Isaiah 35:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.

Isaiah 35:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hebrews 12:12
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
Job 4:3-4
Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. …
Luke 22:32
But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.
Isaiah 57:14-16
And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people. …
Judges 7:11
And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host.

Topics

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Commentary

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

(vv. 1-4)

In these verses we have, I. The desert land blooming. In the foregoing chapter we had a populous and fruitful country turned into a horrid wilderness; here we have in lieu of that, a wilderness turned into a good land. When the land of Judah was freed from the Assyrian army, those parts of the country that had been made as a wilderness by the ravages and outrages they committed began to recover th…

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

(vv. 3)

3. Strengthen ... hands ... confirm ... knees--The Hebrew for “strengthen” refers to the strength residing in the hand for grasping and holding a thing manfully; “confirm,” to the firmness with which one keeps his ground, so as not to be dislodged by any other [Maurer]. Encourage the Jews, now desponding, by the assurance of the blessings promised.