Isaiah 7:16
For before the na'ar (boy) shall understand to refuse the rah, and choose the tov, the adamah (land) will be desolate, of whose two melachim thou art afraid.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
15Curds and honey shall he eat at the time that he knows to refuse the rah, and choose the tov.
Cross References
2 Kings 15:29In the days of Pekach Melech Yisroel came Tiglat Pileser Melech Ashur (Assyria), and took Iyon, and Abel Beit-Ma'achah, and Yanoach, and Kedesh, and Chatzor, and Gil'ad, and the Galil, all the Eretz Naphtali, and carried them away into the Golus of Assyria.
2 Kings 16:9And Melech of Ashur (Assyria) paid heed unto him; for Melech Ashur (Assyria) went up against Damascus, and captured it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slaughtered Retzin.
Isaiah 9:11The Syrians from the east, and the Pelishtim from the west; 1 and they shall devour Yisroel with open mouth. 1 For all this His anger is not turned away, 1 but His yad is upraised still. 1
Hosea 5:9Ephrayim shall be desolate in the Yom Tokheichah (Day of Rebuke): 1 among the Shivtei Yisroel have I made known that which is certain. 1
Jonah 4:11And should not I spare Nineveh, that ir hagedolah, wherein are more then sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their yamin (right hand) and their semol (left hand); and also much cattle?
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 7:11-17
The Promise of Immanuel. ( b. c. 740.) 10 Moreover the Lord spake again unto Ahaz, saying, 11 Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. 12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord . 13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also? 14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. 15 Butter and… Read the whole commentary →