Isaiah 8:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, ”

• Isaiah 8:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  For the Lord spake thus - Spake that which immediately follows in the next verse. Warned him not to Unite in the alliance with foreign kingdoms which the nation was about forming. With a stron...

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• Isaiah 8:11 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  For the LORD spoke thus to me (m) with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, (m) To encourage me that I should not shrink for the infidelity of t...

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• Isaiah 8:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  More Extracts on the Crisis from Isaiah's Autobiography. It is not clear how many bits of the autobiography are included here, but the section for the most part probably deals with the coalition of...

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• Isaiah 8:11 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  11. For thus Jehovah spake to me. Here the Prophet contends against another kind of temptations, that is, against the unbelief of the people; and in order to make that more manifest, it ough...

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• Isaiah 8:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, With a strong hand "As taking me by the hand" - Eleven MSS., (two ancient...

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• Isaiah 8:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  For the Lord spake thus— In the subsequent part of this sermon; the prophet sets forth with what disposition of mind those worldly events are to be received, which threaten destruction to the churc...

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• Isaiah 8:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand - or else, when...

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• Isaiah 8:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1. Take, etc.] read 'Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it with the pen of a man, Maher-shalal-hash-baz.' A man's pen ] i.e. such as a common man would use for writing in large characters th...

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• Isaiah 8:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  For the Lord spake thus to me. — We enter on a new section, separated, probably, by a short interval of time, but dealing with the same subject. In the “strong hand” we have an anthropomorphic phra...

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• Isaiah 8:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER VI KING AND MESSIAH; PEOPLE AND CHURCH 735-732 B.C. Isaiah 7:8 , 9: Isaiah 7:1-8 THIS section of the book of Isaiah (Chapter s 7-9:7) consists of a number of separate prophecies utter...

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• Isaiah 8:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Fear God's Power, not Man's Isaiah 8:5-18 It seems likely that Syria and Samaria attacked Ahaz because he would not join in a federation against the growing power of Assyria. A strong party see...

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• Isaiah 8:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  In this section we have the account of how the prophet turns from his more public ministry to devote himself to a small circle of believing souls. This departure was signalized by his writing on a ta...

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• Isaiah 8:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  I pray the Reader to observe with me, the tender care of God over his people, in times of general calamity. In these verses, the Prophet is commissioned to comfort the Lord's mourners; and a precious...

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• Isaiah 8:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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 Ezekiel 1:3 : or, "...

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• Isaiah 8:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, Ver. 11. For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand. ] That is,...

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• Isaiah 8:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  For the Lord spake thus unto me Here the prophet teaches the people by his own example, as one immediately taught by God, with what dispositions they should receive all the attempts of their enemie...

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• Isaiah 8:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Judah's Encouragement. B. C. 740.       9 Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be...

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• Isaiah 8:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  With a strong hand; with a vehement and more than ordinary inspiration, strongly imprinting it in my mind. Of this people ; of the generality of the people of Judah; whose eminent danger and calam...

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• Isaiah 8:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Meanwhile Isaiah And His Followers Are Not To Align Themselves With Any Political Party. All Are Heading For Disaster. Rather He Must Seal The Testimony of Yahweh ( Isaiah 8:11-18 ). In the light...

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• Isaiah 8:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  THREATENED, BUT SAFE Isaiah 8:9-10 . Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces, &c. This is a shout of triumphant defiance which Ahaz and his people might have rais...

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• Isaiah 8:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Isaiah 8:1 . Take thee a great roll. Lowth reads, a large mirror. The Chaldaic has scripturam claram, a fair writing, which might be on a polished plate; but the Versions read as the English....

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• Isaiah 8:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

  For the Lord spake thus to me God’s overpowering hand The hand is the absolute Hand which, when it is laid upon a man, overpowers all his perception, feeling, and thinking. ( F. Delitzsch, D....

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• Isaiah 8:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Isaiah 8:1-23 THE SIGN OF MAHER - SHALAL - HASH - BAZ . The sign of Immanuel was recondite. In its more spiritual sense it appealed to faith in an event far distant. Even...

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• Isaiah 8:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  A Rebuke and an Exhortation

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• Isaiah 8:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 4:20 ; Ezekiel 2:6-8 ; Ezekiel 3:14 ; Jeremiah 15:19 ; Jeremiah 20:7 ; Jeremiah 20:9 ; Proverbs 1:15 ; Psalms 32:8

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• Isaiah 8:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Spake — With a vehement and more than ordinary inspiration. In the way — Of the generality of the people of Judah; whose eminent danger and calamity he foretells.

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