Isaiah 8:4
For before the na'ar shall have da'as to cry, Avi, or Immi, the chayil Damascus and the spoil of Shomron shall be carried off before Melech Ashur.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
5Hashem spoke also unto me again, saying, 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:39Moreover your little ones, which ye said would be taken captive, and your children, which as yet do not have knowledge between tov and rah, they shall go in there, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
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.
2 Kings 17:5Then Melech Ashur came up throughout kol HaAretz, and went up to Shomron, and besieged it shalosh shanim.
Isaiah 7:8For the rosh of Aram (Syria) is Damascus, 1 and the rosh of Damascus is Retzin; 1 and within threescore and five shanah 1 shall Ephrayim be broken, that it be not a people. 1
Isaiah 7:16For 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.
Isaiah 17:1The massa (burden) of Damascus: 1 Hinei, Damascus is taken away from being a city, 1 and it shall be a heap of ruins. 1
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 →