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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying, Let its go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal: thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass. For the head of Syria is Damascus,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established. Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying, Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD. He put his refusal very prettily, as men often do when they want to say an evil thing. He...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Observe, the prophet does not say, “Hear now, O Ahaz as if God would not deal with Ahaz on his own account, but only because he was of the “house of David.” The Lord remembered his covenant with David. God sometimes blesses men for the sake of their fathers. He might not hear a word that they had to say;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also? Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, A wonderful sign this!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And shall call his name Immanuel. Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. Whereupon a wise commentator says that, before children are able to learn, their parents should look upon the very feeding of them as a means of making them to know the difference between good and evil.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings. This was the sign-manual. Judah could not be destroyed, for our Lord was to spring out of Judah; and this was the sign that Judah must stand, because Immanuel must be born of that nation, and the time for this...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vacation, 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. Read the fine translation of the Revised Version: “But there shall be no gloom to her...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. Jesus came to Galilee of the Gentiles, and made that country glorious, which had been brought into contempt. That corner of Palestine had very often borne the brunt of invasion, and had felt more than any...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. The Revised Version reads, “Thou hast increased their joy.” If Christ comes to you, my dear hearer, as God with us, then shall your joy be great; for you shall joy as with the joy of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian. Your enemy shall be defeated, “as in the day of Midian.” Gideon was, in his dream, likened to a barley-cake, which struck the tent of Midian, so that it lay along. He and his few heroes, with their pitchers and their...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire. When Jesus comes, you shall have eternal peace, for his battle is the end of battles. “All the armor of the armed man in the tumult, and the garments rolled in blood, shall even be for burning, for fuel of fire.”...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. How is it that the Lord Jesus becomes glorious in our eyes; And he whose name is Immanuel is now crowned in our heart with many crowns,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this. If Christ is your Saviour he must be your King. “But know, nor of the terms complain,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. This promise had a measure of fulfillment when Israel was brought back from Babylon; and still is it true that, when God’s people come to their worst, there is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. The chosen people have the worst of it now in many parts of the world, but they shall...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve, that thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! O child of God, thou shalt by-and-by have a glorious...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the scepter of the rulers. No power can ever be permanently strong that is founded upon wickedness; sooner or later, it will have to come to an end. A falsehood may array itself in the garments of wisdom and strength, and go forth to fight hopefully for victory; but, in the end, it must die. The stone...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth. The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing. The Babylon, that none could resist, becomes herself destroyed and there is no one to come up to her assistance. Go at this day, and see where the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us. For the cruel kings of Babylon cut down the nations as the woodman with his axe fells the trees of the forest; but when the power of Babylon was broken, peace and quietness reigned everywhere, O brethren, what a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us? It is a fine pictorial representation of...