--- title: "Isaiah 11 - Study King James Bible with pooles english annotations on the holy bible" description: "Read Isaiah 11 with pooles english annotations on the holy bible commentary. 1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: 2 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, t" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/pooles-english-annotations-on-the-holy-bible/isaiah/11" --- [ Read](/kjv/isaiah/11)[ Commentary](/study/isaiah/11)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/isaiah/11) Audio 1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: 2 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; 3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:* 4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.* 5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. 6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. 7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.* 9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. 10 ¶ And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.* 11 And it shall come to pass in that day, *that* the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. 12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.* 13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. 14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.*** 15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make *men* go over dryshod.* 16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt. [Isaiah 10](/study/isaiah/10) [Isaiah 12](/study/isaiah/12) ## Commentary To verse 1 The prophet having despatched the Assyrian, and comforted God’s people with the promise of their deliverance from that formidable enemy, now he proceeds further, and declares that God will do greater things than that for them, that he will give them their long-expected and much desired Messiah, and by him will work wonders of mercy for them. For this is the manner of the prophets, to take the occasion of particular deliverances, to fix the people’s minds upon their great and everlasting deliverance from all their enemies by the Messiah. And having said that the *Assyrian* yoke should be destroyed because of the anointing, [Isaiah 10:27](/kjv/isaiah/10/27), he now more particularly explains who that anointed person was. *A rod*, or *twig*, called a *Branch* in the next clause. Parents are oft compared to roots or trees, and their children to branches. He speaks of the most eminent Branch, of that famous Son of a virgin, [Isaiah 7:14](/kjv/isaiah/7/14), of that wonderful Child, [Isaiah 9:6](/kjv/isaiah/9/6); not of Hezekiah, as some of the Jews and judaizing Christians conceit; but of the Messiah, as will evidently appear from the following description. *The stem, or trunk*; or rather, *stump*; for the word properly signifies a trunk cut off from the root; or, *root*, as the LXX. here render the word, and as it is explained in the next clause. By which he clearly implies that the Messiah should be born of the royal house of David, at that time when it was in a most forlorn and contemptible condition, like a tree cut down, and whereof nothing is left but a stump or root under ground; which really was the state of David’s family when Christ was born, as is notoriously known, but was in a far better condition when Hezekiah was born. *Of Jesse*; he doth not say of David, but **of Jesse,**who was a private and mean person, [1 Samuel 18:18](/kjv/1-samuel/18/18),[1 Samuel 18:23](/kjv/1-samuel/18/23); [1 Samuel 20:30](/kjv/1-samuel/20/30), to intimate, that at the time of Christ’s birth the royal family should be reduced to its primitive obscurity. **A Branch shall grow:** he speaks of one not yet born, and therefore not of Hezekiah, who was born divers years before his father Ahaz (in whose time this prophecy was delivered) was king, by comparing [2 Kings 16:2](/kjv/2-kings/16/2); [2 Kings 18:2](/kjv/2-kings/18/2); but of the Messiah. **Out of his roots;**out of one of his roots, i.e. branches, as this word root is sometimes used, by a very usual figure called a *metonymy*, as it is here below, [Isaiah 11:10](/kjv/isaiah/11/10); 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