Isaiah 9:3

+ 9:3. MP: The light that comes to the Gentiles also enlarges Israel. (See also context of Is 9:1-2, and Is 42:6d, 49:6). (John 10:16; Rom 11:25; Eph 2:14) You have multiplied the nation. 2 You have increased their joy. They rejoice before you according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the plunder.

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In The King James Version

Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

In Context

2The people living in darkness have seen a great light. 2 Those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them the light has shined. + 9:2. (1-2) Quoted in Matt 4:15-16 + 9:2. Quoted in Luke 1:79 1

4For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian [Strife].

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Cross References

Psalms 4:7You have put gladness in my heart, 2 more than when their grain and their new wine are increased. 1

Psalms 119:162שׂ ( Sas, Rejoice) I rejoice at your word, 2 as one who finds great plunder. 1

Isaiah 10:26Adonai Tzva'ot [Yahweh Commander of heaven’s armies] will stir up a scourge against him, as in the slaughter of Midian [Strife] at the rock of Oreb. His rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up like he did against Egypt [Abode of slavery].

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 9:2-8

Judgment and Mercy; The Promise of Gospel Grace; The Promise of Messiah; The Titles of Messiah. ( b. c. 740.) 1 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. 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… Read the whole commentary →

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