Isaiah 7:16
14 Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.
15 By the time He knows enough to reject evil and choose good, He will be eating curds and honey.
For before the boy knows enough to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.
17 The LORD will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since the day Ephraim separated from Judah—He will bring the king of Assyria.”
18 On that day the LORD will whistle to the flies at the farthest streams of the Nile and to the bees in the land of Assyria.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- For before the boy knows enough to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.
- KJV
- For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
- WEB
- For before the child knows to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.
- ASV
- For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings thou abhorrest shall be forsaken.
- DARBY
- For before the child knoweth to refuse the evil and to choose the good, the land whose two kings thou fearest shall be forsaken.
- BLB
- For before the youth knows to reject the evil and to choose the good, the land that you dread will be forsaken because of the two of her kings.
- ÅB
- for før gutten skjønner å forkaste det onde og velge det gode, skal det land hvis to konger[^6] du gruer for, ligge øde.
- OTB
- for før gutten vet å forkaste det onde og velge det gode, skal landet til de to kongene du frykter bli forlatt.
- B1930
- for før gutten skjønner å forkaste det onde og velge det gode, skal det land hvis to konger du gruer for, ligge øde. / < JES 7, 1.>
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 8:4
For before the boy knows how to cry ‘Father’ or ‘Mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.”
Read in contextDeuteronomy 1:39
And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.
Read in context2 Kings 16:9
So the king of Assyria responded to him, marched up to Damascus, and captured it. He took its people to Kir as captives and put Rezin to death.
Read in contextHosea 5:9
Ephraim will be laid waste on the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel I proclaim what is certain.
Read in contextAmos 1:3–5
This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they threshed Gilead with sledges of iron.
Read in context2 Kings 15:29–30
In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and he took the people as captives to Assyria.
Read in contextIsaiah 9:11
The LORD has raised up the foes of Rezin against him and joined his enemies together.
Read in contextJonah 4:11
So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”
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