Isaiah 7

Isaiah 7:1

AHaz] 2 Kings 16:5. 2 Chron. 28. 1.

Rezin] 2 Kings 15:37.

Syria,] Heb. Aram. Genesis 10:22.

Pkah] 2 Kings 15:27.

went up] Psalms 129:2.

towards] Or, unto.

could not] They besieged Jerusalem; but could not take it. 2 Kings 16:5.

prevail against it.] Heb. warre. as Numbers 22:11.

Isaiah 7:2

the house] The Kings house, who was of the linage of David.

is confederate] Heb. resteth on: relying upon his assistance. See Chap. 10. 20.

Ephraim?] Israel; the ten tribes, whereof that a principall one, Genesis 48:19. So Chap. 28. 1.

moved] Trembled with feare. Chap. 21. 4.

Isaiah 7:3

Shear-jashub] That is, A remnant shall return. Chap. 10. 21.

thy sonne] A name given his sonne by Gods appointment, to signifie the return of a residue from captivitie. Chap. 8. 13.

conduit of] 2 Kings 18:17. Chap. 36. 2. Chap. 22. 9.

high-way] Or, causey way. Chap. 35. 8. and 40. 3.

Isaiah 7:4

Take heed,] Or, Look that thou beest quiet; keep thy self quet, Chap. 30. 15.

neither be faint hearted] Heb. let not thine heart be tender. Deuteronomy 20:3. Jeremiah 51:46.

two tails] An allusion to Sampsons foxes, tied tail to tail, Judges 15:4.

smoking firebrands,] That make a great smother; do much mischief. 2 Chron. 28. 6.-8. but shall soon be quenched, Psalms 118:12.

fierce anger] Heb. burning heat of nose. or, anger. Deuteronomy 29:24. Iam. 2.

Isaiah 7:6

vex it,] Or, waken. See vers. 16.

make a breach] Or, divide it between us, or, set.

in the midst] Or, therein. as Chap. 6. 12. vers. 22.

Tabeal] Some Syrian, say some; some Israelite, think others; some of the Rabbines, by a trick of theirs, Remaliah.

Isaiah 7:7

It shall not] Chap. 8. 10. Psalms 33:10.

Isaiah 7:8

the head of] Or, As the head of Syria is Damascus: so Rczin shall still be the head of Damascus; not of Jerusalem, as he hopeth: nor shall Pekah reign there, but in Samaria, as he now doth. vers. 9. Or, Damascus the head of Syria, and Rezin the head of Damascus, together with Ephraim, and the head thereof Pekah, shall be broken all to pieces, &c.

threescore and five] Reckoning, as some, from the twenty and second of Uzziah; what time this was foretold by Amos, Amos 1:1. unto the sixt of Hezekiah, what time Shalmanefer took Samaria, and carried the people away captive, 2 King. 18. 10, 11. Or, as others, from the present fourth of Ahaz, unto the twenty third of Manasseh; what time the residue of them were carried away by Esarhaddon, Ezra 4:2.

broken,] Or, destroyed. Chap. 14. 25. Jeremiah 48:4.

That it be not a people] Heb. from being a people. Jeremiah 48:42. So Chap. 17. 2.

Isaiah 7:9

If ye willnot beleeve] Or, do ye not beleeve? it is because ye are not stable.

Isaiah 7:10

Moreover,] Heb. And the Lord added to speak. as Chap. 1. 5. and 8. 5.

Isaiah 7:11

of the Lord] For the confirmation of his word, as Judg. 6. 36,-40.

ask it] Or, make thy petition deep. as Chap. 31. 6.

in the height] Heb. lift aloft.

Isaiah 7:12

will I tempt] Spoken by him hypocritically; as respecting that prohibition, Deuteronomy 6:16.

Isaiah 7:13

men,] Gods messengers, in refusing to obey them.

God also] God himselfe, in rejecting his gracious offer; and by your wicked courses otherwise. Chap. 1. 14. and 43. 24.

Isaiah 7:14

shall give you a sign,] Of his own free goodnesse, Ezekiel 36:32.

