For 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,
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Gill's Exposition
For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand,.... In the strength of prophecy, as the Targum explains it; and so all the Jews' interpreters understand it of prophecy, as in Eze 1:3, or, "the Lord…
Barnes' Notes
For the Lord spake thus - Spake that which immediately follows in the next verse. Warned him not to Unite in the alliance with foreign kingdoms which the nation was about forming. With a strong hand -…
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…
Isaiah was able to stand alone against the nation during this crisis, because he knew that his thoughts were controlled by a Power not his own.
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