Isaiah 55:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. ”

• Isaiah 55:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Behold, I have given him - This is evidently the language of God respecting the Messiah, or of David as representing the Messiah. Rosenmuller supposes that the name David here is used to designat...

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• Isaiah 55:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Behold, I have given (g) him [for] a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. (g) Meaning Christ, of whom David was a figure.

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• Isaiah 55:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Glorious Blessings of the New Covenant which Yahweh will Make with His People. Yahweh bids the thirsty come to the waters, the hungry to eat. Their life is now a constant striving issuing only...

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• Isaiah 55:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Him. Messiah: not David, but David's Son and David's Lord. people . peoples.

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• Isaiah 55:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  4. Behold, I have given him a witness to the peoples. The Prophet now explains more fully the reason why he mentioned “David.” It was because into his hand had been committed the promise of...

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• Isaiah 55:4 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 982 CHRIST A WITNESS AND COMMANDER Isaiah 55:4 .— Behold, I have given him for a Witness to the people, a Leader and Commander to the people . AMONGST the various means which God used...

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• Isaiah 55:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.

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• Isaiah 55:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Behold, I have given him, &c.— The witness and leader here spoken of, unquestionably, is the Messiah, whom God declares that he had given, not to instruct the Jews only, but also the people...

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• Isaiah 55:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. Behold, I have given him - the mystical David ( Ezekiel 37:24-25 ; Jeremiah 30:9 ; Hosea 3:5 ). G...

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• Isaiah 55:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1. Waters.. wine.. milk ] These stand figuratively, as the whole context shows, for spiritual blessings.

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• Isaiah 55:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  I have given him... — Better, I gave, the words referring primarily to the historic David (Comp. Psalms 78:70-71 ), though realised fully only in Him who was the “faithful and true witness” ( Jo...

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• Isaiah 55:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Isaiah 55:1-13 , Isaiah 56:1-8 CHAPTER XXII ON THE EVE OF RETURN Isaiah 54:1-17 , Isaiah 55:1-13 , Isaiah 56:1-8 ONE of the difficult problems of our prophecy is the relation and groupi...

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• Isaiah 55:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Free Offer of Pardoning Grace Isaiah 55:1-13 The Prince of Life , Isaiah 55:4 , r.v. Four times in the New Testament this title is applied to our Lord, and always in connection with His...

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• Isaiah 55:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Immediately following the song we have the prophet's great appeal. It is made in the consciousness of the victory won by the Servant of the Lord and the consequent possibility of restoration offered...

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• Isaiah 55:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  How sweet and blessed is this declaration of Jehovah, concerning the Lord Jesus Christ. Here he is revealed under those distinguishing characters. And is he not the faithful witness in heaven? Called...

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• Isaiah 55:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people ,.... That is, the Messiah, as Aben Ezra, Kimchi, and Ben Melech rightly interpret it. This respects an act past in eternity, in God's eternal pu...

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• Isaiah 55:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Behold, I have given him [for] a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. Ver. 4. Behold, I have given him, ] i.e., Christ, called David, Isa 55:3 because typed out by Dav...

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• Isaiah 55:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Behold, I have given him I have already appointed, and will, in due time, actually give the David last mentioned, even Christ, for a witness To declare the will of God concerning the duty and sal...

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• Isaiah 55:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Evangelical Invitations. B. C. 706.       1 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the water...

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• Isaiah 55:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  I have given, I have already appointed, and will in due time actually give, him; the David last mentioned, even Christ, the Son and successor of David, as is plain and certain from the titles and...

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• Isaiah 55:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Witness to The Peoples ( Isaiah 55:4-5 ). Isaiah 55:4 ‘Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, A prince (nagid) and commander to the peoples.' In Isaiah 11:10 the seed of...

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• Isaiah 55:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CHRIST GIVEN FOR A WITNESS, LEADER, AND COMMANDER Isaiah 55:4 . Behold, I have given Him for a witness, &c. In going into the wide world and entering upon the stern battle of life, feelings...

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• Isaiah 55:4 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  It is the language of infinite mercy, speaking to the abject condition of mankind. We have become naked, and poor, and miserable through sin, and God, instead of driving us from his presence, comes l...

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• Isaiah 55:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Isaiah 55:12 . The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing. Virgil has the like ideas. Eclogue 5: 62. Ipsi lætitia voces ad sidera jactant Intonsi montes; ipsæ jam ca...

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• Isaiah 55:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

  He, every one that thirsteth The cries of the water-carriers Public messages [Isaiah] would, as a matter of course, deliver publicly in the frequented streets and bazaars, and in khans, and in...

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• Isaiah 55:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Isaiah 55:1-23 AN EXHORTATION TO SPIRITUALITY AND REPENTANCE . The prophet passes from the ideal to the actual, from the glorious future to the unsatisfactory present....

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• Isaiah 55:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Heathen Invited to te Banquet of Grace

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• Isaiah 55:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Timothy 6:13 ; 2 Thessalonians 1:8 ; Daniel 9:25 ; Ephesians 5:24 ; Ezekiel 34:23 ; Ezekiel 34:24 ; Hebrews 2:10 ; Hebrews 5:9 ; Hosea 3:5 ; Isaiah 49:8-10 ; Jeremiah 30:9 ; John 10:27...

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• Isaiah 55:4 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Great Invitation Isaiah 55:1-13 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Isaiah 55:1-13 is a marvelous appendix to the fifty-second and fifty-third Chapter s. In discussing the fifty-third chapter we saw the...

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• Isaiah 55:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Behold — I have appointed, and will in due time actually give. Him — The David last mentioned, even Christ. A witness — To declare the will of God concerning the duty and salvation of men, to bear...

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