![]() ![]() Those tablets were made of wood, metal, or stone, for the purpose of writing on see Isaiah 30:8 Habakkuk 2:2. And that it might be done with the greater solemnity, and to preclude all doubt of the real delivery of the prophecy before the event, he calls witnesses to attest the recording of it.” Concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz - Concerning that thing which is signified by the name of the child, which is here mentioned by way of anticipation, as not being given him till Isaiah 8:3 that is, concerning that which God is making haste to do, the giving up Syria and Israel for a prey to the Assyrians.īarnes' Notes on the BibleTake thee a great roll - The word which is here translated 'roll' more properly signifies tablet. “In this manner,” says he, “the prophet was to record the prophecy of the destruction of Damascus and Samaria by the Assyrians: the subject and sum of which prophecy are here expressed, with great brevity, in four words, maher, shalal, hash, baz that is, to hasten the spoil, to take quickly the prey: which was afterward applied as the name of the prophet’s son, who was made a sign of the speedy completion of it Haste-to-the-spoil, Quick-to-the-prey. Accordingly, he renders the word חרשׂ, which we translate a pen, a graving tool. Bishop Lowth, deriving the word גליון, here rendered roll, from גלה, to show, to reveal, rather than from גלל, to roll, translates it, a large mirror, or polished tablet of metal, like those which were anciently used for mirrors, and also for engraving on. The second part more fully and distinctly explains the purpose of God with respect both to the Israelites and Jews, for the consolation of the pious, and the terror of the impious and carnal, among them.” Take thee a great roll - Or, a great volume, because the prophecy to be written in it was large: and God would have it written in very large and legible characters and write in it with a man’s pen - With such a pen as writers use, that so all may read and understand it. The first part, in the first four verses, contains a confirmation and sign of the prediction concerning the sudden subversion of the kingdoms of Syria and Israel. 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 being prophetical, and containing matter both of comfort and reproof. That mysterious name, which we may render “ Speed-plunder, haste-spoil,” was, for at least nine months, to be the enigma of Jerusalem.īenson Commentary Isaiah 8:1. Job 19:24 Isaiah 30:8.) Here the tablet was to be large, and the writing was not to be with the sharp point of the artist or learned scribe, but with a “man’s pen,” i.e., such as the common workmen used for sign-boards, that might fix the gaze of the careless passer-by ( Habakkuk 2:2), and on that tablet, as though it were the heading of a proclamation or dedication, he was to write TO MAHER-SHALAL-HASH-BAZ. ![]() For private and less permanent messages men used small wooden tablets smeared with wax, on which they wrote with an iron stylus. The writings of the prophet were commonly written on papyrus and placed in the hands of his disciples to be read aloud. The noun is the same as that used for “mirrors” or “glasses” in Isaiah 3:23. He was to repeat all that he had said, more definitely, more demonstratively than ever. If such was the state of things when the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, was he to recant and confess that he had erred? Was he to shrink back into silence and obscurity? Far otherwise than that. To the weak and faithless Ahaz and his counsellors, it might well seem that the prospect was darker than ever, that there was no hope but in the protection of Assyria. The commerce of the Red Sea was cut off by Rezin’s capture of Elath ( 2Kings 16:6). The Edomites were harassing the south-eastern frontier ( 2Chronicles 28:15-17). Many thousands, but for the intercession of the prophet Oded, would have eaten the bread of exile and slavery. Multitudes had been carried captive to Damascus ( 2Chronicles 28:5). The attack of Rezin and Pekah, though Jerusalem had not been taken, had inflicted an almost irreparable blow on the kingdom of Judah. The child that was the type of the greater Immanuel had been born, but there were no signs as yet of the downfall of the northern kingdom. ![]() ![]() In the meantime much that had happened seemed to cast discredit on the prophet’s words. The prophecy that follows was clearly separated by an interval of some kind, probably about a year, from that in Isaiah 7. Ellicott's Commentary for English ReadersVIII. ![]()
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