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**Moreover.** There is no break in the prophecy.
**roll** = tablet. Elsewhere only in [Isaiah 3:23](../../../kjv/isaiah/3/23) .
**in it** = on it.
**a man's pen** = the carving tool of the people. The writing was to be legible, in the language of the common people (not in the language of the priests or educated classes). Eastern languages have these two, down to the present day. Compare [Habakkuk 2:2](../../../kjv/habakkuk/2/2) . "Pen" is put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* , for the writing written by it.
**man's** = a common man's. Hebrew. *'enosh.* concerning = "for Maher, &c. "
**Maher-shalal-hash-baz** = haste, spoil, speed, prey. (Note the *Alternation* .) These words are explained in [Isaiah 8:4](../../../kjv/isaiah/8/4) , and may be connected thus: he hasteneth [to take the] spoil, he speeds [to seize] the prey. This child was a sign, as also the child in [Isaiah 7:14](../../../kjv/isaiah/7/14) .

**Uriah** = Urijah. See [2 Kings 16:10](../../../kjv/2-kings/16/10) .
**Zechariah.** Probably the father-in-law of Ahaz ([2 Kings 18:2](../../../kjv/2-kings/18/2) ).

**before.** The interval was twenty-one months from the prophecy, twelve from the birth.
**child** = sucking child: as in [Isaiah 7:16](../../../kjv/isaiah/7/16) . Not the same word as in [Isaiah 8:18](../../../kjv/isaiah/8/18)
**shall be taken.** So it was: in the third year of Ahaz, Damascus was sacked and Rezin was slain.
**taken** = carried away.

**again.** See note on [Isaiah 7:10](../../../kjv/isaiah/7/10) .

**Shiloah:** i.e. the waters beneath Zion running from Gihon to Siloam. See App-68 .
**rejoice in Kezin.** This is not "a wrong reading of the Hebrew text", hut it refers to the trust reposed in the king of Syria instead of in Jehovah ([Isaiah 7:9](../../../kjv/isaiah/7/9) ). They despised God's covenant with Zion (symbolized by its secret stream), and preferred the help of the heathen; therefore the Assyrian floods should overwhelm them. (Compare the same contrast in [Psalms 46:3](../../../kjv/psalms/46/3) , Psa 46:45 ; and see notes there.) This applied specially to Israel: and the judgment overtook Israel first.

**channels.** Hebrew. *'aphiklm.* See note on [1 Samuel 22:16](../../../kjv/1-samuel/22/16) .

**his wings.** Probably referring to the wings of his army.
**Irnmanuel** = GOD with us. This shows that the prophecy in [Isaiah 7:14](../../../kjv/isaiah/7/14) was not to be exhausted with Ahaz and his times.

**Associate yourselves** = Make friendships.
**people** = nations.
**gird yourselves.** Note the Figure of speech *Repetitio* for emphasis. Occurs in "former" portion here only, and in the "latter" portion only in [Isaiah 45:5](../../../kjv/isaiah/45/5) with [Isaiah 50:11](../../../kjv/isaiah/50/11) . App-79 .

**GOD is with us** = Hebrew. *lmmanu-El.* See [Isaiah 8:8](../../../kjv/isaiah/8/8) . App-4 .

**confederacy.** Hebrew. *kesher.* Never used in a good sense.
**to all them to whom** = whensoever, or whereof.
**neither, &c.** Quoted in [1 Peter 3:14](../../../kjv/1-peter/3/14) , [1 Peter 3:15](../../../kjv/1-peter/3/15) .
**their fear** = what they fear, or with their fear.

**Sanctify** = Hallow, regard as holy. Compare [Isaiah 29:23](../../../kjv/isaiah/29/23) . See note on [Exodus 3:5](../../../kjv/exodus/3/5) . Reference to Pentateuch ([Numbers 20:12](../../../kjv/numbers/20/12) ; [Numbers 27:14](../../../kjv/numbers/27/14) ).
**the LORD of hosts.** See note on [Isaiah 1:9](../../../kjv/isaiah/1/9) and [1 Samuel 1:9](../../../kjv/1-samuel/1/9) .
**be your dread** = inspire you with awe. Quoted in [1 Peter 3:13-15](../../../kjv/1-peter/3/13-15) .

**for a stone of stumbling.** Compare [1 Peter 2:7](../../../kjv/1-peter/2/7) , [1 Peter 2:8](../../../kjv/1-peter/2/8) . [Luke 20:17](../../../kjv/luke/20/17) . [Romans 9:32](../../../kjv/romans/9/32) , [Romans 9:33](../../../kjv/romans/9/33) ; [Romans 11:11](../../../kjv/romans/11/11) .
**gin** = a trap.

**stumble. fall, &c.** Note the Figure of speech *Synomymia.*

**testimony. law.** No Art. either here or in [Isaiah 8:20](../../../kjv/isaiah/8/20) . Note the Structure, above, and the *Introversion* of these two words. See note on [Isaiah 1:10](../../../kjv/isaiah/1/10) .
**disciples** = instructed ones.

**wait.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Genesis 49:18](../../../kjv/genesis/49/18) ).
**the house of Jacob.** See note on [Isaiah 2:5](../../../kjv/isaiah/2/5) .
**and I will look, &c.** See [Hebrews 2:13](../../../kjv/hebrews/2/13) .

**children** = young children. Not the same word as in [Isaiah 8:4](../../../kjv/isaiah/8/4) .
**signs and for wonders.** Compare [Isaiah 20:3](../../../kjv/isaiah/20/3) . Reference to Pentateuch [Exodus 7:3](../../../kjv/exodus/7/3) .[Deuteronomy 4:34](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/4/34) ; [Deuteronomy 6:22](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/6/22) .
**dwelleth** = is making His dwelling, or is about to dwell.

**when** = should.
**familiar spirits.** See note on [Leviticus 19:31](../../../kjv/leviticus/19/31) .
**peep.** Hebrew. *zaphaph* . Occurs only in Isaiah; and this form, only in [Isaiah 10:14](../../../kjv/isaiah/10/14) , elsewhere, in [Isaiah 29:4](../../../kjv/isaiah/29/4) (whisper); [Isaiah 38:14](../../../kjv/isaiah/38/14) (chatter). It is used of an unearthly sound.
**mutter:** i, e. with indistinct sounds. This refers to the low incantations which, in the Babylonian and Egyptian "mysteries", had to be recited in a whisper (like certain parts of the Roman Missal). A whole series is called "the ritual of the whispered charm".
**God.** Hebrew. *Elohim.* App-4 .
**for the living to the dead.** Supply the Figure of speech *Ellipsis* from the preceding clause ( App-6 ), and render: "Should not any People seek unto its God? for [should] the living [seek unto] the dead? "This is a solemn warning against all ancient and modern Spiritists.

**there is no light in them** = there shall be no morning for them. All are in darkness who do not speak by and appeal to the revealed Word of God.

**they:** i.e. they who live not in the light of God's Word.
**it:** i.e. Immanuel's land. The singular number and same verb, referring back to [Isaiah 8:8](../../../kjv/isaiah/8/8) .
**hardly bestead** = in hard case.
**fret themselves.** Compare. [Revelation 16:11](../../../kjv/revelation/16/11) , [Revelation 16:21](../../../kjv/revelation/16/21) .
**look upward:** [in vain].

**the earth** = the land.
**dimness of anguish** = the gloom of anguish.
**driven to** = thrust out into.

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