate voice, or by an impulse on his mind: go forth now to meet Ahaz; the prophet was in the city of Jerusalem, and Ahaz was w…
308 wordsSECTION 72Isaiah 7:4
Isaiah 7:4 Ver. 4. And say unto him, take heed, and be quiet,.... Or "keep" thyself, not within the city, and from fighting with his enemies, but from unbelief, fear, and dread; or, as the Septuagint version, "keep" thyself, "that thou mayest be quiet" {a}; be easy, still, and silent, and see the salvation of God: the…
284 wordsSECTION 73Isaiah 7:5
Isaiah 7:5 Ver. 5. Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah,.... Not that there were three parties in the counsel and confederacy against Judah, only two, the kingdoms of Syria and Ephraim, or Israel; the king of the former is not mentioned at all, and the latter only as if he was the son of a private person, w…
84 wordsSECTION 74Isaiah 7:6
Isaiah 7:6 Ver. 6. Let us go up against Judah, and vex it,.... By besieging or distressing it; or "stir it up" to war, as Jarchi interprets it: and let us make a breach therein for us; in the walls of the city of Jerusalem, and enter in at it; the Targum is, "let us join, and put it to us;'' and so Jarchi, let us l…
349 wordsSECTION 75Isaiah 7:7
Isaiah 7:7 Ver. 7. Thus saith the Lord GOD, it shall not stand,.... That is, the counsel they had taken against Judah to vex it, make a breach in it, and set a king of their own liking over it; so the Septuagint and Arabic versions render the words, "that counsel shall not stand"; the counsel of God shall stand, but n…
110 wordsSECTION 76Isaiah 7:8
Isaiah 7:8 Ver. 8. For the head of Syria [is] Damascus,.... Damascus was the metropolis of Syria, the chief city in it, where the king had his palace, and kept his court; of which See Gill on "Ge 15:2" see Gill on "Ac 9:2": and the head of Damascus [is] Rezin; he was king of it, as of all Syria; the meaning is, that …
1,189 wordsSECTION 77Isaiah 7:9
Isaiah 7:9 Ver. 9. And the head of Ephraim [is] Samaria,..... Samaria was the metropolis or chief city of Ephraim, or the ten tribes of Israel: and the head of Samaria [is] Remaliah's son; Pekah, son of Remaliah, was king of Samaria, as of all Israel. The sense is, that, until the sixty five years were ended, there s…
188 wordsSECTION 78Isaiah 7:10
Isaiah 7:10 Ver. 10. Moreover the Lord spake again unto Ahaz,.... By the prophet Isaiah: saying; as follows:…
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Isaiah 7:11 Ver. 11. Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God,.... For though Ahaz was a wicked man, yet the Lord was his God, as he was the God of the people of Israel in general, as a nation; and knowing his unbelief and diffidence of his word unto him, offers to confirm it by a sign or miracle: ask it either in the dep…
157 wordsSECTION 80Isaiah 7:12
Isaiah 7:12 Ver. 12. But Ahaz said, I will not ask,.... That is, a sign or miracle to be wrought; being unwilling to take the advice to be still and quiet, and make no preparation for war, or seek out for help from the Assyrians, and to rely upon the promise and power of God, and therefore chose not to have it confirm…
137 wordsSECTION 81Isaiah 7:13
Isaiah 7:13 Ver. 13. And he said,.... That is, the Prophet Isaiah; which shows that it was by him the Lord spoke the foregoing words: hear ye now, O house of David; for not only Ahaz, but his family, courtiers, and counsellors, were all of the same mind with him, not to ask a sign of God, nor to depend upon, his prom…
191 wordsSECTION 82Isaiah 7:14
Isaiah 7:14 Ver. 14. Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign,.... Whether they would ask one or not; a sign both in heaven and earth, namely, the promised Messiah; who being the Lord from heaven, would take flesh of a virgin on earth; and who as man, being buried in the heart of the earth, would be raised fro…
3,767 wordsSECTION 83Isaiah 8:1
Isaiah 8:1 INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 8 This chapter contains a confirmation of the sudden destruction of the kingdoms of Syria and Israel, by another sign; a threatening to those that gloried in the kings of those nations, with an invasion of their land by the Assyrian monarch; a sarcastic address to those that joined i…
1,036 wordsSECTION 84Isaiah 8:2
