Isaiah 8:4
For before the boy shall have knowledge to cry, My father! and, My mother! the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be carried away before the king of Assyria.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
5And again Yahweh spake unto me yet further saying:
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:39And your little ones, of whom ye said they should become, a prey, and your sons who to-day know not good and evil, they, shall enter in thither,—and unto them, will I give it, and they, shall possess it.
2 Kings 16:9So the king of Assyria hearkened unto him, and the king of Assyria came up unto Damascus, and seized it, and carried away the people thereof captive to Kir,—and put Rezin, to death.
2 Kings 17:5And the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land,—yea he came up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
Isaiah 7:8For, though the head of Syria is Damascus, And, the head of Damascus, is Rezin, Yet within threescore and five years more, shall Ephraim be broken that it shall not be a people;
Isaiah 7:16for before the boy knoweth to refuse the bad and choose the good, forsaken shall be the land, at which, thou, art alarmed, of the presence of both her kings.
Isaiah 17:1The oracle on Damascus,—Lo! Damascus, is to be removed from being a city, And shall become a heap of ruins:
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 →