1Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.
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Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.
And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. …
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! …
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)In these verses we have a prophecy of the successes of the king of Assyria against Damascus, Samaria, and Judah, that the two former should be laid waste by him, and the last greatly frightened. Here we have, I. Orders given to the prophet to write this prophecy, and publish it to be seen and read of all men, and to leave it upon record, that when the thing came to pass they might know that God ha…
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