Isaiah 31:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 31

⁹And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 31:9 —

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Malachi 4:1
For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Isaiah 29:6
Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
Leviticus 6:13
The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out.
Isaiah 18:3
All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.
Deuteronomy 32:37
And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-9)

This explains the foregoing promise of the deliverance of Jerusalem; she shall be fitted for deliverance, and then it shall be wrought for her; for in that method God delivers. I. Jerusalem shall be reformed, and so she shall be delivered from her enemies within her walls, Isa. 31:6, 7. Here is, 1. A gracious call to repentance. This was the Lord’s voice crying in the city, the voice of the rod, t…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. Rather, “shall pass beyond his strongholds”; he Shall not stop to take refuge in it through fear (Jud 20:47; Jr 48:28) [Gesenius]. ensign--the banner of Jehovah protecting the Jews [Maurer]. fire ... furnace--“light” and “fire,” namely, of Jehovah’s altar at Jerusalem (Is 29:1). Perhaps “furnace,” as distinguished from “fire,” may mean that His dwelling-place (His hearth) was at Jerusalem (comp…