Isaiah 7:18

Isaiah 7:18

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;

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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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.

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