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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Isaiah 7:8

Rasin. Both the king and his capital shall be ruined. --- And five. Capellus (p. 497.) would read six and five; or, in eleven years time. But (Calmet) Ephraim was led captive twenty-one years after, and the Cutheans took their place when sixty-five years had elapsed. (The year of the world 3327., Usher) --- Most people date from the prophecy of Amos to the ruin of Samaria, just sixty-five years. The former solution seems preferable. (Calmet)

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 7:8. _FOR THE HEAD OF SYRIA, C._] "Though the head of Syria be Damascus, And the head of Damascus Retsin Yet within _threescore_ and _five_ years Ephraim shall be broken, that he be n...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR THE HEAD OF SYRIA - The “capital.” The “head” is often used in this sense. IS DAMASCUS - For an account of this city, see the notes at Isaiah 17:1; compare the notes at Acts 9:2. The sense of this...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 7 The Prophet before King Ahaz 1. _The king in trouble (Isaiah 7:1)_ 2. _Isaiah sent and his message (Isaiah 7:3)_ 3. _A sign offered and refused (Isaiah 7:10)_ 4. The sign: The virgin birth...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH GIVES AHAZ THE ENCOURAGING SIGN OF IMMANUEL WHEN HE IS DISMAYED BY THE ALLIANCE OF SYRIA AND EPHRAIM AGAINST HIM. For the historical circumstances see pp. 59, 70f. Apart from Isaiah 7:1, which...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE. though the. DAMASCUS: which is soon to be spoiled. REZIN:. firebrand soon to be quenched. He was the last independent king of Syria. AND. yet. THREESCORE AND FIVE YEARS. To be made up thus: A...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _and within threescore and five years … people_ This clause is suspicious on several grounds. (1) Because of its position; Ephraim has not yet been mentioned, and a prophecy of its annihilation would...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A confirmation of Isaiah 7:7; but the thought is difficult to grasp. The general meaning seems to be that the league is an attempt to obliterate the political distinctions which Jehovah has establishe...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD, &C.— We have in these verses the grounds of the consolation given to Ahaz, namely, the overthrow of this expedition; with an admonitory caution to the Jews. Vitringa renders t...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    II. CRISIS AND THE CHRIST (IMMANUEL) Chapter S 7 - 12 CHAPTER SEVEN A. PROMISE OF IMMANUEL 1. THE CRISIS Isaiah 7:1-9 TEXT: Isaiah 7:1-9 1 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz, the son of Joth...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people. THE HEAD OF SYRIA (IS) DAMASCUS, AND TH...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-16. Isaiah assures Ahaz by a sign that Judah will be delivered from Syria and Israel....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    WITHIN THREESCORE, etc.] We should probably regard this prophecy as fulfilled when the power of the northern kingdom was finally broken by the importation of foreigners under Esarhaddon (Ezra 4:2). On...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS ISAIAH DECLARES HOW GOD’S PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING ISAIAH CHAPTER S 1 TO 9 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 7 From now on in the Book of Isaiah, the names Israel and Eph...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE HEAD OF SYRIA IS DAMASCUS... — The prediction of the failure of the alliance is emphasised. Each city, Damascus and Samaria, should continue to be what it was, the head of a comparatively weak kin...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֣י רֹ֤אשׁ אֲרָם֙ דַּמֶּ֔שֶׂק וְ רֹ֥אשׁ דַּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER V THE WORLD IN ISAIAH'S DAY AND ISRAEL'S GOD 735-730 B.C. UP to this point we have been acquainted with Isaiah as a prophet of general principles, preaching to his countrymen the elements of...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE SIGN OF IMMANUEL Isaiah 7:1-17 A new cycle of prophecy begins here, covering the reign of Ahaz. The complete history which illustrates these Chapter s is given in 2 Chronicles 28:5. The invasion...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Immediately following this new call of the prophet, we have the account of his encounter with Ahaz. Rezin of Syria and Pekah of Israel had entered into a confederacy against Judah, and a great fear po...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    For the head of Syria [is] Damascus, and the head of Damascus [is] Rezin; and within (h) sixty five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people. (h) Counting from the 25 years of the reign...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I beg the Reader to remark with me, the Lord's tender mercy to his people. Surely in this history, as in a thousand others, the Apostle's words are fulfilled: where sin abounded, grace did much more a...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    8._For the head of Syria is Damascus. _As if he had said, “Those two kings shall have their limits, such as they have them now. They aspire to thy kingdom; but I have set bounds to them which they sha...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9:1-7. But this requires further development; and it is given in a remarkable manner in the next prophecy, comprised in Chapter s 7, 8, 9 to the end...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR THE HEAD OF SYRIA [IS] DAMASCUS,.... Damascus was the metropolis of Syria, the chief city in it, where the king had his palace, and kept his court; of which Genesis 15:2 Acts 9:2: AND THE HEAD OF...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For the head of Syria [is] Damascus, and the head of Damascus [is] Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people. Ver. 8. _For the head of Syria is Dama...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _It shall not stand_ Namely, their evil counsel. _For the head of Syria is Damascus_ As if he had said, As Damascus is the head city of Syria, and Rezin is the head, or king, of Damascus, so shall the...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For the head of Syria, its capital and metropolis, IS DAMASCUS, AND THE HEAD OF DAMASCUS IS REZIN; AND WITHIN THREESCORE AND FIVE YEARS SHALL EPHRAIM, the northern kingdom, which had relied upon Syria...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    GOD PROMISES HELP AGAINST SYRIA AND EPHRAIM...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    THAT IT BE NOT A PEOPLE: _ Heb._ from a people...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-9 Ungodly men are often punished by others as bad as themselves. Being in great distress and confusion, the Jews gave up all for lost. They had made God their enemy, and knew not how to make him th...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    IS DAMASCUS; or rather, _shall be Damascus_; for the verb is not expressed in the Hebrew text, and therefore may be either way supplied. The sense is, Damascus shall still continue to be the capital a...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 7:8 head H7218 Syria H758 Damascus H1834 head H7218 Damascus H1834 Rezin H7526 sixty-five H8346 H2568 years...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    GOD APPEALS TO AHAZ ASKING HIM TO TRUST HIM (ISAIAH 7:1). Syria and Israel, in seeking to join an alliance against Assyria, called on Judah to join them, and when Ahaz was reluctant, determined to bri...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 7:1. And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jer...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Evil confederacy of Rezin and Jekah. The sign of the Virgin's Son. Prediction of impending invasion of Judah. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Ahaz, Rezin, Pekah, Isaiah, Shear-jashub. CONCLUSION:...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 7:1. _In the days of Ahaz,_ the second or the third year of his reign. Chapter s 5. and 6. are therefore out of place. Isaiah 7:6. _Let us go up against Judah and set a king in the midst of it,...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Rezin. .. and Pekah. .. went up toward Jerusalem to war against it_ THE CONFEDERACY AGAINST JERUSALEM The reason of this war is not stated: but from the desire of those kings to dethrone Ahaz, and...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 7:7 Human threats are to be dismissed and divine promises firmly trusted, for THE LORD GOD rules all events. WITHIN SIXTY-FIVE YEARS. The northern kingdom fell to Assyr