Isaiah 8:2 Ver. 2. And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record,.... Not his marriage, nor the birth of his son, nor the name he gave him, but the prophecy written in the roll, concerning the spoiling of Syria and Israel, in a very short time; that so, when it came to pass, it might be a clear and certain point tha…
430 wordsSECTION 85Isaiah 8:3
Isaiah 8:3 Ver. 3. And I went unto the prophetess,.... His wife, so called; not because she prophesied, but because she was the wife of a prophet; and besides, the birth of her son later mentioned, and his name, had in them the nature of a prophecy. The phrase of going unto her is an euphemism, a modest way of express…
205 wordsSECTION 86Isaiah 8:4
Isaiah 8:4 Ver. 4. For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, my father, and my mother,.... Which are commonly the first words children learn to say; and so it signifies that what follows should happen in a year or two; as it did: the riches of Damascus, and the spoil of Samaria, shall be taken away before the…
275 wordsSECTION 87Isaiah 8:5
Isaiah 8:5 Ver. 5. The Lord spake also unto me again,.... In the same prophecy, or in another; the Targum is, "the Word of the Lord added to speak with me again;'' but rather Jehovah the Father, or the Spirit of the Lord, is meant, since the Person speaking is distinguished from Immanuel, Isa 8:8: saying; as follow…
60 wordsSECTION 88Isaiah 8:6
Isaiah 8:6 Ver. 6. Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah, that go softly,.... The same with Siloam, Joh 9:7 and so it is called in the Septuagint version here; and the word here used signifies "sent", as it is there interpreted. Jarchi says it is a fountain, whose name was Gihon and Shiloah; see 1Ki …
358 wordsSECTION 89Isaiah 8:7
Isaiah 8:7 Ver. 7. Now therefore the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many,.... Alluding to the river Euphrates, which ran by Babylon, which was a large river, full of water, and had a rapid torrent, and so is opposed to Shiloah and its waters; and these waters are explained as follows: …
272 wordsSECTION 90Isaiah 8:8
Isaiah 8:8 Ver. 8. And he shall pass through Judah,.... That is, the king of Assyria, compared to a river of mighty waters; who should not only run over and possess the land of Israel, or the ten tribes, but should enter into Judea, and pass through it, as a chastisement for not trusting in the Lord, but sending to As…
293 wordsSECTION 91Isaiah 8:9
Isaiah 8:9 Ver. 9. Associate yourselves, O ye people,.... Both of Syria and Israel, whose two kings were confederate against Judah: and ye shall be broken in pieces; as the kingdom of Syria was by Tilgathpilneser quickly after this, 2Ki 16:9 and the kingdom of Ephraim or Israel by Shalmaneser, 2Ki 17:6: and give ear…
165 wordsSECTION 92Isaiah 8:10
Isaiah 8:10 Ver. 10. Take counsel together,.... As Rezin king of Syria, and Remaliah's son, did against Judah, Isa 7:5: it shall come to nought; for, though they came up against it, they could not overcome it, 2Ki 16:5: speak the word; what they intended, resolved upon, and determined to do; this is the issue of the…
122 wordsSECTION 93Isaiah 8:11
Isaiah 8:11 Ver. 11. For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand,.... In the strength of prophecy, as the Targum explains it; and so all the Jews' interpreters understand it of prophecy, as in Eze 1:3: or, "the Lord spake thus to me, when he took (me) by the hand" {t}; as parents or masters take hold of the hands…
156 wordsSECTION 94Isaiah 8:12
Isaiah 8:12 Ver. 12. Say ye not, a confederacy,.... With the king of Assyria, or any other; do not cry it up as a right thing, and express pleasure and satisfaction in it, and encourage others to come into it, and vote for it, and declare an approbation of it; or a "rebellion", as the Targum, that is, against Ahaz; an…
252 wordsSECTION 95Isaiah 8:13
Isaiah 8:13 Ver. 13. Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself,.... Christ, Immanuel, God with us, the Lord of the armies above and below, of angels and of men, God over all, the true Jehovah, who is sanctified by his people, when they declare him to be so; as the Targum paraphrases it, "the Lord of hosts, him shall ye say i…
3,455 wordsSECTION 96Isaiah 9:1
