Isaiah 9:10 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 9:10

“The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with finished stone; the sycamores have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone; the sycomores are cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.

KJV

The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The bricks - “The eastern bricks,” says Sir John Chardin, (see Harmer’s Observ. I., p. 176), “are only clay well moistened with water, and mixed with straw, and dried in the sun.” So that their walls are commonly no better than our mud walls; see Maundrell, p. 124. That straw was a necessary part in the composition of this sort of bricks, to make the parts of the clay adhere together, appears from Exodus 5. These bricks are properly opposed to hewn stone, so greatly superior in beauty and durableness.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Self-confident unwillingness to see the judgments of God (Isa 26:11). hewn stones-- (1Ki 5:17). sycamores--growing abundantly on the low lands of Judea, and though useful for building on account of their antiseptic property (which induced the Egyptians to use them for the cases of their mummies), not very valuable.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לְבֵנִ֥ים	le.ve.Nim	bricks	H3843 →
נָפָ֖לוּ	na.Fa.lu	they have fallen	H5307 →
וְגָזִ֣ית	ve.ga.Zit	and hewn [stone]	H1496 →
נִבְנֶ֑ה	niv.Neh	we will rebuild	H1129 →
שִׁקְמִ֣ים	shik.Mim	sycamores	H8256 →
גֻּדָּ֔עוּ	gu.Da.'u	they have been cut down	H1438 →
וַאֲרָזִ֖ים	va.'a.ra.Zim	and cedars	H730 →
נַחֲלִֽיף׃	na.cha.Lif	we will substitute	H2498 →

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
Malachi 1:4
Though Edom may say, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the…
leads to
- Ezekiel 25:14
  I will take My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel, and they will deal with Edom according to My anger and wrath. Then they will know My vengeance, declares the…
- Ezekiel 35:9
  I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
- Lamentations 3:37
  Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?
- Isaiah 9:9–10
  All the people will know it—Ephraim and the dwellers of Samaria. With pride and arrogance of heart they will say:
- Isaiah 11:14
  They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines to the west; together they will plunder the sons of the east. They will lay their hands on Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites…
Through
1 Kings 10:27
The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
leads to
- 2 Chronicles 9:27
  The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
- Deuteronomy 17:17
  He must not take many wives for himself, lest his heart go astray. He must not accumulate for himself large amounts of silver and gold.
- Job 22:24–25
  and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,

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