Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Isaiah 8:4
This prophecy was fulfilled, Damascus being captured by the Assyrians in 732 b.c., and Samaria ten years later: cp. Isaiah 10:9.
This prophecy was fulfilled, Damascus being captured by the Assyrians in 732 b.c., and Samaria ten years later: cp. Isaiah 10:9.
Verse Isaiah 8:4. _FOR BEFORE THE CHILD_] For _my father and my mother_, one MS. and the _Vulgate_ have _his father and his mother_. The prophecy was accordingly accomplished within three years; when...
FOR BEFORE ... - This must have occurred in a short time - probably before the expiration of three years. A child would usually learn to address his parents in that time. In fact, the event here predi...
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....
BEFORE. The interval was twenty-one months from the prophecy, twelve from the birth. CHILD. sucking child: as in Isaiah 7:16. Not the same word as in Isaiah 8:18 SHALL BE TAKEN. So it was: in the th...
The period here indicated, about a year, is of course shorter than in ch. Isaiah 7:16, the date of the prediction being about a year later....
The twofold sign of Maher-shalal-hash-baz....
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...
For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria. FOR BEFORE THE CHILD SHA...
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,...
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...
FOR BEFORE THE CHILD SHALL HAVE KNOWLEDGE TO CRY... — Here then was another sign like that of Isaiah 7:14. The two witnesses of Isaiah 8:2 were probably summoned to the circumcision and naming of the...
כִּ֗י בְּ טֶ֨רֶם֙ יֵדַ֣ע הַ נַּ֔עַר קְרֹ֖א
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...
For before the (e) child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the (f) king of Assyria. (e) Before any chil...
_Assyrians. Theglathphalassar, the next year, took the Damascenes to Kir, and Nephthali, Reuben, Gad, and Manasses into captivity. Yet the kingdom continued some time longer. Never was prediction more...
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...
4._Truly before the child have knowledge to cry. _This is an interpretation both of the dark saying and of the vision which was added to it; for although God did not intend to speak in direct language...
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...
FOR BEFORE THE CHILD SHALL HAVE KNOWLEDGE TO CRY, MY FATHER, AND MY MOTHER,.... Which are commonly the first words children learn to say; and so it signifies that what follows should happen in a year...
For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria. Ver. 4. _For before the chi...
_Before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father_, &c. To speak and know his parents; which is within the space of two years. And this agrees with the other prophecy, Isaiah 7:16. For it requi...
For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, "My father," and, "My mother," that is, before the passing of another year, THE RICHES OF DAMASCUS AND THE SPOIL OF SAMARIA SHALL BE TAKEN AWAY BEFORE...
A DOUBLE PROPHETIC SIGN...
THE RICHES OF DAMASCUS, AND THE SPOIL OF SAMARIA SHALL BE TAKEN AWAY BEFORE THE KING OF ASSYRIA: Or, He that is before the King of Assyria shall take away the riches 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...
TO CRY, MY FATHER, AND MY MOTHER; to speak, and to know his parents; which is within the space of two years. And this agrees with the other prophecy, ISAIAH 7:16, BEFORE THE CHILD SHALL KNOW TO REFUSE...
Isaiah 8:4 child H5288 knowledge H3045 (H8799) cry H7121 (H8800) father H1 mother H517 riches H2428 Damascus...
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...
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...
2 Kings 15:29; 2 Kings 16:9; 2 Kings 17:3; 2 Kings 17:5; 2 Kings 17:6
To cry — To speak and to know his parents; which is within the space of two years. And his agrees with the other prophecy, Isaiah 7:16. Before the child shall know to refuse the evil and chuse the goo...