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Isaiah 8:3

And I went unto the prophetess, to his own wife, and she conceived and bare a son. Then said the Lord to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz, the same mysterious words which had been written on the tablet almost a year before, the word signifying either "Make speed to the spoil Hasten to the prey," or, "The spoil hastens Robbery hastens forward. "

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See also Isaiah 8:3 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THEN SAID THE LORD ... - The name thus given was to be emblematic of a particular event - that Assyria would soon take away the spoil of Damascus and Samaria. It is not remarkable that the name Immanu...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 8 Jehovah's Word Through Isaiah and the Assyrian Announced 1. _The divine instruction and Maher-shalal-hash-baz (Isaiah 8:1)_ 2. _The Assyrian to come (Isaiah 8:5)_ 3. _The answer of faith (I...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SIGN OF MAHER-SHALAL-HASH-BAZ. The date of the incidents is some time before the fall of Damascus in 732 B.C. The writing of the tablet may be as early as 735 B.C., the birth of the child as 734....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The twofold sign of Maher-shalal-hash-baz....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the prophetess_ Isaiah's wife is so called, not because she herself possessed the prophetic gift, but because the husband's designation is transferred by courtesy to the wife; as a German might have...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND I WENT UNTO THE PROPHETESS— _And I had gone unto the prophetess, and she had conceived; and she bare a son; and the Lord said unto me,_ &c. Vitringa....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CHAPTER EIGHT B. PREVISION OF IMMANUEL 1. THE PROPHECY Isaiah 8:1-8 TEXT: Isaiah 8:1-8 1 And Jehovah said unto me, Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it with the pen of a man, For Maher-shal...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hashbaz. AND I WENT UNTO THE PROPHETESS - perhaps the same as the "virgin" (),...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PROPHETESS] i.e. the prophet's wife. CALL HIS NAME] see on Isaiah 7:3....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1. TAKE, etc.] read 'Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it with the pen of a man, Maher-shalal-hash-baz.' A MAN'S PEN] i.e. such as a common man would use for writing in large characters that al...

  • 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 8 ISAIAH’S SON WILL BE A SIGN TO THE PEOPLE V1 The *Lord sen...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Isaiah called his son Maher-shalal-hash-baz. The name Maher-shalal-hash-baz means ‘quick-riches-fast-wealth’. Every time people see the boy, his name will remind them about the *Lord’s message. Then,...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I... THE PROPHETESS... — The word may have been given by courtesy to a prophet’s wife as such. Elsewhere, however, as in the case of Deborah (Judges 4:4) and Huldah (2 Chronicles 34:22), it implies pr...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וָ אֶקְרַב֙ אֶל ־הַ נְּבִיאָ֔ה וַ תַּ֖הַר

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER VI KING AND MESSIAH; PEOPLE AND CHURCH 735-732 B.C. Isaiah 7:8, 9:Isaiah 7:1 THIS section of the book of Isaiah (Chapter s 7-9:7) consists of a number of separate prophecies uttered during...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A FOREIGN FOE-GOD'S INSTRUMENT Isaiah 7:18-25; Isaiah 8:1-4 Ahaz, as we have seen, summoned the king of Assyria to his aid. This policy, dictated by human prudence, was fraught with vast peril. He an...

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

    In this section we have the account of how the prophet turns from his more public ministry to devote himself to a small circle of believing souls. This departure was signalized by his writing on a tab...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And I went to the (d) prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz. (d) Meaning, to his wife and this was done in a vision....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Prophetess. The blessed Virgin [Mary], (St. Chrysostom, &c.) or to his wife. He gives his son a different name from Emmanuel, (chap. vii. 14.) that they might not be confounded. --- Hasten. Hebrew Ma...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The prophet is commanded to commit to writing what he had to deliver. We have reason to bless God for this appointment, by which scripture records have been handed down to us. We find several prophets...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    3._And I approached to the prophetess. _What follows happened to the Prophet, I have no doubt, by a vision, for the purpose of sealing the former prediction. The vision given to Isaiah was, that he ha...

  • 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

    AND I WENT UNTO THE PROPHETESS,.... His wife, so called; not because she prophesied, but because she was the wife of a prophet; and besides, the birth of her son later mentioned, and his name, had in...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz. Ver. 3. _And I went unto the prophetess._] Prophets' wives were ancientl...

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

    _And I took me faithful witnesses_ Persons of unquestionable reputation, who should bear witness that the following name and prophecy were written and published by me, according to God's command. It i...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    WENT UNTO: _ Heb._ approached unto...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-8 The prophet is to write on a large roll, or on a metal tablet, words which meant, "Make speed to spoil, hasten to the prey:" pointing out that the Assyrian army should come with speed, and make g...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I WENT UNTO, Heb. _I came near to her_. A modest expression of the conjugal act. THE PROPHETESS; so called, partly as she was the prophet's wife, wives being frequently denominated from their husbands...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 8:3 went H7126 (H8799) prophetess H5031 conceived H2029 (H8799) bore H3205 (H8799) son H1121 LORD...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE BIRTH OF THE PROPHET'S SON (ISAIAH 8:1). As previously mentioned, one central point in this passage is the sign given to Israel in terms of the birth of three sons, two of whom were sons of Isaia...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Predictions of the Syrian invasion and of the desolations of Judah and Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Israel, Uriah, Zechariah, Maher, Shalal-hash-baz, Rezin, sons of Remaliah. CONCLUSION: If a n...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 8:1. _Take thee a great roll._ Lowth reads, a large mirror. The Chaldaic has _scripturam claram,_ a fair writing, which might be on a polished plate; but the Versions read as the English. Isaia...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Maher-shalal-hash-baz_ MAHER-SHALAL-HASH-BAZ Four words, or rather two sentences, form now the burden of this message; and they are embodied in the name of a boy. Maher-shalal,--this first sentence...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 8:3 Isaiah’s wife, THE PROPHETESS, bears the “sign-child,” MAHER-SHALAL-HASH-BAZ (see v. Isaiah 8:18)....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    MAHER-SHALAL-HASH-BAZ Isaiah 8:1. _Moreover, the Lord said unto me, Take thee a great roll, &c._ [823] [823] In the first chapter of Hosea occurs a like instance of symbolic names given by a prophet...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 8:1 THE SIGN OF MAHER-SHALAL-HASH-BAZ. The sign of Immanuel was recondite. In its more spiritual sense it appealed to faith in an event far distant. Even in its literal import, it w...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So in chapter 8 he continues in this prediction of the Assyrian invasion. Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz (Isaia...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Kings 22:14; Hosea 1:3; Isaiah 7:13; Isaiah 7:14; Isaiah 8:1;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Prophetess — To his own wife, so called, because the wife of a prophet....

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