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Nevertheless = For, This member (Isa_9:1-7) relates to Messiah, the Son, referring back to Isa_8:9, Isa_8:10; and carries Isa_7:14 on to its future fulfilment, See App-102.
dimness. vexation. Almost the same two words as dimness. anguish (Isa_8:22).
at the first. When Ben-hadad, in the reign of Baasha, "smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali" (1Ki_15:20)
the land, &c. Quoted in Luk_1:79.
afterward. Referring to the heavier scourge when Hazael "smote all the coasts of Israel from Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead" (2Ki_10:32, 2Ki_10:33). This land was the first to be afflicted by the armies of Assyria (2Ki_15:29, and was the first to see the promised light in the person of the Messiah.