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In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it. See also: 2 Kings 15:372 Kings 16:1Psalms 83:3-5David’s house was told, “Syria is allied with Ephraim.” His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind. See also: Isaiah 7:13Isaiah 8:12Proverbs 28:1Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller’s field. See also: 2 Kings 18:17Isaiah 36:2Romans 9:27Tell him, ‘Be careful, and keep calm. Don’t be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking torches, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. See also: Isaiah 35:4Deuteronomy 20:3Lamentations 3:26Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have plotted evil against you, saying, See also: Psalms 83:3-4Zechariah 1:15Nahum 1:11“Let’s go up against Judah, and tear it apart, and let’s divide it among ourselves, and set up a king within it, even the son of Tabeel.” This is what the Lord GOD says: “It shall not stand, neither shall it happen.” See also: Isaiah 8:10Lamentations 3:37Isaiah 46:10-11For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people. See also: Isaiah 17:1-3Genesis 14:15Hosea 1:6-10The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.’” See also: Hebrews 11:6Romans 11:202 Chronicles 20:20The LORD spoke again to Ahaz, saying, See also: Isaiah 8:5Isaiah 1:13Isaiah 10:20“Ask a sign of the LORD your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.” See also: Isaiah 37:30Isaiah 38:7-82 Kings 19:29But Ahaz said, “I won’t ask. I won’t tempt the LORD.” See also: Deuteronomy 6:16Acts 5:92 Kings 16:15He said, “Listen now, house of David. Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also? See also: Isaiah 43:24Malachi 2:17Hebrews 3:10Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. See also: Matthew 1:23Isaiah 9:6Luke 1:31He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good. See also: Isaiah 7:22Amos 5:15Matthew 3:4For before the child knows to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken. See also: Isaiah 8:4Deuteronomy 1:39Jonah 4:11The LORD will bring on you, on your people, and on your father’s house days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah, even the king of Assyria. See also: Isaiah 8:7-8Isaiah 10:5-62 Chronicles 32:1-33It will happen in that day that the LORD will whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. See also: Isaiah 5:26Deuteronomy 7:20Deuteronomy 1:44They shall come, and shall all rest in the desolate valleys, in the clefts of the rocks, on all thorn hedges, and on all pastures. See also: Isaiah 2:19Jeremiah 16:16Micah 7:17In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard. See also: Isaiah 8:7Ezekiel 5:1-4Isaiah 10:15It shall happen in that day that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep. See also: Isaiah 5:17Jeremiah 39:10Isaiah 37:30It shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter, for everyone will eat butter and honey that is left within the land. See also: Isaiah 7:152 Samuel 17:29Matthew 3:4It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, will be for briers and thorns. See also: Isaiah 5:6Song of Songs 8:11-12Matthew 21:33People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns. See also: Genesis 27:3All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending out of oxen, and for sheep to tread on.” See also: Zephaniah 2:6Isaiah 7:21-22Isaiah 13:20-22
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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)17 notes
Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Isaiah 7:1
This 19th-century note uses polemical language; read it in the light of the note at the top of this panel.
Ver. 1. Achaz. This must be seventeen years later than the former prediction. 4
K. xv. 37. The kings of Syria and Israel jointly attacked Juda, but were forced to raise the siege of Jerusalem.
The next year they came separately, and committed the following ravages. The news of their junction threw all into confusion. v. 2. Isaias was then sent to inform the king, that the designs of his enemies should not take effect. Yet the two kings obtained each a victory. But they could not dethrone Achaz, as they intended. C. --- Paine traduces this prophecy as a lie, asserting that they succeeded. What! did they make Tabeel king? v. 6. The Israelites would not even keep the captives who had been taken. 2 Chron. xxviii. 15. Watson, let. 5.
--- Achaz had been made captive before. But now the Lord defeated the projects of his enemies, as he will the conspiracy of heretics against his Church. W.
↑ 1Isaiah 7:3
Ver. 3. Jasub. This name was mysterious: Shear-Jashub means "the rest shall return" from Babylon, or be converted under Ezechias. C. x. 22. C. --- Prot. Go
"thou, and Shear-Jashub, thy son, at the end of the conduit," &c. H.
↑ 3Isaiah 7:4
Ver. 4. Tails. So he styles the two kings in derision. The distrust of Achaz was punished by the loss of many of his subjects, but he was not dethroned, having engaged the Egyptians and Assyrians to attack his enemies. v. 17.