Behold,] Matthew 1:23.

a virgin shall] A prophecie of the miraculous birth of the Messias, to be born of a virgin, that had not known man. Matthew 1:21; Matthew 1:25. Luke 1:27; Luke 1:31; Luke 1:34-35.

shall call] Or, thou, O virgin, shalt call.

Immanuel.] That is, God with us. Chap. 8. 10. a fit name for Christ, both God and man; the Mediator and reconciler of God and us, John 1:1; John 1:14. 1 Timothy 2:5. 1 Peter 3:18.

Isaiah 7:15

shall he eat] Christ, as man, shall be fed, as others ordinarily in their infancie are. Or, This my child (of which, v. 3.) shal, for all thy vain fears, be plentifully brought up. Job 20:17.

that be may know] Untill he attain unto yeers of discretion. Some-what like that, Jonah 4:11.

Isaiah 7:16

before] Chap. 8. 4.

the child] This child here, or such an other as this.

the land that] The land of Israel, and of Syria, shall both lose their Kings, 2 Kings 15:30. 16. 9. Or, The land of Israel, by whose two kings, the one her native, the other her confederate, thou ar thus vexed, vers. 6. shall be left of her inhabitants, 2 Kings 17:6. See Chap. 6. 12.

Isaiah 7:17

shall bring upon thee] A worse evill then thou at present fearest, shall befall thee and thine, from those, whom ye least suspect.

Ephraim] Israel, the ten tribes; as before, vers. 2.

departed from Iudah;] Under Rehoboam, 2 King. 12. 16,-20.

even the] Or, by the. as vers. 20.

king of Assyria.] On whom thou now reliest, 2 Kings 16:7.

Isaiah 7:18

hisse for] Chap. 5. 26.

the flic] Egvptian flies, and Assyrian bees; because of the store of flies in Egypt, a waterie soil; of bees in Assyria, a more wooddy countrey: or rather, so tearmed both of them, for the swarms and multitudes of them Exodus 8:21. Psalms 118:12. the latter also, for their cagernesse; Deuteronomy 1:44. See Jeremiah 30:26.

Isaiah 7:19

all of them] Not the Egyptians themselves onely, but other people also bordering upon them. See Chap. 18. 1. and 20. 4.

the desolate] No place shall be free from them: nor shall ye any where escape them, Jeremiah 16:16.

the holes] Where men use to hide themselves. Chap. 2. 19. 21.

all bushes] Places also of covert, 2 Chronicles 33:11. Genesis 3:8.

bushes.] Or, commendable trees.

Isaiah 7:20

resour] Ezekiel 5:1.

hired,] By King Achaz himselfe, 2 King. 16. 7, 8.

river,] Euphrates. Psalms 72:8. Jeremiah 2:18.

the head] Make all bare from top to toe.

feel:] Of the secret parts, Genesis 49:10. Deuteronomy 28:57. Chap. 6. 2.

Isaiah 7:21

a young cow,] A small quantitie of cattle shall men content themselves with.

eat butter:] And yet have plenty of provision: so few to eat it being left. Chap. 6. 11, 12.

eat that is left] Having none, of the richer sort especially, to sell it to, 2 Kings 25:12.

in the land.] Heb. in the midst of the Land. Chap. 5. 8.

Isaiah 7:23

there were] The richest and fertilest places shall, for want of manuring, be overgrown with briers and brambles. vers. 24. Chap. 5. 6.

silverlings,] Shekels of silver, vineyards valued at about one hundred and twenty five pounds by the yeer, Son 8:11.

Isaiah 7:24

arrows and] As men go to seek wild beasts in the bushes: or to defend themselves against such as there lurk, Exodus 23:29.

all the land] Chap. 32. 13.

Isaiah 7:25

shall] Or, should. as Malachi 1:6.

digged with] For the planting of vines.

there shall not] Or, none shall come thither for fear, as Lamentations 4:22. Malachi 2:5.

the treading] For cattle of each kind to run at large in.