Isaiah 8:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

Isaiah 8:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Peter 1:19
We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
2 Timothy 3:15-17
And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. …
Isaiah 30:8-11
Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: …
John 5:39
Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
Psalms 119:130
The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 16-22)

In these verses we have, I. The unspeakable privilege which the people of God enjoy in having the oracles of God consigned over to them, and being entrusted with the sacred writings. That they may sanctify the Lord of hosts, may make him their fear and find him their sanctuary, bind up the testimony, Isa. 8:16. Note, It is a great instance of God’s care of his church and love to it that he has lod…

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

(vv. 20)

20. To the law, &c.--the revelation of God by His prophet (Is 8:16), to which he directs them to refer those who would advise necromancy. if they speak not ... it is because--English Version understands “they” as the necromancers. But the Hebrew rendered “because” is not this but “who”; and “if not,” ought rather to be “shall they not”; or, truly they shall speak according to this word, who have n…