Matthew Poole Commentary - Isaiah 7:17 - 7:17

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Isaiah 7:17 - 7:17


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The Lord shall bring; but although God will deliver you at this time for his own name’s sake, yet he will remember and requite all your present and following wickedness, and hath a dreadful judgment in store for you.



Upon thee; for part of this Assyrian storm fell in Ahaz’s reign, 2Ch_28:20.



Upon thy father’s house; upon thy sons and successors, the kings of Judah; the accomplishment whereof is recorded in their history.



Days, to wit, evil days, by a synecdoche; or calamities; for days are oft put for the events which happen in them, and especially for judgments or tribulations, as Job_18:20 Psa_137:7 Isa_9:4 Oba_1:12.



The day that Ephraim departed from Judah; when ten tribes revolted from thy father’s house, and set up another opposite kingdom.



Even the king of Assyria; who may well be called their plague or calamity, as he is called the rod of God’s anger, Isa_10:5. Or, with (as this Hebrew particle oft signifies) the king, &c.; or, by the king, &c. And king is here put for kings, as Dan_2:37 8:21.