John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 7:7
Thus saith the Lord GOD, it shall not stand ,.... That is, the counsel they had taken against Judah to vex it, make a breach in it, and set a king of their own liking over it; so the Septuagint and Arabic versions render the words, "that counsel shall not stand"; the counsel of God shall stand, but not the counsel of men, when it is against him, Proverbs 19:21 , neither shall it come to pass ; or "shall not be"; so far from standing, succeeding, and going forward, till it is brought to... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 7:6
Let us go up against Judah, and vex it ,.... By besieging or distressing it; or "stir it up" to war, as Jarchi interprets it: and let us make a breach therein for us ; in the walls of the city of Jerusalem, and enter in at it; the Targum is, "let us join, and put it to us;' and so Jarchi, let us level it with us, as this valley, which is even: the sense may be, let us make a breach and division among them, and then part the kingdom between us F3 So Noldius, Elr. Concord. Part. p.... read more