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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 7:14

Therefore the Lord himself, &c.— Therefore, &c. Behold a virgin conceives and bears a son, and she shall call, &c. Vitringa. There can be no doubt with Christians concerning the application of this text, when they refer to Matthew 1:22 where we shall have occasion to speak more largely concerning it.

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See also Isaiah 7:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 7:14. _THE LORD _- "JEHOVAH"] For אדני _Adonai, twenty-five_ of _Kennicott's_ MSS., _nine_ ancient, and _fourteen_ of _De Rossi's_, read יהוה _Jehovah_. And so Isaiah 7:20, _eighteen_ MSS...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THEREFORE - Since you will not “ask” a pledge that the land shall be safe, Yahweh will furnish one unasked. A sign or proof is desirable in the case, and Yahweh will not withhold it because a proud an...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THE LORD*. One of the 134 passages where Jehovah, in the primitive text, was altered by the _Sopherim_ to "Adonai". See App-32. A VIRGIN. Hebrew the virgin: i.e. some definite well-known damsel, whos...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The sign of Immanuel. See Additional Note at the end of this chapter. 14. _Therefore_ because of this act of unbelief. _the Lord himself_ The word is _Adonai_, as ch. Isaiah 6:1. _Behold, a virgin_ (L...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE CHRIST Isaiah 7:10-16 TEXT: Isaiah 7:10-16 10 And Jehovah spake again unto Ahaz, saying, 11 Ask thee a sign of Jehovah thy God; ask it either in the depth or in the height above. 12 But Aha...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. THEREFORE THE LORD HIMSELF SHALL GIVE YOU A SIGN - since thou w...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    7:14 the (a-11) * Emphatic article. Immanuel. (b-25) Meaning, 'God ( _ El_ ) with us.' Matthew 1:23...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-16. Isaiah assures Ahaz by a sign that Judah will be delivered from Syria and Israel....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    A VIRGIN] The Hebrew word is not the distinctive one for virginity, but denotes rather one of maturing and marriageable age: cp. e.g. Genesis 24:43; Exodus 2:8. In the first place, this prophecy must...

  • 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 7 From now on in the Book of Isaiah, the names Israel and Eph...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The name Immanuel means ‘God is with us’. The immediate meaning was that God was with Judah. So God would save Judah from the nations that opposed it. And this would happen while Isaiah’s own son was...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    BEHOLD, A VIRGIN SHALL CONCEIVE, AND BEAR A SON... — Better, _behold, the young woman,_ or perhaps the _bride, shall conceive._ The first noun has the definite article in the Hebrew, and the word, tho...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לָ֠כֵן יִתֵּ֨ן אֲדֹנָ֥י ה֛וּא לָכֶ֖ם אֹ֑ות הִ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

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

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Therefore the Lord (m) himself shall give you a sign; Behold, the virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. (m) Forasmuch as you are unworthy, the Lord for his own prom...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Virgin, halma, (Haydock) one secluded from the company of men. Alma in Latin signifies "a holy person," and in Punic "a virgin." The term is never applied to any but "a young virgin." If it meant a yo...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Reader! do not forget again, in the perusal of this most blessed scripture, to observe how the Lord takes occasion from man's unworthiness to magnify the riches of his grace. So, indeed, the Lord hath...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _AN UNBELIEVING KING_ ‘Moreover the Lord spake again unto Ahaz, saying, Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above,’ etc. Isaiah 7:10 I. ISAIAH IS DESIR...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    14._Therefore the _Lord_himself shall give you a sign. _Ahaz had already refused the sign which the Lord offered to him, when the Prophet remonstrated against his rebellion and ingratitude; yet the Pr...

  • 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

    THEREFORE THE LORD HIMSELF SHALL GIVE YOU A SIGN,.... Whether they would ask one or not; a sign both in heaven and earth, namely, the promised Messiah; who being the Lord from heaven, would take flesh...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel._ Ver. 14. _Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign._] Gi...

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

    _And he said, Hear now, O house of David_ The prophet no longer addresses himself to Ahaz singly, who would not regard his words, but to the whole royal family, all of whom he reproves, as being the k...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Therefore the Lord Himself, in a significant revelation of His almighty power, SHALL GIVE YOU A SIGN, cause a miracle to happen which would have abiding significance. BEHOLD, an exclamation calling at...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE SON OF THE VIRGIN PROMISED...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    A VIRGIN...SHALL CALL: Or, thou, O virgin, shalt call...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    10-16 Secret disaffection to God is often disguised with the colour of respect to him; and those who are resolved that they will not trust God, yet pretend they will not tempt him. The prophet reprov...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THEREFORE; because you despise me, and the sign which I now offer to you, God of his own free grace will send you a more honourable messenger, and give you a nobler sign, to try whether that will cure...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 7:14 Lord H136 give H5414 (H8799) sign H226 virgin H5959 conceive H2030 bear H3205 (H8802) Son...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE MISERABLE FAILURE OF AHAZ AND GOD'S JUDGMENT ON HIS HOUSE (ISAIAH 7:10). We must not underestimate this incident. In this total turnabout of history in Israel's most crucial time, for it would det...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 7:10 I. Isaiah is desired to offer Ahaz a sign either in the depth or the height. That the Jewish economy was in some sense an economy of signs we all admit. The Jewish prophet was to call the...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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:...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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,...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign_ GOD’S SIGN TO KING AHAZ Perhaps more perplexity has been produced among commentators by this passage than by any other in Old Testament prophecy. T...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 7:10 AHAZ, king of Judah, sees Syria and EPHRAIM (the northern kingdom) as a threat, even though the Lord has said Ahaz has nothing to fear from them. Though Ahaz is the heir of...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 7:14 THE LORD HIMSELF. The divine King offers a sign. The word translated VIRGIN refers specifically to a “maiden”—that is, a young woman who is unmarried and has not had a sexua...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    IMMANUEL Isaiah 7:14. _And shall call His name Immanuel_. His being “called so,” according to the usual dialect of the Hebrew, does not signify so much that this should be His usual name, as that th...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE VIRGIN’S SON Isaiah 7:13. _And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David, &c._ On this supremely difficult passage Dr. Kennicott preached a remarkable sermon before the University of Oxford, on the...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION IV. PROPHECIES CONNECTED WITH THE SYRO-ISRAELITE WAR (Isaiah 7-10:4). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 7:1 THE PROPHECY GIVEN TO AHAZ

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 1:20; 1 Samuel 4:21; 1 Timothy 3:16; Genesis 16:11; Genes

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Therefore — Because you despise me, and the sign which I now offer to you, God of his own free grace will send you a more honourable messenger, and give you a nobler sign. A sign — Of your deliverance...

  • When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties, Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe, 1960

    Is this verse a prophecy about the virgin birth of Jesus Christ? PROBLEM: The prophecy of Isaiah 7:14 concerns the conception of a virgin and the bringing forth of a son whose name would be Immanuel....

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