Isaiah 9:1 INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 9 This chapter contains a prophecy, partly of comfort to the church and people of God, against the calamities predicted in the preceding chapter Isa 8:1; and partly of punishment, to be inflicted upon the ungodly Israelites by their enemies. The comfort promised arises from the appea…
1,066 wordsSECTION 97Isaiah 9:2
Isaiah 9:2 Ver. 2. The people that walked in darkness,.... Meaning not the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem, in the times of Hezekiah, when Sennacherib besieged them, as Jarchi and Kimchi interpret it; and much less the people of Israel in Egypt, as the Targum paraphrases it; but the inhabitants of Galilee in the ti…
535 wordsSECTION 98Isaiah 9:3
Isaiah 9:3 Ver. 3. Thou hast multiplied the nation,.... With light, knowledge, honour, and glory, even Galilee of the nations before mentioned, the land of darkness, and of the shadow of death, where the people dwelt; on whom Christ, the light, shone in the ministration of his Gospel to them; whereby the number of bel…
749 wordsSECTION 99Isaiah 9:4
Isaiah 9:4 Ver. 4. For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden,.... Of Galilee, of the nation multiplied, of the spiritual inhabitants of it, whose joy was increased; and this is one reason of it, because they were delivered by the Lord from the burdensome yoke of the ceremonial law, which was broken off and abolished…
220 wordsSECTION 100Isaiah 9:5
Isaiah 9:5 Ver. 5. 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 sh…
274 wordsSECTION 101Isaiah 9:6
Isaiah 9:6 Ver. 6. For unto us a child is born,.... This is a reason of all that is said in the context; of the great light that shone upon and was seen by those that sat in darkness, and in the land of the shadow of death; of the great joy among the people; of the breaking off of the yoke, rod, and staff of the oppre…
3,827 wordsSECTION 102Isaiah 9:7
Isaiah 9:7 Ver. 7. Of the increase of [his] government,.... That is, of the Prince of peace, on whose shoulders it is; which, from small beginnings, will rise to a very great pitch and height of glory; this is signified by the stone cut out of the mountain without hands; that smote the image, became a great mountain, …
5,112 wordsSECTION 103Isaiah 10:1
Isaiah 10:1 INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 10 This chapter contains denunciations of punishment, first on the governors of the Jewish nation, and then upon the Assyrians; a woe is denounced on the makers and imposers of bad laws, whereby the poor and the needy, the widows and the fatherless, were deprived of their right, Isa…
968 wordsSECTION 104Isaiah 10:2
Isaiah 10:2 Ver. 2. To turn aside the needy from judgment,.... Such laws being made as discouraged them from any application for justice; and, when they did, were harassed with such long, vexatious, and expensive suits, as obliged them to desist, and the cause being generally given against them, and for the rich: and…
240 wordsSECTION 105Isaiah 10:3
Isaiah 10:3 Ver. 3. And what will ye do in the day of visitation,.... Not in a way of grace and mercy, but of wrath and anger, as the following clause explains it, when God should come and punish them for their sins; and so the Targum, "what will ye do in the day that your sins shall be visited upon you?'' it design…
260 wordsSECTION 106Isaiah 10:4
Isaiah 10:4 Ver. 4. Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain,.... That is, either, being forsaken by me, and destitute of my help, they shall bow down; or, "because they are without me", are not my people, and do not hearken to me, therefore they shall bow down, so David …
374 wordsSECTION 107Isaiah 10:5
Isaiah 10:5 Ver. 5. O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger,..... Either as calling him to come against the land of Israel to spoil it, so Kimchi; or as grieving that he was obliged to make use of him in such a manner against his people; or as threatening him with ruin. So the Targum, Septuagint, and all the Oriental versio…
239 wordsSECTION 108Isaiah 10:6
Isaiah 10:6 Ver. 6. I will send him against a hypocritical nation,.... The people of Israel, who might well be called so, since everyone of them was a hypocrite, Isa 9:17 pretending to love, fear, and serve the Lord, when it was only outwardly, and by profession, and not in deed, and in truth; their character contains…
241 wordsSECTION 109Isaiah 10:7
