CHAPTER VII _The king of Judah and the royal family being in the utmost_ _consternation on receiving accounts of the invasion of the_ _kings of Syria and Israel, the prophet is sent to assure them_ _that God would make good his promises to David and his house;_ _so that, although they might be_... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 7:3. _NOW_] נא _na_, is omitted by _two_ MSS., the _Septuagint, Syriac, Arabic_, and _Vulgate_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 7:4. The _Syriac_ omits וארם _vearam_, "and Syria;" the Vulgate reads מלך ארם _melech aram_, "king of Syria:" one or the other seems to be the true reading. I prefer the former: or, instead of וארם ובן _vearam uben_, read ופקח בן _vepekach ben,_ _and pekah son_, MS.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 7:5. _BECAUSE - REMALIAH_] All these words are omitted by one MS. and the _Syriac_; a part of them also by the _Septuagint_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 7:8. _FOR THE HEAD OF SYRIA, C._] "Though the head of Syria be Damascus, And the head of Damascus Retsin Yet within _threescore_ and _five_ years Ephraim shall be broken, that he be no more a people: And the head of Ephraim be Samaria; And the head of Samaria Remaliah's son. "He... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 7:9. Isaiah 7:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 7:11. _IN THE DEPTH _- "Go deep to the grave"] So _Aquila,_ _Symmachus, Theodotion_, and the _Vulgate_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 7:14. _THE LORD _- "JEHOVAH"] For אדני _Adonai, twenty-five_ of _Kennicott's_ MSS., _nine_ ancient, and _fourteen_ of _De Rossi's_, read יהוה _Jehovah_. And so Isaiah 7:20, _eighteen_ MSS. _IMMANUEL._] For עמנואל _Immanuel_, many MSS. and editions have עמנו אל _immanu El_, God with us.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 7:15. _THAT HE MAY KNOW_ - "When he shall know"] "Though so much has been written on this important passage, there is an obscurity and inconsequence which still attends it, in the general run of all the interpretations given to it by the most learned. And this obscure incoherence is gi... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 7:17. _THE LORD SHALL BRING _- "But JEHOVAH will bring"] _Houbigant_ reads וביא _vaiyabi_, from the _Septuagint_, αλλα επαξει ὁ Θεος, to mark the transition to a new subject. EVEN THE _KING OF ASSYRIA._] _Houbigant_ supposes these words to have been a marginal gloss, brought into the... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 7:18. _HISS FOR THE FLY_ - "Hist the fly"] Isaiah 5:26. _EGYPT, AND - ASSYRIA._] Sennacherib, Esarhaddon, Pharaoh-necho, and Nebuchadnezzar, who one after another desolated Judea.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 7:19. _HOLES OF THE ROCKS _- "Caverns"] So the _Septuagint,_ _Syriac_, and _Vulgate_, whence _Houbigant_ supposes the true reading to be הנחללים _hannachalolim_. One of my oldest MSS. reads הנחלולים _hannochalolim_.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Isaiah 7:20. _THE RIVER_] That is, the Euphrates: הנהר _hanahar_. So read the _Septuagint_ and two MSS. _SHALL THE LORD SHAVE WITH A RAZOR THAT IS HIRED_ - "JEHOVAH shall shave by the hired razor"] To shave with the hired razor the head, the feet, and the beard, is an expression highly parab... [ Continue Reading ]