Isaiah 8:1
Then the Lord told me, “Get a large tablet and write on it in with an ordinary pen, ‘Maher-shalal-hash-baz.’
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2I will need Uriah the priest and Zechariah, son of Jeberekiah, to be my trustworthy witnesses.”
Cross References
Isaiah 8:3Then I slept with my wife the prophetess, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. The Lord told me, “Call him Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
Jeremiah 30:2This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Write down in a book everything I've told you.
Jeremiah 36:28Get another scroll and write everything out that was on the first scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah burned.
Habakkuk 2:2Then the Lord told me, Write down the vision, inscribe it on tablets, so it can be easily read.
Revelation 21:17He measured the wall and it was 144 cubits thick in human measurements that the angel was using.
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 →