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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET
ISAIAH
CHAPTER 9
  1 aNevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, bwhen at the first he lightly afflicted the land of cZebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.

Footnotes
1a
2 Ne. 19: 1 (1-21).
  1 aNevertheless, the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at first he lightly afflicted the bland of cZebulun, and the land of dNaphtali, and afterwards did more grievously afflict by the way of the Red Sea beyond Jordan in Galilee of the nations.
b
Rabbinical commentators relate this to the attacks by Assyria under Tiglath-pileser and Sargon II.
c
Matt. 4: 15 (14-16).
  15 The land of aZabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;