Isaiah 9:3
Thou hast increased the exultation Thou hast made great the joy,—They joy before thee, according to the joy of harvest, As men exult when they distribute spoil.
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Judges 5:3Hear, ye kings! Give ear, ye princes! I, unto Yahweh,—I, will sing, Will make melody to Yahweh, God of Israel.
Judges 8:12And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, then he pursued them, and captured the two kings of Midian—Zebah and Zalmunna, and, all the host, put he in terror.
2 Chronicles 20:25And, when Jehoshaphat and his people came near to plunder the spoil of them, they found among them, in abundance, both riches and dead bodies and precious jewels, and they stripped off for themselves, beyond what they could carry away,—and they were three days plundering the spoil, for great it was.
Psalms 4:7Thou hast put gladness in my heart,—beyond the season when, their corn and their new wine, have increased.
Psalms 119:162Joyful am I over thy word, Like the finder of spoil in abundance.
Isaiah 10:26And Yahweh of hosts, will brandish over him, a scourge—Like the smiting of Midian at the rock Oreb,—And his staff being over the sea, He will lift it up in the manner of Egypt;
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 →