All the people will know it—Ephraim and the dwellers of Samaria. With pride and arrogance of heart they will say:
And all the people shall know,.... The word of the Lord, and that it is his; and by sad experience shall feel the weight of it; or, "the people shall know the whole of it" (y); shall find that the whole of it will be accomplished, every punctilio in it; whatever is said is done, everything predicted by it, the substance of it, and every...
PROPHECY AS TO THE TEN TRIBES. (Isa. 9:8-10:4) Heading of the prophecy; (Isa 9:8-12), the first strophe. unto Jacob--against the ten tribes [LOWTH]. lighted upon--fallen from heaven by divine revelation (Dan 4:31).
Commenting on Isaiah 9:8-12
know--to their cost: experimentally (Hos 9:7). Samaria--the capital of Ephraim (compare as to phrase, Isa 1:1).