Isaiah 8:4
For before the child knows how to say, ‘My father’ and ‘My mother,’ the riches of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried away by the king of Assyria.”
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5The LORD spoke to me yet again, saying,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:39Moreover your little ones, whom you said would be captured or killed, your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, shall go in there. I will give it to them, and they shall possess it.
2 Kings 16:9The king of Assyria listened to him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus and took it, and carried its people captive to Kir, and killed Rezin.
2 Kings 17:5Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
Isaiah 7:8For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people.
Isaiah 7:16For before the child knows to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.
Isaiah 17:1The burden of Damascus. “Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.
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 →