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Verse Isaiah 8:12. _SAY YE NOT, A CONFEDERACY_ - "Say ye not, It is
holy"] קשר _kesher_. Both the reading and the sense of this word
are doubtful. The _Septuagint_ manifestly read קשה _kashah_; for
t...
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SAY YE NOT - Do not join in their purposes of forming a confederacy.
Do not unite with the king and the people of Judah in their alarms
about the threatened invasion by the kings of Syria and Samaria,...
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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...
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MORE EXTRACTS ON THE CRISIS FROM ISAIAH'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. It is not
clear how many bits of the autobiography are included here, but the
section for the most part probably deals with the coalition of Sy...
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CONFEDERACY. Hebrew. _kesher._ Never used in. good sense.
TO ALL THEM TO WHOM. whensoever, or whereof.
NEITHER, &C. Quoted in 1 Peter 3:14; 1 Peter 3:15.
THEIR FEAR. what they fear, or with their f...
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Isaiah was able to stand alone against the nation during this crisis,
because he knew that his thoughts were controlled by a Power not his
own....
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_A confederacy_ Strictly: A CONSPIRACY (R.V.). But the word
"conspiracy" does not necessarily imply (as some have thought) treason
within the state. It may be used (as the verb is in Nehemiah 4:2) of...
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DISCOURSE: 868
GOD THE ONLY PROPER OBJECT OF FEAR
Isaiah 8:12. _Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this
people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be
afraid. Sanctif...
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THE PROMISE Isaiah 8:9-15
TEXT: Isaiah 8:9-15
9 Make an uproar, O ye peoples, and be broken in pieces; and give ear,
all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces;
gird yourselve...
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Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say,
A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
The words of Yahweh.
Verse 12. SAY YE NOT, A CONFEDERACY - rather. A...
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8:12 Conspiracy, (d-5) Conspiracy; (d-13) Or 'Confederacy,' as 2 Kings
11:14 ....
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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...
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A CONFEDERACY] alluding to the alliance between Israel and Syria,
which caused so much fear in Judah (Isaiah 7:2). The same word is,
however, elsewhere rendered 'conspiracy' or 'treason' (2 Kings 17:4...
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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...
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SAY YE NOT, A CONFEDERACY... — The words have been very differently
interpreted. (1) The confederacy has been thought to be that between
Syria or Ephraim, which had at first filled the people with ter...
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לֹא ־תֹאמְר֣וּן קֶ֔שֶׁר לְ כֹ֧ל
אֲשֶׁר ־יֹאמַ
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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...
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FEAR GOD'S POWER, NOT MAN'S
Isaiah 8:5-18
It seems likely that Syria and Samaria attacked Ahaz because he would
not join in a federation against the growing power of Assyria. A
strong party seems to...
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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...
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Say ye not, A (n) confederacy, to all [them to] whom this people shall
say, A confederacy; neither fear ye (o) their fear, nor be afraid.
(n) Consent not you who are godly to the league and friendshi...
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_Conspiracy. In despair, they wish to submit to the enemy, ver. 6.
Isaias exhorts them to have recourse rather to the Lord. (Calmet)_...
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I pray the Reader to observe with me, the tender care of God over his
people, in times of general calamity. In these verses, the Prophet is
commissioned to comfort the Lord's mourners; and a precious...
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12._Say not, a conspiracy. _First, we must consider what was the
condition of that people, for they saw that they were not provided
with numerous forces, and were not able to contend in battle against...
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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...
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SAY YE NOT, A CONFEDERACY,.... With the king of Assyria, or any other;
do not cry it up as a right thing, and express pleasure and
satisfaction in it, and encourage others to come into it, and vote fo...
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Say ye not, A confederacy, to all [them to] whom this people shall
say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
Ver. 12. _Say ye not a confederacy._] A confederacy, a confederacy -...
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_For the Lord spake thus unto me_ Here the prophet teaches the people
by his own example, as one immediately taught by God, with what
dispositions they should receive all the attempts of their enemies...
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Say ye not, "A confederacy," to all them to whom this people shall
say, "A confederacy," literally, "Do not call conspiracy all that this
people calls conspiracy," the prophet and his disciples and ad...
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A REBUKE AND AN EXHORTATION...
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9-16 The prophet challenges the enemies of the Jews. Their efforts
would be vain, and themselves broken to pieces. It concerns us, in
time of trouble, to watch against all such fears as put us upon
c...
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SAY YE NOT, thou, Isaiah, and thine and my children, A confederacy; do
not approve of or consent to this wicked design of making a
confederacy with the king of Assyria. THEIR FEAR; that thing which
th...
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Isaiah 8:12 say H559 (H8799) conspiracy H7195 people H5971 call H559
(H8799) conspiracy H7195 afraid H3372 ...
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MEANWHILE ISAIAH AND HIS FOLLOWERS ARE NOT TO ALIGN THEMSELVES WITH
ANY POLITICAL PARTY. ALL ARE HEADING FOR DISASTER. RATHER HE MUST SEAL
THE TESTIMONY OF YAHWEH (ISAIAH 8:11).
In the light of this f...
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CONFEDERACY
The reference is to the attempt to terrify Judah by the confederacy
between Syria and Samaria. (Isaiah 7:1); (Isaiah 7:2)....
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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...
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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...
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_Neither fear ye their fear._
Sanctify the Lord of hosts Himself
SANCTIFYING THE LORD
To sanctify Jehovah is in mind and in practice to recognise Him as the
holy God, the Lord who is absolute, free...
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_For the Lord spake thus to me_
GOD’S OVERPOWERING HAND
The hand is the absolute Hand which, when it is laid upon a man,
overpowers all his perception, feeling, and thinking.
(_F. Delitzsch, D. D._...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 8:11 The holy God, who is the SANCTUARY for
frightened human beings who turn to him, is also the SNARE for those
who do not fear him....
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THREATENED, BUT SAFE
Isaiah 8:9. _Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken
in pieces, &c._
This is a shout of triumphant defiance which Ahaz and his people might
have raised, had the...
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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...
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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...
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1 Peter 3:14; 1 Peter 3:15; 2 Kings 16:5; Isaiah 51:12; Isaiah 51:13