Isaiah 9:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

Isaiah 9:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 3:12
As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
Matthew 15:14
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
1 Kings 8:55-56
And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying, …
Matthew 23:16-36
Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor! …
2 Chronicles 30:27
Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even unto heaven.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 8-21)

Here are terrible threatenings, which are directed primarily against Israel, the kingdom of the ten tribes, Ephraim and Samaria, the ruin of which is here foretold, with all the woeful confusions that were the prefaces to that ruin, all which came to pass within a few years after; but they look further, to all the enemies of the throne and kingdom of Christ the Son of David, and read the doom of a…

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

(vv. 16)

13-17. Second strophe. turneth not--the design of God’s chastisements; not fulfilled in their case; a new cause for punishment (Jr 2:20; 5:3).