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Verse Isaiah 8:21. _HARDLY BESTEAD_ - "Distressed"] Instead of
נקשה _niksheh,_ _distressed_, the _Vulgate, Chaldee_, and
_Symmachus_ manifestly read נכשל _nichshal, stumbling, tottering
through weakne...
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AND THEY SHALL PASS - The people who have been consulting
necromancers. This represents the condition of these who have sought
for counsel and direction, and who have not found it. They shall be
consc...
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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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THEY: i.e. they who live not in the light of God's Word.
IT: i.e. Immanuel's land. The singular number and same verb, referring
back to Isaiah 8:8.
HARDLY BESTEAD. in hard case.
FRET THEMSELVES. Com...
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_they shall pass through it_ Obviously, the land; but something must
have fallen out before this verse, to account for the reference of the
pronoun. Throughout this and the following verse, "they," "t...
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Another scene, representing the utter desolation of the land, and the
miseries of the survivors....
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AND THEY SHALL PASS THROUGH IT— The attentive reader must observe,
that the 21st verse is connected with the last clause of the preceding
one; _no light, no morning to them._ The prophet had here deno...
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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.
17
And I will wait for Jehovah, that hideth his face from the house of
Jacob, and...
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And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it
shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret
themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward....
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8:21 it, (h-6) i.e. 'the land.'...
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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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Ahaz failed the test. So now his people are prisoners of a powerful
enemy in a foreign country. Because they have left God out of their
situation, their future is completely without hope. It is as if...
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AND THEY SHALL PASS THROUGH IT... — _i.e.,_ through the land over
which hangs the sunless gloom. The abruptness with which the verse
opens, the absence of any noun to which the pronoun “it” may
refer,...
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וְ עָ֥בַר בָּ֖הּ נִקְשֶׁ֣ה וְ רָעֵ֑ב
וְ
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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 they shall pass through it, distressed and hungry: and it shall
come to (a) pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret
themselves, (b) and curse their king and their God, and look upwar...
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_By it. The word of God. (Haydock) --- God. Elohim means also princes
or idols. (Calmet) --- Whether they seek God unwillingly, or the aid
of men, (ver. 22.) they shall perish. (Worthington)_...
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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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21._Then they shall pass through that land. _Not to permit believers
to be ensnared by the common errors, he adds how dreadful is the
punishment which awaits the ungodly when they have revolted from G...
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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 THEY SHALL PASS THROUGH IT,.... The land, as the Targum and Kimchi
supply it; that is, the land of Judea, as Aben Ezra interprets it.
Here begins an account of the punishment that should be inflic...
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And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it
shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret
themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward....
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_And they_ The idolatrous and apostate Israelites; _shall pass through
it_ Namely, their own land, into captivity; or, as עבר בה may be
rendered, _shall pass to and fro_, or _wander hither and thither...
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And they, the unbelievers, shall pass through it, walking about in the
land, HARDLY BESTEAD, oppressed both from within and without, AND
HUNGRY, in the very depths of misery; AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS...
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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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AND THEY, the idolatrous and apostatical Israelites, SHALL PASS
THROUGH IT, or, _in it_, to wit, their own land, which is easily
understood out of the context, and from the phrase itself; the pronoun...
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Isaiah 8:21 pass H5674 (H8804) pressed H7185 (H8737) hungry H7457
hungry H7456 (H8799) enraged H7107 ...
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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 they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry_
UNSANCTIFIED SUFFERING
I. SIN LEADS TO SUFFERING.
II. THERE IS IN SUFFERING NO SANCTIFYING POWER. It may harden men in
iniquity.
III. SUF...
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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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UNSANCTIFIED SUFFERING
Isaiah 8:21, and Isaiah 9:13. _And they shall pass through it, &c._
I. SIN LEADS TO SUFFERING.
1. This is true of _individuals_ (H. E. I. 4603–4612). But because
there is anot...
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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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2 Kings 25:3; 2 Kings 6:33; Deuteronomy 28:33; Deuteronomy 28:34;...
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It — Their own land. Hungry — Sorely distressed, and destitute of
food, and all necessaries. Their king — Either because he doth not
relieve them; or because by his foolish counsels, he brought them i...