Isaiah 7:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I have separated this verse from the whole passage going before from an idea, (though I presume not to say I am right) that it is not connected with what is said concerning Christ, but as a sign to Isaiah concerning himself, and the events then pending in the church. Some have translated the words, "For before this child, " that is, his own child, Shear-jashub, whom the Lord had commanded the prophet to take with him to Ahaz, "before this child was grown up, " the land thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings." And in confirmation of this as an history, it is remarkable, that about three years after this preaching of Isaiah to Ahaz, as we read, 2 Kings 15:30, Hoshea killed Pekah the son of Remaliah, and, 2 Kings 16:9, the king of Assyria slew Rezin: It should seem, therefore, that it was to those events this verse referred, and not to Christ, with whom it should seem it had no connection.