Isaiah 8:1
And the Lord said to me: “Take up for yourself a large book, and with a man’s pen write in it: ‘Take away the spoils quickly; plunder swiftly.’”
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2And I summoned to myself faithful witnesses: Uriah, the priest, and Zechariah, the son of Berechiah.
Cross References
Isaiah 8:3And I joined with the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. And the Lord said to me: “Call his name: ‘Rush to take away the spoils; Hurry to be plundered.’
Jeremiah 30:2“Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, saying: You shall write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you.
Jeremiah 36:28“Again, take another volume and write in it all the former words, which were in the first volume that Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, has burned.
Habakkuk 2:2And the Lord responded to me and said: Write the vision and explain it on tablets, so that he who reads it may run through it.
Revelation 21:17And he measured its wall as one hundred and forty-four cubits, the measure of a man, which 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 →