15And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
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And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner? …
But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
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…
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