Isaiah 8:1
And YHWH says to me, “Take a great tablet to yourself, and write on it with an engraving tool of man, || To hurry spoil, enjoy prey.”
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2And I cause faithful witnesses to testify to me, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah.
Cross References
Isaiah 8:3And I draw near to the prophetess, and she conceives, and bears a son; and YHWH says to me, “Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz,
Jeremiah 30:2“Thus spoke YHWH, God of Israel, saying, Write for yourself all the words that I have spoken to you on a scroll.
Jeremiah 36:28“Turn, take another scroll to yourself, and write on it all the former words that were on the first scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah burned,
Habakkuk 2:2And YHWH answers me and says: “Write a vision, and explain on the tablets, || That he may run who is reading it.
Revelation 21:17And he measured its wall—one hundred forty-four cubits, the measure of a man, that is, of the messenger;
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 →