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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 7:11 - 7:11
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Ask thee - since thou dost not credit the prophet’s words.
sign - a miraculous token to assure thee that God will fulfil His promise of saving Jerusalem (Isa 37:30; Isa 38:7, Isa 38:8). “Signs,” facts then present or near at hand as pledges for the more distant future, are frequent in Isaiah.
ask ... in ... depth - literally, “Make deep ... ask it,” that is, Go to the depth of the earth or of Hades [Vulgate and Lowth], or, Mount high for it (literally, “Make high”). So in Mat 16:1. Signs in heaven are contrasted with the signs on earth and below it (raising the dead) which Jesus Christ had wrought (compare Rom 10:6, Rom 10:7). He offers Ahaz the widest limits within which to make his choice.