--- title: "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible" author: "Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown" languages: [en] shelf: "Commentaries" section: 310 of 927 url: https://scriptura.si/works/jamieson-fausset-brown-commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/310/ cite: "Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, section 310. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/jamieson-fausset-brown-commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/310/" --- # Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible *Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown* The Victorian standard commentary, critical and practical, from Genesis to Revelation. ## 310. Isaiah · 13 of 79 Source: https://scriptura.si/works/jamieson-fausset-brown-commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/310/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/jamieson-fausset-brown-commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/310/#p-N [¶0] unto us--for the benefit of the Jews first, and then the Gentiles (compare "unto you," [Lu 2:11]). [¶1] son ... given--([Psa 2:7]). God's gratuitous gift, on which man had no claim ([Joh 3:16]; [Ro 6:23]). [¶2] government ... upon ... shoulder--The ensign of office used to be worn on the shoulder, in token of sustaining the government ([Is 22:22]). Here the government on Messiah's shoulder is in marked antithesis to the "yoke and staff" of the oppressor on Israel's "shoulder" ([Is 9:4]). He shall receive the kingdom of the earth from the Father, to vindicate it from the misrule of those to whom it was entrusted to hold it for and under the Most High, but who sought to hold it in defiance of His right; the Father asserts His right by the Son, the "Heir of all things," who will hold it for Him ([Da 7:13], ). [¶3] name ... called--His essential characteristics shall be. [¶4] Wonderful--(See on [Is 8:18]; [Jud 13:18], Margin; [1Ti 3:16]). [¶5] Counsellor--([Psa 16:7]; [Ro 11:33], ; [1Co 1:24]; [Col 2:3]). [¶6] mighty God--([Is 10:21]; [Psa 24:8]; [Tit 2:13]) Horsley translates: "God the mighty man." "Unto us ... God" is equivalent to "Immanuel" ([Is 7:14]). [¶7] everlasting Father--This marks Him as "Wonderful," that He is "a child," yet the "everlasting Father" ([Joh 10:30]; ). Earthly kings leave their people after a short reign; He will reign over and bless them for ever [Hengstenberg]. [¶8] Prince of Peace--(See on [Is 9:5]; [Ge 49:10]; Shiloh, "The Tranquillizer"). Finally ([Ho 2:18]). Even already He is "our peace" ([Lu 2:14]; [Ep 2:14]). [¶9] 7. Of ... increase ... no end--His princely rule shall perpetually increase and be unlimited ([Da 2:44]). [¶10] throne of David--([1Ki 8:25]; [Psa 2:6]; 132:11; [Jr 3:17], Eze 34:23-26; 37:[16, 22]; [Lu 1:32], 33; [Ac 2:30]). [¶11] judgment ... justice--It is not a kingdom of mere might, and triumph of force over enemies, but of righteousness ([Is 42:21]; [Psa 45:6], ), attainable only in and by Messiah. [¶12] zeal, &c.--including not only Christ's hidden spiritual victory over Satan at the first coming, but the open one accompanied with "judgments" on Antichrist and every enemy at the second coming ([Is 59:17]; [Psa 9:6-8]). [¶13] [Is 9:8-10:4]. Prophecy as to the Ten Tribes. [¶14] Delivered a little later than the previous one. The ninth and tenth chapters ought to have been so divided. The present division into chapters was made by Cardinal Hugo, in A.D. 1250; and into verses, by Robert Stephens, the famous printer of Paris, in 1551. After the Assyrian invasion of Syria, that of Ephraim shall follow ([2Ki 16:9]); Is 9:8-11, 17-20, foretell the intestine discords in Israel after Hoshea had slain Pekah (A.D. 739), that is, just after the Assyrian invasions, when for seven years it was stripped of magistrates and torn into factions. There are four strophes, each setting