Isaiah 8:1
Moreover, the LORD said to me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
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Isaiah 8:3And I went to the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
Jeremiah 30:2Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write for thee all the words that I have spoken to thee in a book.
Jeremiah 36:28Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah hath burned.
Habakkuk 2:2And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
Revelation 21:17And he measured the wall of it a hundred and forty four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 8:1
This chapter, and the four next that follow it (to chap. xiii.) are all one continued discourse or sermon, the scope of which is to show the great destruction that should now shortly be brought upon the kingdom of Israel, and the great disturbance that should be given to the kingdom of Judah by the king of Assyria, and that both were for their sins; but rich provision is made of comfort for those that feared God in those dark times, referring especially to the days of the Messiah. In this chapter we have, I. A… Read the whole commentary →