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James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 7:10-14

AN UNBELIEVING KING‘Moreover the Lord spake again unto Ahaz, saying, Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above,’ etc. Isaiah 7:10-2 Chronicles : I. Isaiah is desired to offer Ahaz a sign either in the depth or the height.—That the Jewish economy was in some sense an economy of signs we all admit. The Jewish prophet was to call the attention of his countrymen to these signs, to discover the signification of them. Our Lord laid down the whole... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 7:10-17

The Miserable Failure of Ahaz and God’s Judgment On His House (Isaiah 7:10-17 ). We must not underestimate this incident. In this total turnabout of history in Israel’s most crucial time, for it would determine the whole of the future, the scion of the house of David rejects God’s protection, and, uniquely, God’s offer of a striking supernatural sign, and the result is that he and his descendants born from his seed are thereby debarred from being the future Davidic king. Because of Ahaz’s... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 7:1-16

Isaiah 7:1-Nehemiah : . Isaiah Gives Ahaz the Encouraging Sign of Immanuel when he is Dismayed by the Alliance of Syria and Ephraim against him.— For the historical circumstances see pp. 59, 70f. Apart from Isaiah 7:1, which is derived from 2 Kings 16:5 and is out of chronological order, this section seems to have been written by an editor on the basis of Isaiah’ s autobiography (contrast the 1st person of the preceding chapter with the 3rd of this). The alarm, described in the picturesque... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 7:14

Therefore; because you despise me, and the sign which I now offer to you, God of his own free grace will send you a more honourable messenger, and give you a nobler sign, to try whether that will cure you of your infidelity. Or, nevertheless, as this particle seems to be understood, Isaiah 30:18; Jeremiah 16:14; Jeremiah 30:16. Although you deserve no sign nor favour, yet, for the comfort of those few believers which are among you, and to leave you without excuse, I shall mind you or another... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 7:15

Butter and honey; the common food of children in that Country, where they were in great abundance, and of the best sort. He; the virgin’s Son last mentioned, who, though he be God blessed for ever, yet shall become man, and, to show the truth of his humanity, shall not only be conceived and brought forth, but also shall be nourished and brought up, by the same means and steps as other children; which is justly mentioned here as a stupendous and miraculous work of God. That he may know; that by... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 7:16

For; or, yea; for so this particle is used by way of amplification or addition, Isaiah 32:13; Jeremiah 14:5,Jeremiah 14:18. So the sense is, Not only this land of thine shall be preserved until the virgin’s Son be born, but thine enemy’s land shall be sorely scourged, and these two kings destroyed, within a very little time. The child, Heb. this child; not the virgin’s Son, but the prophet’s child, Shear-jashub, whom in all probability the prophet, to prevent mistakes, pointed at, and who was... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 7:3-25

ISAIAH’S INTERVIEW WITH AHAZIsaiah 7:3-25. Then said the Lord unto Isaiah, &c.In this interview of Isaiah with Ahaz we have an instance—I. Of God’s efforts to turn men from ruinous courses. God is the great Lawgiver, and the Judge before whose bar all impenitent transgressors of His law will have to stand. Absolute inflexibility is necessarily His characteristic in both these capacities. But these are not the only capacities He seeks to sustain to us. It is His ambition to be the Saviour of... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 7:13-16

THE VIRGIN’S SONIsaiah 7:13-16. And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David, &c.On this supremely difficult passage Dr. Kennicott preached a remarkable sermon before the University of Oxford, on the 19th of May 1765. As this sermon is not readily accessible, I here give some extracts from it.Concerning these words there have been the four following opinions:—I. That the whole passage relates only to a son of Isaiah.II. That the whole passage relates only to CHRIST.III. That the whole passage... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 7:14

IMMANUELIsaiah 7:14. And shall call His name Immanuel.His being “called so,” according to the usual dialect of the Hebrew, does not signify so much that this should be His usual name, as that this should be His real character.I. Explain the meaning of this great and extraordinary title, IMMANUEL (cf. Isaiah 8:8 and Matthew 1:23). This title may be considered under a double reference, either, 1. To the constitution of His person; or, 2. To His office and actings as mediator. 1. It is one of the... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 7:15

THE GREAT OBJECT OF CHILD-TRAINING(A Sunday-School Anniversary Sermon.)Isaiah 7:15. The child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.These words, taken above, form a complete sentence; yet they occur in the clause of a sentence which is intended to denote a space of time. Before the child which Isaiah held in his arms [820] should know the difference between right and wrong certain events would take place: in other words, before a space of four or five years at the most would... read more

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