forth Ephraim's crime and consequent punishment, and ending with the formula, "For all this His anger is not turned away," &c. ([Is 9:12], 17, 21, and [Is 10:4]). [¶15] 8. Heading of the prophecy; ([Is 9:8-12]), the first strophe. [¶16] unto Jacob--against the ten tribes [Lowth]. [¶17] lighted upon--fallen from heaven by divine revelation ([Da 4:31]). [¶18] 9. know--to their cost: experimentally ([Ho 9:7]). [¶19] Samaria--the capital of Ephraim (compare as to phrase, [Is 1:1]). [¶20] 10. bricks--in the East generally sun-dried, and therefore soon dissolved by rain. Granting, say the Ephraimites to the prophet's threat, that our affairs are in a ruinous state, we will restore them to more than their former magnificence. Self-confident unwillingness to see the judgments of God ([Is 26:11]). [¶21] hewn stones--([1Ki 5:17]). [¶22] sycamores--growing abundantly on the low lands of Judea, and though useful for building on account of their antiseptic property (which induced the Egyptians to use them for the cases of their mummies), not very valuable. The cedar, on the other hand, was odorous, free from knots, durable, and precious ([1Ki 10:27]). "We will replace cottages with palaces." [¶23] 11. adversaries of Rezin--the Assyrians, who shall first attack Damascus, shall next advance "against him" (Ephraim). This is the punishment of Ephraim's pride in making light ([Is 9:10]) of the judgment already inflicted by God through Tiglath-pileser ([2Ki 15:29]). A second Assyrian invasion (see on [Is 7:1]) shall follow. The reading "princes" for "adversaries" in uncalled for. [¶24] join--rather, "arm"; cover with armor [Maurer]. [¶25] his--Rezin's. [¶26] 12. Syrians--Though now allies of Ephraim, after Rezin's death they shall join the Assyrians against Ephraim. "Together," in [Is 9:11], refers to this. Conquering nations often enlist in their armies the subject races ([Is 22:6]; compare [2Ki 16:9]; [Jr 35:11]), [Aben Ezra, Gesenius]. Horsley less probably takes "Syrians before," as the Syrians to the east, that is, not Rezin's subjects, but the Assyrians: "Aram" being the common name of Syrians and Assyrians. [¶27] Philistines--of Palestine. [¶28] behind--from the west: in marking the points of the compass, Orientalists face the east, which is before them: the west is behind. The right hand is the south: the left, the north. [¶29] devour--as a ravenous beast ([Is 1:20]; [Jr 10:25]; ; [Nu 14:9]). [¶30] For all this, &c.--The burden of each strophe. [¶31] 13-17. Second strophe. [¶32] turneth not--the design of God's chastisements; not fulfilled in their case; a new cause for punishment ([Jr 2:20]; ). [¶33] 18-21. Third strophe. [¶34] burneth--maketh consumption, not only spreading rapidly, but also consuming like fire: sin is its own punishment. [¶35] briers ... thorns--emblem of the wicked; especially those of low rank ([Is 27:4]; [2Sa 23:6]). [¶36] forest--from the humble shrubbery the flame spreads to the vast forest; it reaches the high, as well as the low. [¶37] mount up like ... smoke--rather. "They (the thickets of the forest) shall lift themselves proudly aloft [the Hebrew is from a Syriac root, a cock, expressing stateliness of motion, from his strutting gait, Horsley], in (in passing into) volumes of ascending smoke" [Maurer]. ### Chapter 10 ### Is 10:1-4. Fourth strophe [¶40] 1. them that decree--namely, unrighteous judges. [¶41] write grievousness, &c.--not the scribes, but the magistrates who caused unjust decisions (literally, "injustice" or "grievousness") to be recorded by them ([Is 65:6]) [Maurer], ([Is 1:10], ). [¶42] 2. To turn aside, &c.--The effect of their conduct is to pervert the cause of the needy [Horsley]. In English Version "from judgment" means "from obtaining justice." [¶43] take away the right--"make plunder of the right" (rightful claim) [Horsley]. [¶44] 3. what will ye do--what way of escape will there be for you?