Isaiah 8:15

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

⁹Huddle together, O peoples, and be shattered; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for battle, and be broken; prepare for battle, and be dismayed. ¹⁰Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us." ¹¹For this is what the LORD spoke to me with a strong hand, instructing me not to walk in the way of this people: ¹²"Do not call conspiracy everything these people regard as conspiracy. Do not fear what they fear; do not live in dread. ¹³The LORD of Hosts is the One to regard as holy. Only He should be feared; only He should be dreaded, ¹⁴and He will be a sanctuary. But to both houses of Israel He will be a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, a trap and a snare to the dwellers of Jerusalem." ¹⁵Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be ensnared and captured.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

stumble: Matthew 11:6, Matthew 15:14, Matthew 21:44, Luke 20:17, Luke 20:18, John 6:66, 1 Corinthians 1:23

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 32:35 - their foot Job 18:9 - The gin Psalms 9:16 - wicked Psalms 27:2 - they Psalms 69:22 - a trap Proverbs 29:6 - the transgression Isaiah 28:13 - that Jeremiah 46:6 - stumble Zechariah 3:9 - the stone Luke 2:34 - set Luke 7:23 - General Romans 9:33 - Behold 2 Timothy 2:26 - out 1 Peter 2:4 - disallowed

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And many among them,.... Not all, though the greater part; for Christ was set for the falling and rising of many in Israel, Luke 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, Matthew 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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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.