Isaiah 8:5

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹Then the LORD said to me, "Take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary stylus: Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz. ²And I will appoint for myself trustworthy witnesses-Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah." ³And I had relations with the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. The LORD said to me, "Name him Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz. ⁴For before the boy knows how to cry 'Father' or 'Mother,' the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off to the king of Assyria." ⁵And the LORD spoke to me further:⁶"Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoiced in Rezin and the son of Remaliah, ⁷the Lord will surely bring against them the mighty rushing waters of the Euphrates-the king of Assyria and all his pomp. It will overflow its channels and run over all its banks. ⁸It will pour into Judah, swirling and sweeping over it, reaching up to the neck; its spreading streams will cover your entire land, O Immanuel!

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am 3263. bc 741.

spake: Isaiah 7:10

Cross-References

Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Lord spake also unto me again,.... In the same prophecy, or in another; the Targum is,

"the Word of the Lord added to speak with me again;''

but rather Jehovah the Father, or the Spirit of the Lord, is meant, since the Person speaking is distinguished from Immanuel, Isaiah 8:8:

saying; as follows: