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AND I TOOK UNTO ME FAITHFUL WITNESSES - What was the precise object in
calling in these witnesses is not known. Some have supposed that it
was to bear testimony to the marriage of the prophet at that...
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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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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....
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URIAH. Urijah. See 2 Kings 16:10.
ZECHARIAH. Probably the father-in-law of Ahaz (2 Kings 18:2)....
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The twofold sign of Maher-shalal-hash-baz....
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_And I took_ The Hebr. pointing gives AND I WILL TAKE (as in R.V.).
The speaker is still Jehovah. The LXX. and other old versions have the
imperative ("and take for me") which, as addressed to the pro...
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AND I TOOK UNTO ME FAITHFUL WITNESSES TO RECORD— These _witnesses_
were called in to sign the instrument or writing wherein Isaiah,
according to God's command, was to write the name mentioned in the
p...
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CHAPTER EIGHT
B. PREVISION OF IMMANUEL
1.
THE PROPHECY Isaiah 8:1-8
TEXT: Isaiah 8:1-8
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And Jehovah said unto me, Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it
with the pen of a man, For Maher-shal...
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And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest,
and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
I TOOK UNTO ME FAITHFUL WITNESSES TO RECORD - `The Lord said to me
that I should take,' etc....
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8:2 took (h-3) Others have 'let me take,' or 'I will take.'...
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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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There was a law about ‘witnesses’, see Deuteronomy 19:15....
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AND I TOOK UNTO ME FAITHFUL WITNESSES. — That the prophet’s
challenge to his gainsayers might be made more emphatic, the
setting-up of the tablet is to be formally attested. And the witnesses
whom the...
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וְ אָעִ֣ידָה לִּ֔י עֵדִ֖ים
נֶאֱמָנִ֑ים אֵ֚ת א
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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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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...
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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 I took to me (c) faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest,
and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
(c) Because the thing was of great importance, he took these two
witnesses, who were of cred...
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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...
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2._And I took into me witnesses. _The noun עדים, (_gnedim_,) and
the verb אעיד, (_agnid_,) which the Prophet employs, are derived
from the same root, and the allusion is elegant, as if we were to say,...
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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 I TOOK UNTO ME FAITHFUL WITNESSES TO RECORD,.... Not his marriage,
nor the birth of his son, nor the name he gave him, but the prophecy
written in the roll, concerning the spoiling of Syria and Is...
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And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and
Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
Ver. 2. _And I took unto me faithful witnesses._] So they might be,
and yet not godly men; as...
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_And I took me faithful witnesses_ Persons of unquestionable
reputation, who should bear witness that the following name and
prophecy were written and published by me, according to God's command.
It i...
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And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, the Lord Himself
choosing them through the prophet to be present and to testify to
Isaiah's preparing the tablet, URIAH, THE PRIEST, 2 Kings 16:10, AND...
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A DOUBLE PROPHETIC SIGN...
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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...
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Persons of unquestionable reputation, who should bear witness that the
following name and prophecy was written and published by me, according
to God's command....
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Isaiah 8:2 take H5749 faithful H539 (H8737) witnesses H5707 record
H5749 (H8686) Uriah H223 priest H3548 Zechariah...
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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...
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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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_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...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 8:1 Through Isaiah’s son, God provides a
witness to his promise of deliverance of Judah from the coalition of
Syria and Israel.
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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...
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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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2 Corinthians 13:1; 2 Kings 16:10; 2 Kings 16:11; 2 Kings 18:2; R