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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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);...
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_And when they_(the infatuated, God-forsaken people) _shall say unto
you_(believers in divine revelation).
_them that have familiar spirits_ Hebr. simply _hâ"ôbhôth_.
Strictly, the _"ôbh_is the "famil...
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Religion and superstition contrasted....
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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...
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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...
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THE PEDAGOGY Isaiah 8:16-22
TEXT: Isaiah 8:16-22
16
Bind thou up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
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And I will wait for Jehovah, that hideth his face from the house of
Jacob, and...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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וְ כִֽי ־יֹאמְר֣וּ אֲלֵיכֶ֗ם
דִּרְשׁ֤וּ אֶל ־
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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....
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_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...
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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...
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WARNING AGAINST FALSE TESTIMONY...
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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...
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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...
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Isaiah 8:19 say H559 (H8799) Seek H1875 (H8798) mediums H178 wizards
H3049 whisper H6850 (H8772) mutter...
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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...
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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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_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...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 8:16 The difference between the remnant (vv.
Isaiah 8:16) and the hardened nation (vv. Isaiah 8:19)
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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...
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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 Chronicles 10:13; 1 Samuel 28:16; 1 Samuel 28:8; 1 Thessalonians
1:9;...
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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...