Isaiah 8:4
for before the youth knows to cry, My father, and, My mother, one takes away the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria, before the king of Asshur.”
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In Context
5And YHWH adds to speak to me again, saying,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:39And your infants, of whom you have said, They are for a prey, and your sons who today have not known good and evil, they go in there, and I give it to them, and they possess it;
2 Kings 16:9And the king of Asshur listens to him, and the king of Asshur goes up to Damascus, and seizes it, and removes [the people of] it to Kir, and he has put Rezin to death.
2 Kings 17:5And the king of Asshur goes up into all the land, and he goes up to Samaria, and lays siege against it [for] three years;
Isaiah 7:8For the head of Aram [is] Damascus, || And the head of Damascus [is] Rezin, || And within sixty-five years || Is Ephraim broken from [being] a people.
Isaiah 7:16For before the youth knows || To refuse evil, and to fix on good, || The land you are distressed with is forsaken, because of her two kings.
Isaiah 17:1The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from [being] a city, || And it has been a heap—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 →