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    ISAIAH’S INTERVIEW WITH AHAZ Isaiah 7:3. _Then said the Lord unto Isaiah, &c._ In this interview of Isaiah with Ahaz we have an instance— I. OF GOD’S EFFORTS TO TURN MEN FROM RUINOUS COURSES. God is...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    FEARS AND COMFORTS Isaiah 7:1. _And it came to pass, in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, &c._ The historical statements [778] in these verses afford illustrations of spiritual truths. [778] For...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION IV. PROPHECIES CONNECTED WITH THE SYRO-ISRAELITE WAR (Isaiah 7-10:4). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 7:1 THE PROPHECY GIVEN TO AHAZ

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now Uzziah is dead and his grandson Ahaz is reigning. It came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, the king of Judah, that Rezin was the king of Syria, and Pekah was the...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Kings 17:5; 2 Samuel 8:6; Ezra 4:2; Hosea 1:6; Isaiah 17:1;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE BIRTH OF CHRIST IN ISAIAH Isaiah 7:5; _Isaiah 9:6_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Book of Revelation opens thus: "The Revelation of Jesus Christ." "We see no reason why the whole Bible is not a "revelat...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Damascus — Damascus shall still continue the capital of the kingdom of Syria; and therefore Jerusalem shall not become a part of Rezin's dominion: but he shall keep within his own bounds, and be king...

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