Isaiah 7:20

In that day, will My Lord shave, with a hired razor, even with them of the lands over the River Euphrates, with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet,—yea, even the beard, will it sweep off.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.

In Context

19And they shall all of them come and settle down—In the desolate torrent-valleys, And in the rents of the crags,—And on all the thorn-bushes, And on all the pastures,

21And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall keep alive a young cow and two sheep.

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Cross References

2 Kings 16:7So Ahaz sent messengers unto Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, Thy servant and thy son, I am,—Come up and save me, out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who are rising up against me.

2 Chronicles 28:20And Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, came against him,—and distressed him, but strengthened him not.

Isaiah 8:7now therefore, lo! the Lord is about to bring up against them the waters, strong and many, of the River [="Euphrates"], even the king of Assyria and all his glory,—and he shall rise over all his channels, and flow over all his banks;

Isaiah 9:14Therefore hath Yahweh cut off from Israel—Head and tail Palm-top and rush, In one day.

Isaiah 10:15Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? Or, the saw, magnify itself, against him that wieldeth it? As if a rod, could wield, them who lift it up! As if a staff, could raise, what is, not wood!

Isaiah 24:1Lo! Yahweh emptying the earth and laying it waste,—And he will overturn the face thereof, And scatter them who dwell therein.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 7:18-25

Judgments Announced. ( b. c. 740.) 17 The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria. 18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. 19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all… Read the whole commentary →

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