↑ 4Isaiah 7:6
Ver. 6. Tabeel. Chal. "whom we shall think proper." He will not so much as name him.
↑ 6Isaiah 7:8
Ver. 8. Rasin. Both the king and his capital shall be ruined. --- And five.
Capellus (p. 497.) would read six and five; or, in eleven years time. But (C.) Ephraim was led captive twenty-one years after, and the Cutheans took their place when sixty-five years had elapsed. A. 3327. Usher
--- Most people date from the prophecy of Amos to the ruin of Samaria, just sixty-five years. The former solution seems preferable. C.
↑ 8Isaiah 7:9
Ver. 9. Continue. Sept. "and will not understand, even the Lord," &c. H. --- Heb.
"and since you do not believe," (C.) or "because you are not confirmed" by a miracle. Grot.
↑ 9Isaiah 7:11
Ver. 11. Above. Require it to thunder, (1 K. xii. 17.) or the earth to open. Num.
xvi. 28. C.
↑ 11Isaiah 7:12
Ver. 12. Lord. He was afraid of being forced to relinquish his evil ways. S. Jer.
--- Though an idolater, he knew he ought not to tempt God.
↑ 12Isaiah 7:14
Ver. 14. Virgin, halma, (H.) one secluded from the company of men. Alma in Latin signifies "a holy person," and in Punic "a virgin." The term is never applied to any but "a young virgin." If it meant a young woman, what sort of a sign would this be? S. Jer. --- It was indeed above the sagacity of man to declare that the child to be born would be a boy, and live till the kings should be destroyed. But the prophet undoubtedly speaks of Jesus Christ, the wonderful, &c. (c. ix. 5.) as well as of a boy, who should prefigure him, and be an earnest of the speedy destruction of the two kings. He was to be born of Isaias, (c. viii. 4.) and of all the qualities belonging to the true Emmanuel, only that regards him, which intimates that the country should be delivered before he should come to years of discretion. v. 16. C. Diss. Bossuet --- The Fathers generally apply all to Christ. --- Called. Or shall be in effect. C. i. 26. C. --- The king hardly trusted in God's mercies, whereupon the incarnation of Christ, &c.
is foretold. W.
↑ 14Isaiah 7:15
Ver. 15. Honey. Like other infants. C. --- The new baptized received some to remind them of innocence. Tert. cor. 3. --- Christ shall be true man. M.
↑ 15Isaiah 7:16
Ver. 16. Good. Being arrived at the age of discretion, Achaz engaged the Assyrians to invade Damascus. Its citizens and four tribes were carried into captivity the year following. Phacee only survived another year, A. 3265. This was a pledge, that what regarded the son of the virgin would also be accomplished. C. --- Land of the enemy. C. 4 K. xvi. M.
↑ 16Isaiah 7:17
Ver. 17. Assyrians. His aid shall prove the greatest scourge, (2 Par. xxviii. 20.) while the Idumeans and Philistines shall also ravage the country. Ib. 17. Achaz has vainly trusted in man.
↑ 17Isaiah 7:18
Ver. 18. Of Egypt. The Idumeans, &c. dwell on the borders. C. v. 26. Yet many explain this of the victories of Nabuchodonosor and Nechas.
↑ 18Isaiah 7:20
Ver. 20. Razor. Or cut off with scissors all the hair, as was done with lepers, (Lev. xiv. 9.) and Levites. Num. viii. 7. The country shall be pillaged, and all shall be in mourning. C. --- The men shall be despised as no better than women and cowards. S. Jer. Theod. --- Hired. With large sums. C.
↑ 20Isaiah 7:22
Ver. 22. Land. Pastures shall be so large, (M.) though uncultivated, the greatest part of the inhabitants being removed.
↑ 22Isaiah 7:23
Ver. 23. Pieces. Sicles. This was the price of the best vineyards. Cant. viii. 2. C.
--- Now people may hunt in them. H. --- The subjects of Achaz were much reduced. C.
↑ 23Isaiah 7:24
Ver. 24. Thither. The hedges shall be rooted up (H.) or neglected, so that cattle may graze. M.
--- Two sorts of mountains are specified; some for vineyards, and others for pasture. C.
↑ 24License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses