Isaiah 8:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And I wentb unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz. ”

Isaiah 8:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then said the Lord ... - The name thus given was to be emblematic of a particular event - that Assyria would soon take away the spoil of Damascus and Samaria. It is not remarkable that the name I...
Isaiah 8:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And I went to the (d) prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz. (d) Meaning, to his wife and this was done in a vision.
Isaiah 8:3 - 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 8:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

3. And I approached to the prophetess. What follows happened to the Prophet, I have no doubt, by a vision, for the purpose of sealing the former prediction. The vision given to Isaiah was, t...
Isaiah 8:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.
Isaiah 8:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And I went unto the prophetess— And I had gone unto the prophetess, and she had conceived; and she bare a son; and the Lord said unto me, &c. Vitringa.
Isaiah 8:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hashbaz. And I went unto the prophetess - perhaps the same as the "virgi...
Isaiah 8:3 - 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 8:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

I... the prophetess... — The word may have been given by courtesy to a prophet’s wife as such. Elsewhere, however, as in the case of Deborah ( Judges 4:4 ) and Huldah ( 2 Chronicles 34:22 ), it imp...
Isaiah 8:3 - 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 8:3 - 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 8:3 - 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 8:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The prophet is commanded to commit to writing what he had to deliver. We have reason to bless God for this appointment, by which scripture records have been handed down to us. We find several prophet...
Isaiah 8:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And I went unto the prophetess ,.... His wife, so called; not because she prophesied, but because she was the wife of a prophet; and besides, the birth of her son later mentioned, and his name, had...
Isaiah 8:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz. Ver. 3. And I went unto the prophetess. ] Prophets' wives were ancien...
Isaiah 8:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And I took me faithful witnesses Persons of unquestionable reputation, who should bear witness that the following name and prophecy were written and published by me, according to God's command. It...
Isaiah 8:3 - 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 8:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I went unto, Heb. I came near to her . A modest expression of the conjugal act. The prophetess; so called, partly as she was the prophet's wife, wives being frequently denominated from their hus...
Isaiah 8:3 - 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 8:3 - 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 8:3 - 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 8:3 - 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 8:3 - 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 8:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Double Prophetic Sign
Isaiah 8:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 22:14 ; Hosea 1:3-9 ; Isaiah 7:13 ; Isaiah 7:14 ; Isaiah 8:1 ; Judges 4:4
Isaiah 8:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Prophetess — To his own wife, so called, because the wife of a prophet.

Isaiah 8:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 8:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 8:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 8:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 8:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 8:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 8:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 8:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 8:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 8:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 8:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 8:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 8:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 8:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 8:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 8:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 8:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 8:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 8:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 8:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Isaiah 8:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 8:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 8:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 8:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 8:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 8:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes