Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 7:3
Now - נא na , is omitted by two MSS., the Septuagint, Syriac, Arabic, and Vulgate. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 7:4
The Syriac omits וארם vearam , "and Syria;" the Vulgate reads ארם מלך melech aram , "king of Syria:" one or the other seems to be the true reading. I prefer the former: or, instead of ובן וארם vearam uben , read בן ופקח vepekach ben , and pekah son , MS. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 7:5
Because - Remaliah - All these words are omitted by one MS. and the Syriac; a part of them also by the Septuagint. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 7:8-9
For the head of Syria, etc. - "Though the head of Syria be Damascus, And the head of Damascus Retsin; Yet within threescore and five years Ephraim shall be broken, that he be no more a people: And the head of Ephraim be Samaria; And the head of Samaria Remaliah's son. "Here are six lines, or three distichs, the order of which seems to have been disturbed by a transposition, occasioned by three of the lines beginning with the same word וראש verosh , "and the head," which three lines... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 7:11
In the depth "Go deep to the grave" - So Aquila, Symmachus, Theodotion, and the Vulgate. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 7:14
The Lord "Jehovah" - For אדני Adonai , twenty-five of Kennicott's MSS., nine ancient, and fourteen of De Rossi's, read יהוה Jehovah . And so Isaiah 7:20 , eighteen MSS. Immanuel - For עמנואל Immanuel , many MSS. and editions have אל עמנו immanu El , God with us. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 7:15
That he may know "When he shall know" - "Though so much has been written on this important passage, there is an obscurity and inconsequence which still attends it, in the general run of all the interpretations given to it by the most learned. And this obscure incoherence is given to it by the false rendering of a Hebrew particle, viz., ל le , in לדעתו ledato . This has been generally rendered, either 'that he may know,' or 'till he know.' It is capable of either version, without... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 7:18
Hiss for the fly "Hist the fly" - See note on Isaiah 5:26 . Egypt, and - Assyria - Sennacherib, Esarhaddon, Pharaoh-necho, and Nebuchadnezzar, who one after another desolated Judea. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 7:19
Holes of the rocks "Caverns" - So the Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, whence Houbigant supposes the true reading to be הנחללים hannachalolim . One of my oldest MSS. reads הנחלולים hannochalolim . read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 7
The king of Judah and the royal family being in the utmost consternation on receiving accounts of the invasion of the kings of Syria and Israel, the prophet is sent to assure them that God would make good his promises to David and his house; so that, although they might be corrected, they could not be destroyed, while these prophecies remained to be accomplished, Isaiah 7:1-9 . The Lord gives Ahaz a sign that the confederacy against Judah shall be broken, which sign strikingly points out the... read more