Isaiah 8:12-13 KJV

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 8:12

Say ye not - Do not join in their purposes of forming a confederacy. Do not unite with the king and the people of Judah in their alarms about the threatened invasion by the kings of Syria and Samaria, and in their purpose to form an alliance with the king of Assyria. The reason why they should not do this, he states in Isaiah 8:13, where he exhorts the nation to put confidence in the Lord rather than in man. There has been, however, great diversity in the interpretation of this passage. The... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 8:13

Sanctify ... - Regard Yahweh as holy; that is, worship and honor him with pious fear and reverence. Regard him as the source of safety, and the true defense. Ahaz and his people sought for aid from Assyria against the armies of Syria and Samaria. The direction here is rather to seek aid from God.Let him be your fear - Do not be alarmed at what man can do Isaiah 8:12, but fear and honor God. Be afraid to provoke his wrath by looking to other sources of help when his aid only should be sought. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 8:11-12

Isaiah 8:11-12. For the Lord spake thus unto me Here the prophet teaches the people by his own example, as one immediately taught by God, with what dispositions they should receive all the attempts of their enemies, to subvert the kingdom of God in their land, even to the time of the Messiah, of whose manifestation this instruction contains a repeated prophecy for the consolation of the pious, together with a denunciation of the most grievous judgments, spiritual and temporal, upon the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 8:13-15

Isaiah 8:13-15. Sanctify the Lord of hosts Give him the glory of his power, and goodness, and faithfulness, by trusting in his promises for deliverance; and let him be your fear Let God, and not the kings of Syria and Israel, be the chief object of your fear. And he shall be for a sanctuary A sure refuge to all that truly fear him, and rely upon him; but for a stone of stumbling An occasion of sin and ruin, at whom they will take offence, and stumble, so as to fall and be broken, as... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 8:11-22

Judah rejects Isaiah’s preaching (8:11-22)Once again God reminds Isaiah to trust in him alone. Isaiah is not to follow Ahaz and the people, whether in fearing the Israelite-Syrian alliance or in trusting in Judah’s alliance with Assyria (11-12). God should be the means of Judah’s safety; but if the people do not trust in him they will find that he is the means of their destruction (13-15).When neither the king nor the people heed the messages he brings them from God, Isaiah ceases his public... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 8:12

confederacy. Hebrew. kesher. Never used in a good sense. to all them to whom = whensoever, or whereof. neither, &c. Quoted in 1 Peter 3:14 , 1 Peter 3:15 . their fear = what they fear, or with their fear. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 8:13

Sanctify = Hallow, regard as holy. Compare Isaiah 29:23 . See note on Exodus 3:5 . Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 20:12 ; Numbers 27:14 ). the LORD of hosts. See note on Isaiah 1:9 and 1 Samuel 1:9 . be your dread = inspire you with awe. Quoted in 1 Peter 3:13-15 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 8:13

Isaiah 8:13. Sanctify the Lord of Hosts himself— The Lord of Hosts, him shall ye sanctify, &c. The duty opposite to the vice of the Jewish people is here set forth, Sanctify the Lord; that is to say, so worship and reverence him, as to attribute to him all that glory which properly belongs to him. See Numbers 20:12. Deu 32:51 and ch. Isa 29:23 of this book. Perhaps the word sanctify in this place contains a more sublime sense; leading us to understand, that he gives the greatest honour to... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 8:12

12-16. The words of Jehovah. confederacy—rather, a conspiracy; an appropriate term for the unnatural combination of Israel with Syrian foreigners against Judea and the theocracy, to which the former was bound by ties of blood and hereditary religion [MAURER]. to all . . . say—rather, of all which this people calleth a conspiracy [G. V. SMITH]. their fear—namely, object of fear: the hostile conspiracy. be afraid—rather [MAURER], "nor make others to be afraid." read more