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Isaiah 8:19-20
Religion and superstition contrasted.
Religion and superstition contrasted.
Verse Isaiah 8:19. _SHOULD NOT A PEOPLE SEEK _- "Should they seek"] After ידרש _yidrosh_, the _Septuagint_, repeating the word, read הידרש _hayidrosh_: Ουκ εθνος προς Θεον αυτου εκζητησουσι; τι εκζητ...
AND WHEN THEY SHALL SAY - When the people, instead of putting confidence in God, shall propose to apply to necromancers. In the time of Ahaz the people were, as they were often, much inclined to idola...
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...
ISAIAH 8:19 TO ISAIAH 9:1. SOME FRAGMENTARY UTTERANCES. These fragments are of uncertain date and authorship, corrupt in text and obscure in sense. The first, Isaiah 8:19 f., is a warning against necr...
WHEN. should. FAMILIAR SPIRITS. See note on Leviticus 19:31. PEEP. Hebrew. _zaphaph_. Occurs only in Isaiah; and this form, only in Isaiah 10:14, elsewhere, in Isaiah 29:4 (whisper);...
DISCOURSE: 870 SEEKING AFTER GOD Isaiah 8:19. _Should not a people seek unto their God?_ [Note: The extreme simplicity of this subject renders any further elucidation of it superfluous.] THE appeals w...
AND WHEN THEY SHALL SAY— Here follows the address of the prophet to the Jewish nation, drawn from the argument of the preceding prophesy,—to the first verse of the 9th chapter; and then a remarkable i...
THE PEDAGOGY Isaiah 8:16-22 TEXT: Isaiah 8:16-22 16 Bind thou up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. 17 And I will wait for Jehovah, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and...
And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? Contin...
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...
SEEK UNTO] i.e. with a view of consulting as an oracle, despairing of other help. FAMILIAR SPIRITS] The forms of necromancy referred to are forbidden in Deuteronomy 18:11, and the nature of the practi...
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...
AND WHEN THEY SHALL SAY UNTO YOU... — This then was the temptation to which the disciples of Isaiah were exposed, and to which they were all but yielding. Why should not they do as others did, and con...
וְ כִֽי ־יֹאמְר֣וּ אֲלֵיכֶ֗ם דִּרְשׁ֤וּ אֶל ־
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...
THE PRINCE OF PEACE Isaiah 8:19-22; Isaiah 9:1-7 When men cease to trust in God and rely on the help of man, they often turn to necromancy and spirit-rapping. The medium takes the place of the Mediat...
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...
And when they shall say to you, Seek to them that are mediums, and to wizards that peep, and that mutter: (u) should not a people seek to their God? for the (x) living to the dead? (u) Answer the wic...
Seek of pythons. That is, people pretending to tell future things by a prophesying spirit. --- Should not the people seek of their God, for the living of the dead? Here is signified, that it is to God...
I do not think it needful to detain the Reader with long observations on this part of the chapter. The advice here given is to the same amount as the former; the Lord utterly condemns all seeking, but...
19._And when they shall say to you. _Isaiah continues the former subject, which is, that all the godly should not only use the authority of God as a shield, but should fortify themselves with it as a...
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...
AND WHEN THEY SHALL SAY UNTO YOU,.... These are the words of Christ continued, as making his appearance in Israel; and are an address to his people among them, even to his children, disciples, and fol...
And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead? Ver. 19....
_And when_, &c. The prophet, having foretold the coming of the Messiah, and spoken of the disciples he should have, takes this occasion of addressing the Jews, and reminding them of their duty, as he...
And when they, the unbelieving people, SHALL SAY UNTO YOU, in endeavoring to coax the faithful away from the truth of the revealed Word, SEEK UNTO THEM THAT HAVE FAMILIAR SPIRITS, asserting that they...
WARNING AGAINST FALSE TESTIMONY...
17-22 The prophet foresaw that the Lord would hide his face; but he would look for his return in favour to them again. Though not miraculous signs, the children's names were memorials from God, suite...
WHEN THEY, the Israelites, to whom I and my children are signs and wonders, who are fallen from God, and his true religion and worship, into superstition and idolatry, and will endeavour to seduce you...
Isaiah 8:19 say H559 (H8799) Seek H1875 (H8798) mediums H178 wizards H3049 whisper H6850 (H8772) mutter...
THE PEOPLE MUST NOW MAKE THEIR CHOICE BETWEEN THE OCCULT AND THE WORD OF YAHWEH (ISAIAH 8:19). It may be that like Saul before him (1 Samuel 28), Ahaz, recognising his rejection by Yahweh, had begun t...
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...
_And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits_ WIZARDS Wizards and “they that have familiar spirits,” are what we should now call “mediums,” through whom the dead spea...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 8:16 The difference between the remnant (vv. Isaiah 8:16) and the hardened nation (vv. Isaiah 8:19)
NECROMANCY Isaiah 8:19. _Seek unto them, &c._ As bearing upon the doctrine of necromancy, an exhaustive discussion of these verses would involve the following points: 1. Under the instigation of a p...
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...
1 Chronicles 10:13; 1 Samuel 28:16; 1 Samuel 28:8; 1 Thessalonians 1:9;...
And when they — The Israelites, who are fallen from God, into superstition and idolatry. You — My children, whom the prophet arms against the common temptation. Mutter — That speak with a low voice, a...