Isaiah 7:14-16 NKJV,NLT

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 7:16

Isaiah 7:16. The land that thou abhorrest, &c.— Distressed shall be that land, whose two kings thou art afraid of, or distressed by. The learned Vitringa seems to have proved beyond any doubt, not only the propriety of the interpretation given above, but also that the child spoken of in this verse, can be no other than he who is spoken of in the preceding verses. The connecting particle for, and the repetition of the words, refusing the evil and choosing the good, evidently demonstrate that... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 7:14

14. himself—since thou wilt not ask a sign, nay, rejectest the offer of one. you—for the sake of the house of believing "David" (God remembering His everlasting covenant with David), not for unbelieving Ahaz' sake. Behold—arresting attention to the extraordinary prophecy. virgin—from a root, "to lie hid," virgins being closely kept from men's gaze in their parents' custody in the East. The Hebrew, and the Septuagint here, and Greek (Matthew 1:23), have the article, the virgin, some definite one... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 7:15

15. Butter—rather, curdled milk, the acid of which is grateful in the heat of the East ( :-). honey—abundant in Palestine (Judges 14:8; 1 Samuel 14:25; Matthew 3:4). Physicians directed that the first food given to a child should be honey, the next milk [BARNABAS, Epistle]. HORSLEY takes this as implying the real humanity of the Immanuel Jesus Christ, about to be fed as other infants (Luke 2:52). Isaiah 7:22 shows that besides the fitness of milk and honey for children, a state of distress of... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 7:16

16. For—The deliverance implied in the name "Immanuel," and the cessation of distress as to food (Isaiah 7:14; Isaiah 7:15), shall last only till the child grows to know good and evil; for . . . the land that . . . abhorrest . . . forsaken of . . . kings—rather, desolate shall be the land, before whose two kings thou art alarmed [HENGSTENBERG and GESENIUS]. the land—namely, Syria and Samaria regarded as one (2 Kings 16:9; 2 Kings 15:30), just two years after this prophecy, as it foretells.... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 7:10-17

The sign of Immanuel 7:10-17Isaiah next tried to move Ahaz to faith (Isaiah 7:10-12), then denounced the king for his failure to trust Yahweh (Isaiah 7:13-15), and finally forecast a calamity worse than the division of Israel’s United Kingdom (Isaiah 7:16-17). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 7:14

Israel’s Sovereign Himself would give Ahaz and the house of David (plural "you") a sign that He was with His people-even though the king refused to ask for one. The sign no longer was an inducement to faith but a confirmation of divine displeasure. A particular pregnant young woman would bear a son and name Him "Immanuel" ("God with us"; cf. Genesis 16:11; Genesis 17:19; Judges 13:3). The definite article ("the") describes "virgin" in the Hebrew text. This sign should have encouraged Ahaz to... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 7:15-16

Eating curds (thick, sour milk) and honey, the diet of the poor, pictures a time of poverty in the land (cf. Isaiah 7:22) following the Assyrian invasion that would follow relief from the Syro-Ephraimitic threat. The child born in Ahaz’s day would eat this type of food when he became personally responsible for his decisions, an age that Isaiah left ambiguous intentionally. However, before this child became responsible, both of Judah’s threatening neighbors, Syria and Ephraim, would cease to... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 7:1-25

1-16. Isaiah assures Ahaz by a sign that Judah will be delivered from Syria and Israel.1. See prefatory note to the section.2. Ephraim] the popular name for the northern kingdom (Isaiah 9:8-9). His heart was moved] i.e. the heart of king Ahaz, because of the formidable confederacy against him. Serious reverses suffered by Judah at this time are recorded in 2 Chronicles 28:5-15.3. Shear-jashub] i.e. ’a remnant shall return.’ Already in the reign of Ahaz the prophet had summed up the... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 7:14

(14) Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son . . .—Better, behold, the young woman, or perhaps the bride, shall conceive. The first noun has the definite article in the Hebrew, and the word, though commonly used of the unmarried, strictly speaking denotes rather one who has arrived at marriageable age. “Bride,” in the old English and German sense of the word as applied to one who is about to become a wife, or is still a young wife, will, perhaps, best express its relation to the two... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 7:15

(15) Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know . . .—Better, till he know, or, when he shall know. . . .—By a strange inversion of the familiar associations of the phrase (Exodus 3:17; Deuteronomy 31:20), probably, as the prophet spoke them, not without a certain touch of the irony of paradox, the words describe a time, not of plenty, but of scarcity. (Comp. Isaiah 7:22.) Fields and vineyards should be left uncultivated (Isaiah 5:9), and instead of bread and meat, and wine and oil, the... read more

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 7:16

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 7:14

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 7:15

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 7:16

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 7:10-17

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 7:14

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 7:15-16

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 7:1-25

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 7:14

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 7:15

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