A roll — Or, a great volume, because the prophecy to be written in it was large, and God would have it written in large and legible characters. Pen — With such a pen as writers use. Concerning — Concerning that thing which is signified by the name of the child, which is here mentioned by way of anticipation.
CHAPTER VIII _Prediction respecting the conquest of Syria and Israel by the_ _Assyrians_, 1-4. _Israel, for rejecting the_ gentle stream _of Shiloah, near_ _Jerusalem, is threatened to be overflow...
TAKE THEE A GREAT ROLL - The word which is here translated ‘roll’ more properly signifies tablet. So the Chaldee renders it. Those tablets were made of wood, metal, or stone, for the purpose of writin...
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...
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....
MOREOVER. There is no break in the prophecy. ROLL. tablet. Elsewhere only in Isaiah 3:23. IN IT. on it. A MAN'S PEN. the carving tool of the people. The writing was to be legible, in the language of...
Comp. ch. Isaiah 30:8; Habakkuk 2:2. _a great roll_ A GREAT TABLET (R.V.). The word is used in ch. Isaiah 3:23 of polished metal mirrors; here it means a smooth flat tablet of wood, stone or metal. _w...
The twofold sign of Maher-shalal-hash-baz....
MOREOVER, THE LORD SAID— The other section of this discourse, which reaches to the 7th verse of the next chapter, is nearly of the same argument with that preceding: it is prophetical, and contains ma...
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...
Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Maher-shalal-hashbaz. Isaiah 8:1 and Isaiah 9:7. The first seven verses of Isaiah 9:1 belong to t...
8:1 Maher-shalal-hash-baz. (g-19) Meaning, 'Swift for spoil, hasty for prey.'...
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...
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...
VIII. (1) MOREOVER THE LORD SAID UNTO ME... — The prophecy that follows was clearly separated by an interval of some kind, probably about a year, from that in Isaiah 7. In the meantime much that had h...
וַ יֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֵלַ֔י קַח ־לְךָ֖ גִּלָּי
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...
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...
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...
Moreover the LORD said to me, Take thee a (a) great roll, and write in it (b) with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz. (a) That you may write in great letters to the intent that it may be more...
Book. This mystery would require a large explanation. (Worthington) --- Pen. Literally, "style." (Haydock) --- Write intelligibly. Here all is plain. (Calmet) --- Take. Protestants, "concerning Mahers...
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...
CONTENTS The prophet is in this chapter opening a subject, concerning the future troubles of Israel and Judah, by reason of their sins, and in a spirit of prophecy pointing out the destruction of bot...
1._And Jehovah said to me. _(117) This prophecy contains nothing new, but is a confirmation of the preceding one, in which Isaiah predicted the approaching desolation of the kingdom of Israel and Syri...
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...
MOREOVER THE LORD SAID UNTO ME,.... This is another prophecy, confirming the same thing that was promised in the preceding chapter Isaiah 7:1; namely, safety to the Jews from the two kings of Syria an...
Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz. Ver. 1. _Take thee a great roll._] Or, Volume; so called either because it was...
_Moreover, the Lord said unto me_ Here begins “the second section of this discourse, which reaches to the seventh verse of the next chapter, and is nearly of the same argument with the preceding; bein...
A DOUBLE PROPHETIC SIGN...
Moreover the Lord said unto me, apparently not long after the event related in the last chapter, TAKE THEE A GREAT ROLL, evidently a large writing-tablet of the kind usually employed, AND WRITE IN IT...
MAHERSHALALHASHBAZ: _ Heb._ In making speed to the spoil he hasteneth the prey. Or, make speed, etc...
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...
ISAIAH CHAPTER 8 Syria and Israel should be subdued by Assyria, ISAIAH 8:1. Judah also should be afflicted, ISAIAH 8:5, God's judgments irresistible, and to be feared, ISAIAH 8:9. The Lord is a sanctu...
Isaiah 8:1 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) Take H3947 (H8798) large H1419 scroll H1549 write H3789 ...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 8:1 Through Isaiah’s son, God provides a witness to his promise of deliverance of Judah from the coalition of Syria and Israel. ⇐...
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...
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...
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...
Habakkuk 2:2; Habakkuk 2:3; Isaiah 30:8; Jeremiah 36:2; Jeremiah 36:28