Isaiah 8:15 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 8:15

Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be ensnared and captured.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And many shall stumble thereon, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

KJV

And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

And many among them,.... Not all, though the greater part; for Christ was set for the falling and rising of many in Israel, Luk 2:34, shall stumble, and fall, and be broken: stumble at Christ, the stumbling stone; fall by unbelief into other sins and punishment, and be broken in pieces by this stone, Mat 21:44, and be snared, and be taken; and so die in their sins, and perish eternally. The allusion is to birds being taken in a snare or trap, or with bird lime, and therein or thereby held and detained.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Many - Not all; for there shall be a remnant, as was foretold, chap. iv, 2; vi, 13. Stumble - At that stone or rock, mentioned, ver. viii, 14. This was accomplished at the coming of the Messiah, whom the Jews rejected to their own destruction.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

And many among them - Many by the invasion under the Assyrian. Many were taken captive; many killed. and many were carried to Babylon. The repetition here of so many expressions so nearly synonymous is emphatic, and shows that it would be certainly done.

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Original language & word study

7 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְכָ֥שְׁלוּ	ve.Kha.she.lu	and they will stumble	H3782 →
בָ֖ם	vam	over them
רַבִּ֑ים	ra.Bim	many [people]	H7227 →
וְנָפְל֣וּ	ve.na.fe.Lu	and they will fall	H5307 →
וְנִשְׁבָּ֔רוּ	ve.nish.Ba.ru	and they will be broken	H7665 →
וְנוֹקְשׁ֖וּ	ve.nok.Shu	and they will be ensnared	H3369 →
וְנִלְכָּֽדוּ׃ ס	ve.nil.Ka.du	and they will be captured	H3920 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 21:44
He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed.”
leads to
- Isaiah 8:14–15
  And He will be a sanctuary—but to both houses of Israel a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, to the dwellers of Jerusalem a trap and a snare.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Peter 2:8
  and, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word—and to this they were appointed.
Through
John 6:66
From that time on many of His disciples turned back and no longer walked with Him.
leads to
- Luke 9:62
  Then Jesus declared, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
- 1 John 2:19
  They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of…
- John 6:60
  On hearing it, many of His disciples said, “This is a difficult teaching. Who can accept it?”
- Hebrews 10:38
  But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.”
- John 8:31
  So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples.
Through
Matthew 11:6
Blessed is the one who does not fall away on account of Me.”
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 2:14
  The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.