Isaiah 9:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars. ”

Isaiah 9:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The bricks are fallen down - The language of this verse is figurative; but the sentiment is plain. It contains the confession of the inhabitants of Samaria, that their affairs were in a ruinous a...
Isaiah 9:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

The (n) bricks have fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change [them into] cedars. (n) We were but weak, when the enemy overcame us, but we will...
Isaiah 9:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 9:8 to Isaiah 10:4 . Yahweh Smites Ephraim with Stroke after Stroke. It is generally agreed that Isaiah 5:26-29 formed the closing strophe of this poem (p. 440). The date is probably be...
Isaiah 9:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

10. The bricks are fallen down. These are the words of men who were obstinate, and who despised the calamity which they had sustained, as if it had been of advantage to them, because it affo...
Isaiah 9:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars. The bricks - "The eastern bricks," says Sir John Chardin, (see Harme...
Isaiah 9:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The Lord sent a word into Jacob— We have here the third section of the fifth discourse, which reaches to the fifth verse of the next chapter; it is divided into four parts, and exhibits so many d...
Isaiah 9:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars. The bricks are fallen down. In the East bricks are generally s...
Isaiah 9:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

(continued) 8. Jacob.. Israel] Both names here stand for the northern kingdom, as is made clear by what follows in the next v.
Isaiah 9:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The bricks are fallen down... — Sun-dried bricks and the cheap timber of the sycamore ( 1 Kings 10:27 ) were the common materials used for the dwellings of the poor, hewn stones and cedar for the p...
Isaiah 9:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER VII THE MESSIAH WE have now reached that point of Isaiah's prophesying at which the Messiah becomes the most conspicuous figure on his horizon. Let us take advantage of it to gather into...
Isaiah 9:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

False Leadership Brings Ruin Isaiah 9:8-17 The grievous sins of the Chosen People are again enumerated. They defied God, Isaiah 8:9-10 . They refused to repent; they were blind and deaf and pr...
Isaiah 9:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Here we have the message of hope (verses Isa 9:1-7) in the glorious picture of the Coming Deliverer, with the equally glorious record of the results of His Coming. It is one of the greatest Messianic...
Isaiah 9:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

What is here said, though it may have a peculiar reference to the state of the Church in the days of the prophet, is not so limited, but that it hath respect to the Church in all ages. The Lord hath...
Isaiah 9:10 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

PRESUMPTUOUS SELF-DECEIVERS ‘The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones.’ Isaiah 9:10 I. It was difficult to convince these Israelites that they were sinners. —Driven fr...
Isaiah 9:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The bricks are fallen down ,.... Houses made of bricks, which were without the cities besieged and destroyed by the Assyrians; of which the haughty Israelites made no account, looking upon such a de...
Isaiah 9:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change [them into] cedars. Ver. 10. The bricks are fallen down. ] Not thrown down by Provide...
Isaiah 9:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Lord sent a word , &c. A prophetical and threatening message by me: for now the prophet, having inserted some consolatory passages for the support of God's faithful people, returns to his fo...
Isaiah 9:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Threatenings against Judah; Threatenings against Israel. B. C. 740. 8 The Lord sent a...
Isaiah 9:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones. It is true, we have received some damages from our enemies; but Rezin and the Syrians being now our friends and confederates, we doub...
Isaiah 9:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The First Chastisement, Invasion by Syria and Philistia ( Isaiah 9:8-12 ). Analysis. · The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it has lighted on Israel ( Isaiah 9:8 ). · And all the people will kno...
Isaiah 9:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE OUTSTRETCHED HAND OF GOD Isaiah 9:8 to Isaiah 10:4 . But His hand is stretched out still . Much is said in the Bible concerning the hand of God [926] Consider what the hand is to man: it is...
Isaiah 9:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 9:1 . The dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation. Dr. Lightfoot infers from this, that there was much greater affliction in the first days of her vexation. All the Versions differ...
Isaiah 9:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones A drinking song It has been conjectured that these words are a fragment of a drinking song actually sung in Ephraim. ( Prof. J. S...
Isaiah 9:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Isaiah 9:1-23 THE TROUBLES OF ISRAEL SHALL END THROUGH THE BIRTH OF A MARVELOUS CHILD . The section of the prophecy commencing with Isaiah 7:1 terminates...
Isaiah 9:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jehovah's Hand Stretched our in Judgment
Isaiah 9:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 10:27 ; 1 Kings 7:9-12 ; Malachi 1:4
Isaiah 9:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Stones — We have received some damage; but, we doubt not we shall quickly repair it with advantage.

Isaiah 9:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 9:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 9:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 9:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 9:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 9:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 9:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 9:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 9:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 9:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 9:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 9:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 9:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 9:10 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 9:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 9:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 9:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 9:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 9:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 9:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 9:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Isaiah 9:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 9:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 9:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 9:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 9:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 9:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes