Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadBullinger Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 8:6 - 8:6
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
Shiloah: i.e. the waters beneath Zion running from Gihon to Siloam. See App-68.
rejoice in Kezin. This is not "a wrong reading of the Hebrew text", hut it refers to the trust reposed in the king of Syria instead of in Jehovah (Isa_7:9). They despised God's covenant with Zion (symbolized by its secret stream), and preferred the help of the heathen; therefore the Assyrian floods should overwhelm them. (Compare the same contrast in Psa_46:3, Psa_46:45; and see notes there.) This applied specially to Israel: and the judgment overtook Israel first.