Isaiah 8:4
For before the child shall know how to call his father or his mother, one shall take the power of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria before the king of the Assyrians.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
5And the Lord spoke to me yet again, saying,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:39And every young child who this day knows not good or evil,—they shall enter therein, and to them I will give it, and they shall inherit it.
2 Kings 16:9And the king of the Assyrians hearkened to him: and the king of the Assyrians went up to Damascus and took it, and removed + 16:9 Gr. it.the inhabitants, and slew king Raasson.
2 Kings 17:5And the king of the Assyrians went up + 17:5 Or, through.against all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.
Isaiah 7:8But the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus, Rasim; and yet within sixty and five years the kingdom of Ephraim shall cease from being a people.
Isaiah 7:16For before the child shall know good or evil, he refuses evil, to choose the good; and the land shall be forsaken which thou art afraid of because of the two kings.
Isaiah 17:1The Word against Damascus. Behold, Damascus shall be taken away from among cities, and shall become a ruin;
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 8:2-9
Judgments Announced. ( b. c. 740.) 1 Moreover the Lord said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz. 2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah. 3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the Lord to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz. 4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of… Read the whole commentary →