-
AND VEX IT - Margin, ‘Weaken it.’ Probably the word means to throw
into consternation or fear, by besieging it - “Gesenius.”
AND LET US MAKE A BREACH THEREIN - Let us break down the walls, etc.
AND...
-
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...
-
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...
-
VEX. terrify.
THE SON OF TABEAL: i.e. Rezin, king of Syria....
-
The project of Rezin and Pekah is opposed to the purpose of Jehovah
and shall come to nought. The verses form a single sentence, 5 and 6
being the protasis and 7 the apodosis....
-
_and vex it_ Rather FRIGHTEN IT (cf. Isaiah 7:16, where the _Qal_of
the same verb means "cower"), unless we adopt a conjecture of Gesenius
giving the sense "press it hard." The idea, however, is proba...
-
SAY UNTO HIM, TAKE HEED— The consolatory part of this discourse,
concerning the deliverance of the city, extends from this to the 17th
verse: in which we have, _first,_ a promise of the deliverance of...
-
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...
-
Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach
therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of
Tabeal:
LET US GO UP AGAINST JUDAH, AND VEX IT - throw it into co...
-
1-16. Isaiah assures Ahaz by a sign that Judah will be delivered from
Syria and Israel....
-
TABEAL] the name is Syrian, not Hebrew: see prefatory note....
-
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...
-
LET US MAKE A BREACH THEREIN FOR US... — The words imply an assault
on the line of fortresses that defended Judah (2 Chronicles 26:9; 2
Chronicles 32:1). If they were won the issue of the war would be...
-
נַעֲלֶ֤ה בִֽ יהוּדָה֙ וּ נְקִיצֶ֔נָּה
וְ נַבְ
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
Let us go up against Judah, and trouble it, and let us conquer it for
ourselves and set a king in the midst of it, [even] the son of (g)
Tabeal:
(g) Who was an Israelite, and as it seems, enemy to th...
-
_Tabeel. Chaldean, "whom we shall think proper." He will not so much
as name him._...
-
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...
-
6._Let us go up_. That is, _Let us make an invasion _ נקיצנה
(_nekitzennah_) is rendered by some, _Let us distress _or _afflict_;
which is also expressed by the derivation of the word. But in this
con...
-
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...
-
LET US GO UP AGAINST JUDAH, AND VEX IT,.... By besieging or
distressing it; or "stir it up" to war, as Jarchi interprets it:
AND LET US MAKE A BREACH THEREIN FOR US; in the walls of the city of
Jerus...
-
Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach
therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, [even] the son of
Tabeal:
Ver. 6. _Let us go up against Judah and vex it._] So they...
-
_Syria and Ephraim have taken evil_, or mischievous _counsel, saying,
Let us go up against Judah, and vex it_ Hebrew, נקיצנה, _harass,
weary_, or _distress it; and make a breach therein_ Violently bre...
-
VEX:
Or, waken...
-
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...
-
LET US MAKE A BREACH THEREIN; either,
1. Break and divide that country into two parts, one for time, and
another for me; or rather,
2. Break their power and kingdom, and subdue it to ourselves: for,...
-
Isaiah 7:6 up H5927 (H8799) Judah H3063 trouble H6973 (H8686) gap
H1234 (H8686) set H4427 ...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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:...
-
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,...
-
_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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
SECTION IV. PROPHECIES CONNECTED WITH THE SYRO-ISRAELITE WAR (Isaiah
7-10:4).
EXPOSITION
ISAIAH 7:1
THE PROPHECY GIVEN TO AHAZ
-
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...
-
Genesis 27:46; Isaiah 14:13; Isaiah 14:8; Isaiah 2:3; Isaiah 5:24...
-
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...
-
Let us — Break their power and kingdom and subdue it to ourselves....