I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. Then Yahweh said to me, “Call his name ‘Maher Shalal Hash Baz.’
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I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. Then Yahweh said to me, “Call his name ‘Maher Shalal Hash Baz.’
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And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
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And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. Then said the LORD unto me: 'Call his name Maher-shalal-hashbaz.
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Passages linked to Isaiah 8:3 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Hosea 1:3-9 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore him a son. Yahweh said to him, “Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease. It will happen in that day that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.” She conceived again, and bore a daughter. Then he said to him, “Call her name Lo-Ruhamah; for I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, that I should in any way pardon them. But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and will save them by Yahweh their God, and will not save them by bow, sword, battle, horses, or horsemen.” Now when she had weaned Lo-Ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son. He said, “Call his name Lo-Ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.
- Judges 4:4 Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, judged Israel at that time.
- 2 Kings 22:14 So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter); and they talked with her.
- Isaiah 7:13-14 He said, “Listen now, house of David. Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also? Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Meaning, to his wife, and this was done in…
Meaning, to his wife, and this was done in a vision.
Or, make speed to the spoil: haste to the prey.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Isa 8:3 And I went unto the prophetess; and…
Isa 8:3 And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.
Ver. 3. And I went unto the prophetess.] Prophets’ wives were anciently called prophetesses; like as bishops’ wives, saith A Lapide the Jesuit, were also called bishopesses, presbyters’ wives, presbyteresses, deacons’ wives, deaconesses. Jesuits have still their Jesuitesses, as majors their majoresses, &c.
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Maher-shalal-hash-baz,] q.d., Make haste, come away to so rich a booty, to the rifling and ruinating of these two potent and opulent kingdoms. God hereby seemeth to speak of the Assyrian, as Cicero once did his friend, Si dormis, expergiscere: si stas, ingredere: si ingrederis, curre: si curtis, advola, &c. and at the calling of this child by his name, the prediction was remembered, and the thing ascertained.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain I went unto, Heb. I came near to her.…
I went unto, Heb. I came near to her. A modest expression of the conjugal act.
The prophetess; so called, partly as she was the prophet’s wife, wives being frequently denominated from their husbands’ titles, as the wives of mayor, or doctor, &c, are commonly called mayoress, doctoress, &c.; and partly because she did concur with the prophet to the procreation of this prophetical child.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And I went unto the prophetess,.... His wife, so…
And I went unto the prophetess,.... His wife, so called; not because she prophesied, but because she was the wife of a prophet; and besides, the birth of her son later mentioned, and his name, had in them the nature of a prophecy. The phrase of going unto her is an euphemism, a modest way of expressing the conjugal debt:
and she conceived and bare a son; which Jarchi would have the same with Immanuel in Isa 7:14 but this is a later prophecy, and a distinct one from that; and not only the names of the children are different, but the mothers also; the one a virgin, the other the prophet's wife.
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Then said the Lord to me, call his name Mahershalalhashbaz: of the signification of this name; see Gill on Isa 8:1. Kimchi thinks that his name did not consist of these four words, only of two of them; and that he was sometimes called "Mahershalal", and sometimes "Hashbaz": both signifying the same thing. Some think that all this was done only in a vision, and not in reality, to declare and confirm what follows; though by that it seems rather to be a real fact.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Prophetess - To his own wife, so called, because…
Prophetess - To his own wife, so called, because the wife of a prophet.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Then said the Lord ... - The name thus…
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 Isa 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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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Prophetess. The blessed Virgin [Mary], (St. Chrysostom, &c.) or…
Prophetess. The blessed Virgin [Mary], (St. Chrysostom, &c.) or to his wife. He gives his son a different name from Emmanuel, (chap. vii. 14.) that they might not be confounded. --- Hasten. Hebrew Mahershalalchashbaz, ver. 1. (Haydock)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain prophetess--perhaps the same as the "virgin" (Isa 7:14), in…
prophetess--perhaps the same as the "virgin" (Isa 7:14), in the interim married as Isaiah's second wife: this is in the primary and temporary sense. Immanuel is even in this sense distinct from Maher-shalal-hash-baz. Thus nineteen months at least intervene from the prophecy (Isa 7:14), nine before the birth of Immanuel, and ten from that time to the birth of Maher-shalal-hash-baz: adding eleven or twelve months before the latter could cry, "Father" (Isa 8:4), we have about three years in all, agreeing with Isa 7:15-16.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 3. Then said the Lord — The prophetic inscription…
3. Then said the Lord — The prophetic inscription is fulfilled so far by the child’s birth; and Jehovah requires his symbolic name to be conferred, like a prophetic inscription, on the child.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 3. the prophetess] Isaiah’s wife is so called, not…
3. the prophetess] Isaiah’s wife is so called, not because she herself possessed the prophetic gift, but because the husband’s designation is transferred by courtesy to the wife;—as a German might have said “die Frau Prophetin.”
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (3) I . . . the prophetess . .…
(3) I . . . the prophetess . . .—The word may have been given by courtesy to a prophet’s wife as such. Elsewhere, however, as in the case of Deborah (Jdg_4:4) and Huldah (2Ch_34:22), it implies prophetic gifts. Possibly, therefore, we may think of the prophet and his wife as having been drawn together by united thoughts and counsels, in contrast with the celibate life of Jeremiah (Jer_16:2), the miseries of Hosea’s marriage (Hosea 1, 2), and the sudden bereavement of Ezekiel (Eze_24:16-18). We may, perhaps, trace, on this view, the wife’s hand in the toilet inventory of Isa_3:16-24.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The prophetess. It is not necessary to suppose that…
The prophetess. It is not necessary to suppose that the wife of Isaiah must have uttered prophecies because she is called "the prophetess." Titles were given in the East to the wives, daughters, etc., of officials, which merely reflected the dignity of their husbands, fathers, etc. Even Miriam seems to be called a "prophetess" (Exo_15:20) from her close relationship to Moses, rather than from any supernatural power that she had. In the Mishna, a priest"s wife or daughter is called "priestess" (Cheyne). Call his name. There is no reason for doubting that the name was actually given. Other Israelites had such names as Jushab-hosed, (1Ch_3:20) Haah-ashtari, (1Ch_4:6) Romamti-ezer, (1Ch_25:4) Machnadebai, (Ezr_10:40) and the like. Assyrian names were even longer; e.g. As-shur-bel-nisi-su, Asshur-kinat-ili-kain, etc. In ordinary parlance, names of this type were commonly shortened, "Shalman-eser" becoming "Shalmau", (Hos_10:14) "Sennacherib Jareb", (Hos_10:6) and the like.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 I went to the prophetess
I went to the prophetess
It can be stated explicitly that Isaiah is married to the prophetess. AT: "I slept with my wife, the prophetess" (See: Euphemism and Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
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the riches of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried away by the king of Assyria
This can be stated in active form. AT: "the king of Assyria will carry away all the treasures of Damascus and Samaria" (See: Active or Passive)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 8:3 my wife: Literally the prophetess. • Like the…
8:3 my wife: Literally the prophetess. • Like the name Immanuel (7:14), Maher-shalal-hash-baz is symbolic. It is possible that this child was the partial fulfillment of the Immanuel prophecy as well (see study note on 7:14). The ultimate fulfillment of the Immanuel prophecy occurred with the birth of Jesus (Matt 1:22-23).
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