Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.
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Gill's Exposition
Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people,.... That is, the Messiah, as Aben Ezra, Kimchi, and Ben Melech rightly interpret it. This respects an act past in eternity, in God's eternal…
Barnes' Notes
Behold, I have given him - This is evidently the language of God respecting the Messiah, or of David as representing the Messiah. Rosenmuller supposes that the name David here is used to designate the…
Here, I. We are all invited to come and take the benefit of that provision which the grace of God has made for poor souls in the new covenant, of that which is the heritage of the servants of the Lord…
(a) Most modern authorities hold that the person spoken of in Isa 55:55 is the historical David, and that Isa 55:4-5 institute a parallel between the position he occupied in the heathen world of his…
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