What does Isaiah 8:20 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word,d it is because there is no light in them."
Verse Isaiah 8:20. _TO THE LAW AND TO THE TESTIMONY_ - "Unto the command, and unto the testimony."] "Is not תעודה _teudah_ here the attested prophecy, Isaiah 8:1? and perhaps תורה _torah_ the command...
TO THE LAW ... - To the revelation which God has given. This is a solemn call of the prophet to try everything by the revealed will of God; see Isaiah 8:16. IF THEY SPEAK NOT - If the necromancers -...
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...
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...
THERE IS NO LIGHT IN THEM. there shall be no morning for them. All are in darkness who do not speak by and appeal to the revealed Word of God....
Religion and superstition contrasted....
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...
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...
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. TO THE LAW AND TO THE TESTIMONY - To the revelation of God by His prophet (Isaia...
8:20 them (g-16) Or 'for him,' i.e. for the people. Some read 'this word, it is because in it.'...
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...
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 sent...
TO THE LAW AND TO THE TESTIMONY. — The words are only remotely and by analogy an exhortation to the study of Scripture in general, or even to that of the Law of Moses in particular. “The law and the t...
לְ תֹורָ֖ה וְ לִ תְעוּדָ֑ה אִם ־לֹ֤א יֹֽאמְרוּ֙ כַּ † דָּבָ֣ר הַ זֶּ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר א
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...
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 Media...
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...
To the (y) law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, [it is] because [there is] no (z) light in them. (y) Seek remedy in the word of God, where his will is declared. (z) Th...
_Law. Sealed, (ver. 16.) or to the law of Moses, Ecclesiasticus xxxiv. 28. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "why do they consult the dead concerning the living? For he gave the law to assist us." (Haydock) --...
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...
20._To the law and testimony. _There are indeed various ways of explaining this passage. Some think that it is the form of an oath, as if the Prophet were swearing _by the law _that they were apostate...
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...
TO THE LAW, AND TO THE TESTIMONY,.... Kimchi takes this to be an oath, "by the law, and by the testimony", it is so and so; but Aben Ezra observes there is no instance of this kind in Scripture; it is...
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, [it is] because [there is] no light in them. Ver. 20. _To the law and to the testimonies._] Lo, this is the way, walk in it,...
_To the law and to the testimony_ Let this dispute between you and them be determined by God's word, which is here, and in many other places, called _the law_, to signify their obligation to believe a...
WARNING AGAINST FALSE TESTIMONY...
NO LIGHT: _ Heb._ no morning...
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...
TO THE LAW AND TO THE TESTIMONY; let this dispute between you and them be determined by God's word, which is here and in many other places called THE LAW, to signify their obligation to believe and ob...
Isaiah 8:20 law H8451 testimony H8584 speak H559 (H8799) word H1697 light H7837 the law - Isaiah 8:16; Luke 10:26, Luke 16:29-31; John 5:39, John 5:46-47; Acts 17:11;...
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...
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...
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. Isai...
_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...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 8:16 The difference between the remnant (vv. Isaiah 8:16) and the hardened nation (vv. Isaiah 8:19) becomes clear. God marks his own as loyal disciples who preserve the TESTIMONY...
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...
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...
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...
2 Peter 1:19; 2 Peter 1:9; 2 Timothy 3:15; Acts 17:11; Galatians 3:8; Galatians 4:21; Galatians 4:22; Hosea 6:3; Isaiah 30:8; Isaiah 8:16;...
To the law — Let this dispute between you and them be determined by God's word, which is here and in many other places called the law, to signify their obligation to believe and obey it; and the testi...