Isaiah 8:1
And the Lord said to me, Take a great writing-board, and on it put down in common letters, Maher-shalal-hash-baz;
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2And take true witnesses to the writing, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah, the son of Jeberechiah.
Cross References
Isaiah 8:3And I went in to my wife, and she became with child, and gave birth to a son. Then the Lord said to me, Give him the name Maher-shalal-hash-baz,
Jeremiah 30:2The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Put down in a book all the words which I have said to you.
Jeremiah 36:28Take another book and put down in it all the words which were in the first book, which Jehoiakim, king of Judah, put into the fire.
Habakkuk 2:2And the Lord gave me an answer, and said, Put the vision in writing and make it clear on stones, so that the reader may go quickly.
Revelation 21:17And he took the measure of its wall, one hundred and forty-four cubits, after the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 8:1
This chapter, and the four next that follow it (to chap. xiii.) are all one continued discourse or sermon, the scope of which is to show the great destruction that should now shortly be brought upon the kingdom of Israel, and the great disturbance that should be given to the kingdom of Judah by the king of Assyria, and that both were for their sins; but rich provision is made of comfort for those that feared God in those dark times, referring especially to the days of the Messiah. In this chapter we have, I. A… Read the whole commentary →