Isaiah 9:1

O people walking in darkness, behold a great light: ye that dwell in the region and shadow of death, a light shall shine upon you.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.

In Context

2The multitude of the people which thou hast brought down in thy joy, they shall even rejoice before thee as they that rejoice in harvest, and as they that divide the spoil.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:24I also will walk with you with a perverse spirit, and I also will smite you seven times for your sins.

1 Kings 15:19Make a covenant between me and thee, and between my father and thy father: lo! I have sent forth to thee gold and silver for gifts: come, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may go up from me.

2 Kings 17:5And the king of the Assyrians went up against all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.

2 Chronicles 16:4And the son of Hadad hearkened to King Asa, and sent the captains of his host against the cities of Israel; and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-maim, and all the country round Naphtali.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 9:1

The prophet in this chapter (according to the directions given him, ch. iii. 10, 11 ) saith to the righteous, It shall be well with thee, but Woe to the wicked, it shall be ill with him. Here are, I. Gracious promises to those that adhere to the law and to the testimony; while those that seek to familiar spirits shall be driven into darkness and dimness, they shall see a great light, relief in the midst of their distresses, typical of gospel grace. 1. In the doctrine of the Messiah, ver. 4, 5 . 3. His government… Read the whole commentary →

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