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the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Lukas 1:79

untuk menyinari mereka yang diam dalam kegelapan dan dalam naungan maut untuk mengarahkan kaki kita kepada jalan damai sejahtera."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Darkness;   Death;   Depravity of Man;   God Continued...;   Gospel;   Jesus, the Christ;   John;   Joy;   Miracles;   Peace;   Poetry;   Psalms;   Readings, Select;   Religion;   Wicked (People);   Wisdom;   Zacharias (Zechariah);   Thompson Chain Reference - Guidance, Divine;   Light, Spiritual;   Light-Darkness;   Peace;   Promises, Divine;   Rest-Unrest;   Right;   Way;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Covenant, the;   Death, Spiritual;   Excellency and Glory of Christ, the;   Feet, the;   Peace, Spiritual;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Elisabeth;   John;   Sun;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Darkness;   John the baptist;   Peace;   Poetry;   Singing;   Zechariah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - John the Baptist;   Malachi, Theology of;   Samuel, First and Second, Theology of;   Scripture, Unity and Diversity of;   Woman;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Angel;   Death;   Union Hypostatical;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Songs;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Sandal;   Zacharias;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Benedictus;   Death;   Foot;   Hymn;   Jesus, Life and Ministry of;   John;   Luke, Gospel of;   Praise;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Shadow;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Faith;   Jesus Christ;   John the Baptist;   Kingdom of God;   Peace;   Psalms;   Redeemer, Redemption;   Vision;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Abraham;   Benedictus;   Darkness (2);   Devotion;   Guide;   Hymn;   Infancy;   Light;   Metaphor;   Night (2);   Peace;   Peace (2);   Religious Experience;   Virgin Birth;   Zacharias ;   1910 New Catholic Dictionary - canticle;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Theophilus;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - John, the Baptize;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Atonement;   Messiah;   Papyrus;   Peace;   Shadow of Death;   Text and Manuscripts of the New Testament;   Way;   Zacharias (2);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   John the Baptist;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for November 4;   Every Day Light - Devotion for April 14;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
untuk menyinari mereka yang diam dalam kegelapan dan dalam naungan maut untuk mengarahkan kaki kita kepada jalan damai sejahtera."
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
akan memberi terang kepada orang yang diam di dalam gelap dan bayang-bayang maut, akan menujukan kaki kita kepada jalan sejahtera."

Contextual Overview

67 And his father Zacharias was filled with ye holy ghost, & prophesied, saying. 68 Praysed be ye Lord God of Israel, for he hath visited & redeemed his people. 69 And hath raysed vp an horne of saluation vnto vs, in the house of his seruaunt Dauid. 70 Euen as he promised by the mouth of his holy prophetes, whiche were sence the worlde began. 71 That he would saue vs from our enemies, and from the hande of all that hate vs. 72 That he would deale mercyfully with our fathers, and remember his holy couenaunt. 73 And that he woulde perfourme the oth, which he sware to our father Abraham, for to geue vs. 74 That we, beyng deliuered out of the handes of our enemies, might serue him without feare, 75 All the dayes of our life, in [such] holynesse and righteousnes [as are accepted] before hym. 76 And thou childe shalt be called the prophete of the hyghest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lorde, to prepare his wayes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

give: Luke 2:32, Isaiah 9:2, Isaiah 42:7, Isaiah 42:16, Isaiah 49:6, Isaiah 49:9, Isaiah 60:1-3, Matthew 4:16, John 1:9, John 8:12, John 9:5, John 12:46, Acts 26:18, Ephesians 5:8, 1 Thessalonians 5:4, 1 Thessalonians 5:5, 1 John 1:5-7

and: Job 3:5, Job 10:22, Psalms 23:4, Psalms 44:19, Psalms 107:10, Psalms 107:14, Jeremiah 2:6

to guide: Psalms 25:8-10, Psalms 25:12, Psalms 85:10-13, Proverbs 3:17, Proverbs 8:20, Isaiah 48:17, Isaiah 48:22, Isaiah 57:19-21, Isaiah 59:8, Jeremiah 6:16, Matthew 11:28, Matthew 11:29, Romans 3:17

Reciprocal: Exodus 25:37 - give Leviticus 24:2 - the lamps 2 Samuel 23:4 - as the light 1 Kings 11:36 - David 2 Chronicles 21:7 - as he promised Job 12:22 - bringeth Psalms 18:28 - my God Psalms 31:3 - lead Isaiah 2:5 - come ye Amos 5:8 - and turneth Micah 7:8 - when I sit Zechariah 14:6 - not Matthew 2:2 - his Luke 2:14 - and John 1:4 - the life John 9:39 - that they John 14:27 - Peace I leave Acts 16:17 - the way Romans 2:10 - and peace Romans 2:19 - a light Ephesians 2:14 - our Philippians 4:7 - the peace 1 Peter 2:9 - who 1 Peter 3:11 - seek 2 Peter 1:19 - a light 1 John 2:8 - the darkness Revelation 2:28 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

To give light to them that sit in darkness,.... God's elect among the Jews, who were not only in a state of unregeneracy, which is a state of darkness, ignorance, and unbelief; but in the darkness of the legal dispensation, and at this time under more than ordinary darkness and ignorance; having lost the knowledge of the righteousness of God, and of the spirituality of his law, the true sense of the Scriptures, and right notions of the Messiah; being led by blind guides, the Scribes and Pharisees;

and, were as it were also,

in the shadow of death; in a state seemingly irrecoverable, when Christ, the great light arose, and shone upon them; and communicated spiritual light, life, and heat unto them; see Isaiah 9:2 compared with Matthew 4:13 though Christ is also a light, to lighten his chosen ones among the Gentiles, Luke 2:32 but the Jews seem chiefly to be intended here:

to guide our feet into the way of peace; which we knew not: not that he came to teach us how to make our peace with God, but to make peace for us, by the blood of his cross; and so by his Spirit and word, lead us into the true way of enjoying spiritual peace here, and eternal peace hereafter.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

To give light ... - See the notes at Matthew 4:16.

To guide our feet ... - The figure in these verses is taken from travelers, who, being overtaken by night, know not what to do, and who wait patiently for the morning light, that they may know which way to go. So man wandered. So he became benighted. So he sat in the shadow of death. So he knew not which way to go until the Sun of righteousness arose, and then the light shone brightly on his way, and the road was open to the promised land of rest - to heaven.

This song of Zechariah is exceedingly beautiful. It expresses with elegance the great points of the plan of redemption, and the mercy of God in providing that plan. That mercy is “great.” It is worthy of praise - of our highest, loftiest songs of thanksgiving; for we were in the shadow of death - sinful, wretched, wandering - and the light arose, the gospel came, and people may rejoice in hope of eternal life.


 
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