1 Moreover the Lord said to me, “Take a large scroll, and awrite on it with a man’s pen concerning1 Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.
2 And I will take for Myself faithful witnesses to record, aUriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.”
3 Then I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then the Lord said to me, “Call his name Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz;
4afor before the child shall have knowledge to cry ‘My father’ and ‘My mother,’ bthe riches of Damascus and the2 spoil of Samaria will be taken away before the king of Assyria.”
Then said the Lord ... - The name thus given was to be emblematic of a particular event - that Assyria would soon take away the spoil of Damascus and Samaria. It is not remarkable that the name Immanuel should also be given to the same child, as signifying the presence and protection of God in defending the nation from the invaders; see the notes at Isaiah 7:14-15. Calvin thinks that all this passed in a vision before the prophet; but it has every mark of being a literal narrative of the birth of a son to Isaiah; and without this supposition, it is impossible to understand the account contained here.
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