Isaiah 8:11 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹¹For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying,

Isaiah 8:11 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 3:14
So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.
Proverbs 1:15
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
Jeremiah 15:19
Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
Jeremiah 20:9
Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
Psalms 32:8
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 9-15)

The prophet here returns to speak of the present distress that Ahaz and his court and kingdom were in upon account of the threatening confederacy of the ten tribes and the Syrians against them. And in these verses, I. He triumphs over the invading enemies, and, in effect, sets them at defiance, and bids them do their worst (Isa. 8:9, 10): “ O you people, you of far countries, give ear to what the…

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

(vv. 11)

11. with a strong hand--or else, “when He grasped me with His hand” [Horsley]. Maurer, as English Version, “with the impetus of His hand,” that is, the felt impulse of His inspiration in my mind (Jr 15:17; Eze 1:3; 3:14, 22; 37:1). way of ... people--their distrust of Jehovah, and the panic which led them and Ahab to seek Assyrian aid.