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14 Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: aBehold, the virgin shall conceive and bear ba Son, and shall call His name cImmanuel.  
15 Curds and honey He shall eat, that He may know to refuse the evil and choose the good.
16 aFor before the Child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land that you dread will be forsaken by bboth her kings.  
17 aThe Lord will bring the king of Assyria upon you and your people and your father’s house—days that have not come since the day that bEphraim departed from Judah.” 
18 And it shall come to pass in that day
That the Lord awill whistle for the fly
That is in the farthest part of the rivers of Egypt,
And for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. 
19 They will come, and all of them will rest
In the desolate valleys and in athe clefts of the rocks,
And on all thorns and in all pastures. 
20 In the same day the Lord will shave with a ahired brazor,
With those from beyond1 the River, with the king of Assyria,
The head and the hair of the legs,
And will also remove the beard. 
21 It shall be in that day
That a man will keep alive a young cow and two sheep;
22 So it shall be, from the abundance of milk they give,
That he will eat curds;
For curds and honey everyone will eat who is left in the land.
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Isaiah 7:16

For—The deliverance implied in the name "Immanuel," and the cessation of distress as to food (Isaiah 7:14-15), 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 (II Kings 16:9; II Kings 15:30), just two years after this prophecy, as it foretells. HORSLEY takes it, "The land (Judah and Samaria) of (the former of) which thou art the plague (literally, 'thorn') shall be forsaken," etc.; a prediction thus, that Judah and Israel (appropriately regarded as one "land") should cease to be kingdoms (Luke 2:1; Genesis 49:10) before Immanuel came.

Though temporary deliverance (Isaiah 7:16; Isaiah 8:4) was to be given then, and final deliverance through Messiah, sore punishment shall follow the former. After subduing Syria and Israel, the Assyrians shall encounter Egypt (II Kings 23:29), and Judah shall be the battlefield of both (Isaiah 7:18), and be made tributary to that very Assyria (II Chronicles 28:20; II Kings 16:7-8) now about to be called in as an ally (Isaiah 39:1-6). Egypt, too, should prove a fatal ally (Isaiah 36:6; Isaiah 31:1, etc.).




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 7:16:

Isaiah 7:14
Isaiah 7:16
Isaiah 7:25
Isaiah 8:3
Jeremiah 21:8
Hebrews 5:14

 

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