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Geneva Study Bible Commentary

Isaiah 8:12

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 friendship that this people seek with strangers and idolaters.

(o) Meaning, that they should not fear the thing that they who have no hope in God feared.

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See also Isaiah 8:12 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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,...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    8:12 Conspiracy, (d-5) Conspiracy; (d-13) Or 'Confederacy,' as 2 Kings 11:14 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לֹא ־תֹאמְר֣וּן קֶ֔שֶׁר לְ כֹ֧ל אֲשֶׁר ־יֹאמַ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

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

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Conspiracy. In despair, they wish to submit to the enemy, ver. 6. Isaias exhorts them to have recourse rather to the Lord. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • 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

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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 -...

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

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A REBUKE AND AN EXHORTATION...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 8:12 say H559 (H8799) conspiracy H7195 people H5971 call H559 (H8799) conspiracy H7195 afraid H3372 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    CONFEDERACY The reference is to the attempt to terrify Judah by the confederacy between Syria and Samaria. (Isaiah 7:1); (Isaiah 7:2)....

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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._...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Peter 3:14; 1 Peter 3:15; 2 Kings 16:5; Isaiah 51:12; Isaiah 51:13

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Say not — Thou Isaiah, and my children, do not consent to this confederacy with the king of Assyria. Their fear — That thing which they fear, that, if they do not call in the Assyrian succours, they s...

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