Isaiah 7:14

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 7:3-25

ISAIAH’S INTERVIEW WITH AHAZIsaiah 7:3-25. Then said the Lord unto Isaiah, &c.In this interview of Isaiah with Ahaz we have an instance—I. Of God’s efforts to turn men from ruinous courses. God is the great Lawgiver, and the Judge before whose bar all impenitent transgressors of His law will have to stand. Absolute inflexibility is necessarily His characteristic in both these capacities. But these are not the only capacities He seeks to sustain to us. It is His ambition to be the Saviour of... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 7:13-16

THE VIRGIN’S SONIsaiah 7:13-16. And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David, &c.On this supremely difficult passage Dr. Kennicott preached a remarkable sermon before the University of Oxford, on the 19th of May 1765. As this sermon is not readily accessible, I here give some extracts from it.Concerning these words there have been the four following opinions:—I. That the whole passage relates only to a son of Isaiah.II. That the whole passage relates only to CHRIST.III. That the whole passage... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Isaiah 7:14

IMMANUELIsaiah 7:14. And shall call His name Immanuel.His being “called so,” according to the usual dialect of the Hebrew, does not signify so much that this should be His usual name, as that this should be His real character.I. Explain the meaning of this great and extraordinary title, IMMANUEL (cf. Isaiah 8:8 and Matthew 1:23). This title may be considered under a double reference, either, 1. To the constitution of His person; or, 2. To His office and actings as mediator. 1. It is one of the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Isaiah 7:10-14

Isaiah 7:10-14 I. Isaiah is desired to offer Ahaz a sign either in the depth or the height. That the Jewish economy was in some sense an economy of signs we all admit. The Jewish prophet was to call the attention of his countrymen to these signs, to discover the signification of them. Our Lord laid down the whole doctrine upon this subject when the Pharisees sought a sign from Him. He had given them signs of healing, life-giving power proofs, that a present God was with them. But they wanted a... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Isaiah 7:1-25

Chapter 7Now Uzziah is dead and his grandson Ahaz is reigning.It came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, the king of Judah, that Rezin was the king of Syria, and Pekah was the son of Remaliah, the king of Israel ( Isaiah 7:1 ),So Pekah was ruling in Israel. He had assassinated the previous king. And Syria and Israel, the Northern Kingdom, had confederated together to attack Judah, the Southern Kingdom. And so theycame up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 7:1-25

Isaiah 7:1 . In the days of Ahaz, the second or the third year of his reign. Chapters 5. and 6. are therefore out of place. Isaiah 7:6 . Let us go up against Judah and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal. The rabbins make him to be a relative of the reigning family in Samaria. They gave away David’s throne before they had conquered it! Isaiah 7:8 . The head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. But Jerusalem now had the Lord for her head. Within... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Isaiah 7:14

Isaiah 7:14Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a signGod’s sign to King AhazPerhaps more perplexity has been produced among commentators by this passage than by any other in Old Testament prophecy.The chief difficulties of the passage may be stated as follows: Does the prophecy refer to some event which was soon to occur, or does it refer exclusively to some event in the distant future? If it refers to some event which was soon to occur, what event was it? Who was the child intended, and... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Isaiah 7:14

Isa 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Ver. 14. Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. ] Give it you, ingratiis vestris, without your leave, of his own proffer. "If we believe not, yet God remaineth faithful." 2Ti 2:13 Rom 3:3 The house of David was as it were great with child with Christ and with God’s promises in him; therefore, to be sure, it could not be rooted out, as... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Isaiah 7:14

Behold: Genesis 3:15, Jeremiah 31:22, Matthew 1:23, Luke 1:35 shall call: or, thou, O virgin shall call: Genesis 4:1, Genesis 4:2, Genesis 4:25, Genesis 16:11, Genesis 29:32, Genesis 30:6, Genesis 30:8, 1 Samuel 1:20, 1 Samuel 4:21 Immanuel: Isaiah 8:8, Isaiah 9:6, John 1:1, John 1:2, John 1:14, Romans 9:5, 1 Timothy 3:16 Reciprocal: Genesis 28:15 - I am Exodus 3:12 - token Exodus 3:13 - What is his name Exodus 23:21 - my name Exodus 33:19 - proclaim Leviticus 4:28 - a kid Deuteronomy 20:1... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 7:14

Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.Therefore — Because you despise me, and the sign which I now offer to you, God of his own free grace will send you a more honourable messenger, and give you a nobler sign.A sign — Of your deliverance. But how was this birth, which was not to happen 'till many ages after, a sign of their deliverance from present danger? This promised birth supposed the preservation... read more

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