Isaiah 8:12

"For the LORD spoke this to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,"

Key Reflection

This verse highlights God's directive presence and authority over His prophet, emphasizing that divine guidance comes through a powerful and unyielding influence. By instructing the prophet not to follow the ways of the rebellious people, it underscores the contrast between God’s righteous path and the sinful choices of those who reject his message.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Say ye not -Do not join in their purposes of forming a confederacy. Do not unite with the king and the people of Judah in their alarms about the threatened invasion by the kings of Syria and Samaria, and in their purpose to form an alliance with the king of Assyria. The reason why they should not do this, he states inIsaiah 8:13, where he exhorts the nation to put confidence in the Lord rather than in man. There has been, however, great diversity in the interpretation of this passage. The Septuagint renders the wordקשׁרqesher, ‘confederacy,’ by the wordσκληρόνsklēron- ‘Everything which this people say, is hard.’ The Syriac, ‘Do not say, rebellion,’ etc.

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