Isaiah Chapter 9 verse 11 Holy Bible
Therefore Jehovah will set up on high against him the adversaries of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies,
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For this cause the Lord has made strong the haters of Israel, driving them on to make war against him;
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And Jehovah will set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and arm his enemies,
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Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;
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Therefore Yahweh will set up on high against him the adversaries of Rezin, and will stir up his enemies,
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And Jehovah setteth the adversaries of Rezin on high above him, And his enemies he joineth together,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 11. - Therefore the Lord shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him. "Against him" means "against Ephraim," or the kingdom of Israel. "The adversaries of Rezin" could only be the Assyrians; but these seem precluded by the next verse, which mentions only "Syrians" and Philistines." Hence many critics accept the variant reading of several manuscripts sarey for tsarey - which gives the sense of "the princes of Rezin" (so Lowth, Ewald, Houbigant, Weir, Cheyne).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(11) Therefore the Lord shall set up the adversaries . . .--The Hebrew tenses are in the past (has set up), but probably as representing the prophet's visions of an accomplished future. The "adversaries" of the text can hardly be any other than the Assyrians; yet the context that follows clearly points to an attack on Ephraim in which the armies of Rezin were to be conspicuous. The natural explanation is that Syria, after the conquest by the Assyrian king (2Kings 16:9), was compelled to take part in a campaign against Samaria. The reading of the text may be retained with this explanation, and the sentence paraphrased thus, "Jehovah will stir up the adversaries of Rezin (the Assyrians who have conquered Syria) against him (Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria), and shall join his enemies against him, and those enemies shall include the very nations on whose support he had counted, the Syrians and the Philistines" (Psalm 83:7-8). The latter people were, it is true, enemies to Judah (2Chronicles 28:18), but their hostilities extended to the northern kingdom also.
