Isaiah 9:2

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The people that walked in darkness - The inhabitants of the region of Galilee. They were represented as walking in darkness, because they were fa...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

The people that (d) walked in darkness have seen a great (e) light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the (f) light...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Israel's Deliverer. This famous passage on the Messianic King is now by several regarded as late. The question is too large to be discussed, but it...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

that walked in darkness . the walkers in darkness. have men . saw. Quoted in Matthew 4:14-16 .
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

2. The people walking in darkness hath seen a great light. He speaks of future events in the past tense, and thus brings them before the imm...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 871 BLESSINGS IMPARTED BY THE GOSPEL Isaiah 9:2-4 . The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in th...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Nevertheless the dimness, &c.— The prophet having said, in the 20th verse of the preceding chapter, that they who directed not themselves accor...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined....
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. RV 'But there shall be no gloom to her that was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naph...
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.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Walked in darkness ] as described in Isaiah 8:21 ; Isaiah 8:22 . Have seen ] The light of the new age to which the prophet looked forward was of...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The people that walked in darkness... — The words throw us back upon Isaiah 8:21-22 . The prophet sees in his vision a light shining on the forlor...
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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Prince of Peace Isaiah 8:19-22 ; Isaiah 9:1-7 When men cease to trust in God and rely on the help of man, they often turn to necromancy an...
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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

This blessed account was fulfilled, when the Lord Jesus, preceded by his herald, John the Baptist, manifested himself to Israel. The gospel is full o...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The people that walked in darkness ,.... Meaning not the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem, in the times of Hezekiah, when Sennacherib besieged the...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. Ve...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The people Israel and Judah; that walked Or sat , as it is in Matthew 4:16 ; in darkness Both in the darkness of ignorance, and in the darkne...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Judgment and Mercy; The Promise of Gospel Grace; The Promise of Messiah; The Titles of Messiah....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The people; the people of God, Israel and Judah, and especially those of them mentioned in the foregoing verse. Walked; in Matthew 4:16 , it i...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Rise of The Great King Immanuel ( Isaiah 9:2-7 ). The rise of Immanuel is described in terms of great light and rejoicing, and is connected wi...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Isaiah 9:2 I. One almost invariable sight revealed to us in the shadow of death is the imperishableness of the past. There is good in this revisio...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

The last verses of the eighth chapter picture a horrible state of wretchedness and despair: «And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungr...
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 f...
The Biblical Illustrator

Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation The prophecy explained Let me venture to give what I conceive to be the true...
The Biblical Illustrator

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light The true Light The prophet’s vision has been fulfilled. The true light now shineth;...
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 th...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Promise of the Messiah in the Midst of Spiritual Darkness. The Birth of the God-Man Promised.
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The people that walked in darkness, namely, these same inhabitants of Galilee of the Gentiles, those who had been oppressed with spiritual darkness,...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 1:5-7 ; 1 Peter 2:9 ; Amos 5:8 ; Ephesians 5:13 ; Ephesians 5:14 ; Ephesians 5:8 ; Isaiah 50:10 ; Isaiah 60:1-3 ; Isaiah 60:19 ; Job...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The people — Israel and Judah. Darkness — The expression is general and so may well comprehend both calamity and ignorance, idolatry and profanenes...

² The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

Related Commentaries of Isaiah 9:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Isaiah 9:2