Isaiah 9:2

People living in spiritual darkness and death's shadow have seen a great light, the coming of Christ.

Cross-references · 20

• Matt 4:16the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”
• Eph 5:8For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
• John 8:12Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
• John 12:46I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.
• Luke 1:78–79because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the dawn from on high will visit us,
• 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
• 1 Jn 1:5–7This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
• Isa 60:1–3“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.
• Luke 2:32a light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.”
• Isa 60:19The sun will be no more your light by day; nor will the brightness of the moon give light to you, but Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.
• Eph 5:13–14But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.
• Ps 107:14He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away their chains.
• Ps 23:4Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
• Ps 107:10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,
• Isa 50:10Who among you fears Yahweh, and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.
• John 12:35Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.
• Mic 7:8–9Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.
• Isa 9:1But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
• Amos 5:8seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,
• Job 10:21before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

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