Isaiah 8:1 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.a ”

Isaiah 8:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Take thee a great roll - The word which is here translated ‘roll’ more properly signifies tablet. So the Chaldee renders it. Those tablets were made of wood, metal, or stone, for the purpose of w...
Isaiah 8:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Moreover the LORD said to me, Take thee a (a) great roll, and write in it (b) with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz. (a) That you may write in great letters to the intent that it may be mor...
Isaiah 8:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Sign of Maher-shalal-hash-baz. The date of the incidents is some time before the fall of Damascus in 732 B.C. The writing of the tablet may be as early as 735 B.C., the birth of the child as 73...
Isaiah 8:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Moreover. There is no break in the prophecy. roll . tablet. Elsewhere only in 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...
Isaiah 8:1 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1. And Jehovah said to me. (117) This prophecy contains nothing new, but is a confirmation of the preceding one, in which Isaiah predicted the approaching desolation of the kingdom of Israe...
Isaiah 8:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz. Take thee a great roll "Take unto thee a large mirror" - The word גליון gillayo...
Isaiah 8:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Moreover, the Lord said— The other section of this discourse, which reaches to the 7th verse of the next chapter, is nearly of the same argument with that preceding: it is prophetical, and contains...
Isaiah 8:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Maher-shalal-hashbaz. Isaiah 8:1-22 and Isaiah 9:7 . The first seven verses of Isaiah 9:...
Isaiah 8:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. Take, etc.] read 'Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it with the pen of a man, Maher-shalal-hash-baz.' A man's pen ] i.e. such as a common man would use for writing in large characters th...
Isaiah 8:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

VIII. (1) Moreover the Lord said unto me... — The prophecy that follows was clearly separated by an interval of some kind, probably about a year, from that in Isaiah 7 . In the meantime much th...
Isaiah 8:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER VI KING AND MESSIAH; PEOPLE AND CHURCH 735-732 B.C. Isaiah 7:8 , 9: Isaiah 7:1-8 THIS section of the book of Isaiah (Chapter s 7-9:7) consists of a number of separate prophecies utter...
Isaiah 8:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

a Foreign Foe-God's Instrument Isaiah 7:18-25 ; Isaiah 8:1-4 Ahaz, as we have seen, summoned the king of Assyria to his aid. This policy, dictated by human prudence, was fraught with vast peri...
Isaiah 8:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In this section we have the account of how the prophet turns from his more public ministry to devote himself to a small circle of believing souls. This departure was signalized by his writing on a ta...
Isaiah 8:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

CONTENTS The prophet is in this chapter opening a subject, concerning the future troubles of Israel and Judah, by reason of their sins, and in a spirit of prophecy pointing out the destruction of bo...
Isaiah 8:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Moreover the Lord said unto me ,.... This is another prophecy, confirming the same thing that was promised in the preceding chapter Isaiah 7:1 ; namely, safety to the Jews from the two kings of Syr...
Isaiah 8:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz. Ver. 1. Take thee a great roll. ] Or, Volume; so called either because it wa...
Isaiah 8:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Moreover, the Lord said unto me Here begins “the second section of this discourse, which reaches to the seventh verse of the next chapter, and is nearly of the same argument with the preceding; bei...
Isaiah 8:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Judgments Announced. B. C. 740. 1 Moreover the L ORD said unto me, Take thee a great ro...
Isaiah 8:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

ISAIAH CHAPTER 8 Syria and Israel should be subdued by Assyria, Isaiah 8:1-4 . Judah also should be afflicted, Isaiah 8:5-8 , God's judgments irresistible, and to be feared, Isaiah 8:9-13...
Isaiah 8:1 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Birth of the Prophet's Son ( Isaiah 8:1-4 ). As previously mentioned, one central point in this passage is the sign given to Israel in terms of the birth of three sons, two of whom were sons o...
Isaiah 8:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

MAHER-SHALAL-HASH-BAZ Isaiah 8:1-4 . Moreover, the Lord said unto me, Take thee a great roll, &c. [823] [823] In the first chapter of Hosea occurs a like instance of symbolic names given by...
Isaiah 8:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 8:1 . Take thee a great roll. Lowth reads, a large mirror. The Chaldaic has scripturam claram, a fair writing, which might be on a polished plate; but the Versions read as the English....
Isaiah 8:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

Maher-shalal-hash-baz Maher-shalal-hash-baz Four words, or rather two sentences, form now the burden of this message; and they are embodied in the name of a boy. Maher-shalal,--this first sent...
Isaiah 8:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Isaiah 8:1-23 THE SIGN OF MAHER - SHALAL - HASH - BAZ . The sign of Immanuel was recondite. In its more spiritual sense it appealed to faith in an event far distant. Even...
Isaiah 8:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Moreover the Lord said unto me, apparently not long after the event related in the last chapter, Take thee a great roll, evidently a large writing-tablet of the kind usually employed, and write in...
Isaiah 8:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Habakkuk 2:2 ; Habakkuk 2:3 ; Isaiah 30:8 ; Jeremiah 36:2 ; Jeremiah 36:28 ; Jeremiah 36:32 ; Job 19:23 ; Job 19:24 ; Revelation 13:18 ; Revelation 21:17
Isaiah 8:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

A roll — Or, a great volume, because the prophecy to be written in it was large, and God would have it written in large and legible characters. Pen — With such a pen as writers use. Concerning — Co...

Isaiah 8:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 8:1 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 8:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 8:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 8:1 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 8:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 8:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 8:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 8:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 8:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 8:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 8:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 8:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 8:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 8:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 8:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 8:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 8:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 8:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 8:1 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 8:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Isaiah 8:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 8:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 8:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 8:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 8:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 8:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes