Isaiah 8:1
And Jehovah said to me, Take thee a great tablet, and write thereon with a man's style, concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
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Isaiah 8:3And I came near to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son; and Jehovah said unto me, Call his name, Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
Jeremiah 30:2Thus speaketh Jehovah the God of Israel, saying, Write thee in a book all the words that I have spoken unto thee.
Jeremiah 36:28Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.
Habakkuk 2:2And Jehovah answered me and said, Write the vision, and engrave it upon tablets, that he may run that readeth it.
Revelation 21:17And he measured its wall, a hundred [and] forty-four cubits, [a] man's measure, that is, [the] angel's.
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 →