Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
FATAL CONSEQUENCES OF AHAZ' ASSYRIAN POLICY. (Isaiah 7:17-25)
hiss—whistle, to bring bees to settle (see on Isaiah 5:26).
fly—found in numbers about the arms of the Nile and the canals from it (Isaiah 19:5-7; Isaiah 23:3), here called "rivers." Hence arose the plague of flies (Exodus 8:21). Figurative, for numerous and troublesome foes from the remotest parts of Egypt, for example, Pharaoh-nechoh.
bee— (Deuteronomy 1:44; Psalms 118:12). As numerous in Assyria as the fly in marshy Egypt. Sennacherib, Esar-haddon, and Nebuchadnezzar fulfilled this prediction.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 7:18:
Isaiah 4:5
Isaiah 5:26
Isaiah 7:3
Isaiah 7:16
Isaiah 7:18
Isaiah 7:20
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