Isaiah 8:2 - Exposition

And I took unto me ; rather, and I will have taken for me . It is still God who is speaking. Uriah the priest . Probably the high priest of the time, mentioned in 2 Kings 16:10-16 , as the ready tool of Ahaz at a later date. Though a bad man, he may have been a trustworthy witness to a fact. Zechariah . Perhaps the father of Abi or Abijah, Ahaz's queen ( 2 Kings 18:2 ; 2 Chronicles 29:1 ). It would serve to call public attention still more to the tablet, if it bore the names of two such eminent persons as witnesses.