Isaiah 10:7 Ver. 7. Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so,.... His purposes, intentions, and thoughts, were not as the Lord's; he did not imagine that he was only the rod of his anger, and the staff of his indignation, a minister of his wrath, and the executioner of his vengeance; he thought he wa…
169 wordsSECTION 110Isaiah 10:8
Isaiah 10:8 Ver. 8. For he saith, [are] not my princes altogether kings?] Meaning either the kings which he had conquered, which were become his princes and subjects; or rather, such were the greatness and glory of his nobles, that they were equal in their riches and dominions to kings, and so were able to furnish him…
132 wordsSECTION 111Isaiah 10:9
Isaiah 10:9 Ver. 9. [Is] not Calno as Carchemish?.... Jarchi's note is, "as the children of Carchemish are princes and rulers, so are the children of Calno;'' as if this was giving an instance of the grandeur of his subjects; but much better is the Targum, "as Carchemish is subdued before me, shall not Calno be so?…
298 wordsSECTION 112Isaiah 10:10
Isaiah 10:10 Ver. 10. As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols,.... Which worship idols, as the Targum paraphrases it. He speaks of them as being very easily taken by him; he had no trouble in subduing them; no sooner did he come up to them, and looked on them, and saw where they were, but they fell into his ha…
198 wordsSECTION 113Isaiah 10:11
Isaiah 10:11 Ver. 11. Shall I not, as I have done to Samaria, and her idols,.... Kimchi observes, that what is said in the preceding verses was said before Samaria was taken, but this after it was taken: so do to Jerusalem, and her idols; he had taken Samaria, and carried the ten tribes captive, and now his eye was u…
111 wordsSECTION 114Isaiah 10:12
Isaiah 10:12 Ver. 12. Wherefore it shall come to pass,.... It shall surely be; what God has purposed in his heart, and published in his word, shall certainly be fulfilled: [that] when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon Mount Zion, and on Jerusalem; in correcting, chastising, and humbling the inhabitants ther…
245 wordsSECTION 115Isaiah 10:13
Isaiah 10:13 Ver. 13. For he saith, by the strength of my hand I have done [it],.... Meaning either that by the power of his army, which was under his command, or by his own personal valour, he had subdued kings, taken their kingdoms and chief cities, and ascribes nothing to the power aud providence of God; and if suc…
391 wordsSECTION 116Isaiah 10:14
Isaiah 10:14 Ver. 14. And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people,.... With that ease as a man finds a nest of birds, and takes them: and as one gathereth eggs [that are] left; by the bird, who not sitting upon them, there is none to protect them; whereas, when they are sat upon by the bird, she will fl…
6,314 wordsSECTION 117Isaiah 11:1
Isaiah 11:1 INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 11 This chapter is a prophecy of the Messiah, and gives an account of his descent, as man; of his qualifications for his office, as a Judge and King; of his performance of it; of the peaceableness of his kingdom; of the spread of it among the Gentiles, by the preaching of the Gospel…
1,019 wordsSECTION 118Isaiah 11:2
Isaiah 11:2 Ver. 2. And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him,.... The rod and branch, the King Messiah, so qualifying him for his office, and the discharge of it. This shows that Christ's kingdom is of a spiritual nature, and administered in a spiritual manner, for which he was abundantly furnished by the "Spiri…
498 wordsSECTION 119Isaiah 11:3
Isaiah 11:3 Ver. 3. And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord,.... Or "cause him to smell the fear of the Lord" {w}; that is, to discern in whom it was: this is one effect of the Spirit's resting upon him, and particularly as the spirit of understanding, and of the fear of the Lord, whereby he …
449 wordsSECTION 120Isaiah 11:4
Isaiah 11:4 Ver. 4. But with righteousness shall he judge the poor,.... The poor sinner, that is sensible of his spiritual poverty, and comes and acknowledges his sins and transgressions, and prays for pardoning grace and mercy, and hungers and thirsts after righteousness; such Christ justifies with his own righteousn…
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