Isaiah 7:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

For before. This was the sign to Ahaz and all present. Compare the further sign, Isaiah 8:4, and see App-101.

child. sucking child.

the land. the soil.

abhorrest: or vexest.

shall be forsaken. So it came to pass two years later. Compare 2 Kings 15:30; 2 Kings 16:9. See note on Isaiah 1:4.

of. because of. Connect this with "abhorrest", not with "forsaken".

both her kings: i.e. Pekah and Rezin (Isaiah 7:1).

Isaiah 7:16

16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.